History Time Periods
History People
Private Health Care Facilites
Government Agencies
Health Insurance Plans
100
Believed in treating the body as a whole and used acupuncture techniques.
What is the Ancient Chinese?
100
Discovered the Microscope.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
100
Health care facility, varies in size and type, can be private, religious, nonprofit or government.
What is a hospital?
100
Sponsored by the United Nations and addresses health problems throughout the world.
What is WHO?
100
Medical assistance program, funded by each state, benefits low income, children who qualify and physically disabled or blind.
What is Medicaid?
200
Rebirth of the science of medicine and artists used dissection to draw the human anatomy.
What is the Renaissance?
200
Quoted, "If we can find the cause, we can find the cure."
Who is Hippocrates?
200
Provides vision examinations, prescribe eye glasses and check for the presence of eye diseases.
What is an optical center?
200
Establishes and enforces standards that protect workers from job-related injuries and illnesses.
What is OSHA?
200
Federally funded, Provides health care for individuals over the age of 65.
What is Medicare?
300
Carl Landsteiner classified the ABO blood groups and Crick and Watson described the structure of DNA.
What is the 20th Century?
300
Arab physician who suggested that blood was the cause of many infectious diseases.
Who is Rhazes?
300
Provide care for terminally ill persons with life expectancies of 6 months of less.
What is Hospice?
300
Regulates food and drug products sold to the public.
What is FDA?
300
Health Insurance plan where the insured is required to use only the specific affiliated health care providers.
What is an HMO?
400
Believed that illness was caused by supernatural spirits and used trepanation to treat insanity.
What is the Primitive Times?
400
Developed the vaccine for smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
400
Services include physical, occupational, recreational, speech and hearing therapy.
What is Rehabilitation?
400
National agency that deals with the health problems in the US.
What is USDHHS?
400
National Health Care plan.
What is PPACA or Obamacare?
500
Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing and Ignaz Semmelweis encouraged physicians to wash their hands.
What is the 19th Century?
500
Proved that microorganisms cause disease.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
Perform prenatal screening tests, check for genetic abnormalities and birth defects and identify medical options when a birth defect is present.
What is Genetic Counseling Centers?
500
Concerned with causes, spread and control of diseases in populations.
What is CDC?
500
Most people rely on this in order to pay for the costs of health care.
What is Health Insurance Plans?