Health Policy
The CDC stands for...
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
This individual's role is to diagnose and treat diseases affecting the teeth and gums.
What is the role of a dentist?
The number one way of reducing/ preventing the spread of communicable diseases.
What is washing your hands?
The department in which Health Services Management (HSM) falls under at the university.
What is the Department of Nursing and Allied Health?
The acronym SWOT.
What are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats?
The doctor that work with children.
What is a pediatrician?
Identification of an injury or disease.
What is a diagnosis?
The largest organ in the body.
What is skin?
When a health care professional fails to treat a patient in line with ethics and the accepted medical standard of care
What is medical negligence?
The person who oversees the doctors, operational procedures, and services in a healthcare organization/ facility.
What is a health administrator?
The death rate in a population.
What is mortality rate?
The use of video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical and/or healthcare services.
What is telehealth/ telemedicine?
The legal document giving another individual the ability to make decisions on their behalf.
What is a POA/ Power of Attorney?
The person who puts patients to sleep before undergoing surgery.
What is an anesthesiologist?
The science of studying how diseases affect populations and why.
What is epidemiology?
The nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes.
ex. where someone lives, learns, or works
What are the social determinants of health (SDOH)?
The federal system of health insurance for people over 65 and for certain younger people with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
The person who comes and draws blood.
What is a phlebotomist?
The doctor who studies, treats, and diagnosis patients with cancer.
What's an oncologist?
The disease causing microorganisms.
What are pathogens?