History
Around 400 CE, progress in the study of medicine slowed dramatically during this historical period.
What is the Dark Ages?
What type of insurance provides wage replacement and benefits for employees injured at work?
What is Worker's Compensation?
These hospitals provide treatment for severe, acute medical problems but not long-term care.
What are short-stay hospitals?
This U.S. agency is responsible for regulating medications and ensuring their safety.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This ancient civilization’s doctors were the first to study the pulse as a means of diagnosis.
Who are the Chinese?
This Jewish physician of the Middle Ages stressed the importance of a healthy lifestyle
Who is Maimonides?
This managed care plan provides prepaid, comprehensive healthcare at a flat rate.
What is an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)?
These facilities provide end-of-life care, focusing on comfort rather than cure.
What are hospice facilities?
This international organization responds to worldwide disease outbreaks and health crises.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This woman founded one of the first secular nursing schools in London in 1860.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Factories during this era allowed the mass production of medical equipment.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This law requires insurance companies to cover people regardless of preexisting conditions.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Give two examples of specialty centers.
What are trauma centers, surgical centers, urgent care centers, dialysis centers, etc.?
This government agency is charged with protecting the health of Americans by controlling disease outbreaks.
What is the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)?
He is known for his work in psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The discovery of this antibiotic in the 20th century revolutionized the treatment of bacterial infections.
What is Penicillin?
Medicaid is paid for by these two sources.
What are state and federal taxes?
This type of facility has increased in number to meet the needs of aging populations.
What are long-term care facilities?
This U.S. agency enforces workplace safety and health standards.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
These two scientists discovered insulin in the early 1920s.
Who are Frederick Banting and Charles Best?
This medical practice, used in the Middle Ages, was performed by barbers and often involved cutting into a vein to remove blood
What is bloodletting?
What does PPO stand for, and how is it different from an HMO?
What is Preferred Provider Organization, which allows more provider choice than an HMO?
Doctors’ offices are often categorized as this type of care because they serve as the first point of contact.
What is primary care?
Give two examples of volunteer health agencies.
What are the American Cancer Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association, National Association of Mental Health, or American Red Cross?
This pair of scientists discovered radium, leading to radiation therapy for cancer.
Who are Marie and Pierre Curie?