Government programs
The amount of money you must pay for your own healthcare before your insurance company begins contributing.
What is an insurance deductible?
The federal organization responsible for food and drug safety.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
A federal health insurance plan designed primarily for retirees.
What is Medicare?
German doctor discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms called pathogens?
Who is Robert Koch?
The first female Nobel Prize winner, famous for her work with radioactive materials. Radium
Who is Marie Curie?
The monthly payment made in exchange for a health insurance policy.
What are health insurance premiums?
The federal organization tasked with understanding and preventing epidemics of disease in the United States.
What is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
A federal health insurance plan, administered by the states, generally intended for low-income households and those with permanent disabilities.
What is Medicaid?
Considered the father of antiseptic surgery, a British doctor who insisted on sterilization of surgical instruments and handwashing.
Who is Joseph Lister?
The most famous nurse in history, responsible for establishing the nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The money paid at time-of-service for each doctor's visit, regardless of the venue.
What is a copayment?
Agency responsible for supporting medical records in mental, addictive, and physical disorders.
What is the National Institutes of Health? (NIH)
The federal organization established in the 1700s tasked with promoting public health in the United States.
What is the US Public Health Service?
The developer of the first vaccine (smallpox), who additionally developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Managed care plan that provides prepaid, comprehensive healthcare at a flat rate, needs PCP for referral.
What is an HMO? (Health Maintenance Organization)
Agency responsible for providing leadership on global health issues. International public health.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
A type of health insurance that allows you to pick from a large list of preferred providers.
What is a PPO? (Preferred Provider Organization)
A microorganism that is responsible for causing disease.
What is a pathogen?
The founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Law passed in 2010 for major regulatory reform of US healthcare.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
A federal entity that is responsible for ensuring the physical welfare of employees in the workplace.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
These agencies receive support from donations, gifts, and fundraisers.
What are Volunteer Health Agencies?
This Scottish doctor discovered the first antibiotic. What was the antibiotic?
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Penicillin
The researchers whose work helped lead to the discovery of DNA. Name two of them.
Who is Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins?