HOH 1
Discovered the 1st vaccination.
Who is Edward Jenner?
The medical insignia called the caduceus originated from the symbol of a ______________
What is a snake?
The agency that deals with health in the United States.
Who is DHHS?
An agency that ensures that food and cosmetics are safe and that medication and medical devices are safe and useful.
What is FDA?
Organizations that manage, negotiate and contract for healthcare with the primary goal of keeping healthcare costs down.
What is managed care?
A government medical research organization.
What is NIH?
Discovered reflective microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
A single person
What is an individual?
A subscriber pays to an insurance company to have insurance coverage.
What is a premium?
What are laboratories?
Performed tracheotomies.
Who is Galen?
International agency sponsored by the United Nations and is the directing and coordinating authority on international health,
What is WHO?
Known as the "Father of Microbiology" who created the process known as pasteurization.
What is Louis Pasteur?
Insurance coverage
What is a policy?
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens.
Who is Robert Koch?
What EMS stands for.
What is emergency medical services?
Disease-producing microorganisms.
What are pathogens?
Which of the following programs provides health insurance to people who are at least 65 years old, are disabled, or have permanent kidney failure?
What is Medicare?
Discovers penicillin.
What is Alexander Fleming?
Insurance that covers accidents, injuries, or diseases that occur in the workplace.
What is worker's compensation?
Discovered science of radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
The American Lung Association is what type of agency.
What is a volunteer, nonprofit agency.
Performed cataract surgery, amputations and practiced phlebotomy.
Who are barber-surgeons?
Hospital that provided care for military personnel and their dependents.
What are hospitals by government organizations?
Frenchwomen denied practice to medicine.
What is Jacoba Felicie?
If a person does not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay for care, a hospital may
What is treat the person and increase fees for all patients?
What agency is responsible for monitoring and preventing the outbreak of disease?
What is the CDC?
Care provided for patients who have terminal illnesses.
What is hospice?
Allowed books to be published.
What is the printing press?
The goal of these hospitals is not to produce a profit for shareholders.
What are non-profit hospitals?