Lesson 53 Vocab
Lesson 54 Vocab
Lesson 55 Vocab
Health Careers
Grab Bag
100
General health care
What is primary care
100
A responsible person who guides another person.
What is a mentor?
100
Organized community efforts to prevent disease and injury and promote health
What is public health?
100
eye care
What is optometrists
100
The most common nutritional disorder in the world
What is iron deficiency
200
Requires a person to stay overnight at a facility
What is inpatient care
200
Providing service without pay.
What is volunteering?
200
A deficiency in calories, protein, vitamins, or minerals as a result of inadequate diet and frequent infections.
What is undernutrition?
200
skin care
What is dermatologists
200
The amount that must be paid by the individual before the insurance company will pay any claims
What is deductible
300
For people 65 years of age and older and for people who have received Social Security disability benefits for 2 or more years
What is medicare
300
A profession or an occupation in the medical field for which one trains.
What is a health career?
300
Unnatural enlargement of the thyroid gland
What is goiter
300
treat mental disorders
What is psychiatrists
300
What does CDC stand for
What is Center for Disease Control and Prevention
400
For people with low incomes
What is medicaid
400
The qualifications a person must have
What are credentials?
400
A serious, life threatening disease that is transmitted by the bite of a female mosquito
What is malaria
400
male and female urinary systems and male reproductive system
What is Urologists
400
Name 2 types of hospitals
What is private, voluntary, government, teaching
500
A business that has a contract with a group of health care providers who agree to provide services at a reduced rate
What is Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
500
A person who has completed the certification process recommended for health educators.
What is a certified health education specialists?
500
Undernutrition that is the result of inadequate calorie intake to satisfy the body's nutritional needs
What is protein-energy malnutrition (PEM)
500
nervous system disorders
What is neurologists
500
Name 4 types of health care facilities
What is hospital, inpatient care, outpatient care, ambulatory surgery center, urgent care, physician's office, dental offices, health center, labratories, extended care facility, home health care, hospice