Foundations of Health Science
This field focuses on preventing disease, maintaining health, and improving quality of life.
What is health science?
This term describes a state of physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is health?
This branch of science studies the structure of the body and its parts.
What is anatomy?
This system is responsible for movement, protection, and support.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
This body system’s main role is breaking down food and absorbing nutrients needed for energy and growth.
What is the digestive system?
Healthcare relies on this approach because no single healthcare professional can meet all patient needs.
What is teamwork?
These factors influence a person’s health beyond genetics or medical care.
What are determinants of health?
This term describes the body’s ability to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
This system acts as the body’s first line of defense.
What is the integumentary system?
A primary purpose of this system is hormone production related to sexual development.
What is the reproductive system?
This is the main reason health science is considered a broad field rather than a single career.
What is because it includes many different careers and specialties working together?
Access to doctors, insurance, and preventive care falls under this determinant.
What is healthcare access and quality?
This branch of science studies how body parts function.
What is physiology?
These two systems work together to deliver oxygen to body cells.
What are the respiratory and cardiovascular systems?
This system protects the body by recognizing and responding to foreign substances.
What is the immune system?
The term for the idea that certain skills are shared by all healthcare workers, regardless of their specific job.
What are overlapping/transferrable skills?
This determinant includes income, employment, and financial stability.
What is economic stability?
This is why healthcare workers must understand both anatomy and physiology.
What is to recognize and respond to problems in the body?
This system uses hormones to regulate body processes more slowly but for longer-lasting effects.
What is the endocrine system?
This system helps maintain fluid balance by removing wastes from the blood.
What is the excretory (urinary) system?
These are the 5 branches of health science.
What are: Diagnostic Services, Therapeutic Services, Health Informatics, Support Services, and Biotechnology Research & Development?
This determinant involves how the physical surroundings affect overall health.
What is the neighborhood & built environment?
This is why no body system can function completely on its own.
What is system interaction/connection?
These two systems work together to maintain homeostasis by breaking down nutrients, then delivering them throughout the body.
What is the digestive and circulatory system?
This system supports immune function and keeps body fluid levels in balance.
What is the lymphatic system?