The Evolution of Healthcare
This type of medicine, developed in Europe, emphasizes diagnosis and treatment of disease with drugs, surgery, and technology.
What is western medicine?
This type of medicine studies a person’s genes to personalize treatment.
What is genomic medicine?
This issue focuses on whether patients can pay for healthcare services.
What is affordable healthcare?
Health Science is one of the 16 of these educational groupings for careers.
What are career clusters?
This word means a process that ensures a school or program meets official quality standards.
What is accreditation?
Early beliefs about illness often blamed disease on these instead of germs.
What are evil spirits or supernatural forces?
Using stem cells to repair or replace damaged tissue is known as this.
What is regenerative medicine?
This issue focuses on whether patients can find and receive healthcare when they need it.
What is accessible healthcare?
This shows a series of related jobs from entry-level to advanced, such as CNA → LVN → RN → Nurse Practitioner.
What is a career ladder?
In early medicine, people often relied on plants and natural remedies. Today, these are often used in alternative or complementary therapies. Give one modern example.
What is acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage therapy, or chiropractic care?
The acceptance of this type of research helped scientists create vaccines faster, including the COVID-19 vaccine.
What is mRNA research?
This tiny technology is used to detect and deliver treatments at the cellular level.
What is nanotechnology?
The U.S. healthcare system often struggles with rising costs, unequal access, and ________.
What are quality issues?
This type of education happens after high school, such as college or technical school.
What is postsecondary education?
A nursing assistant wants to move up to become a registered nurse. This step-by-step process of job growth is called a ________.
What is a career ladder?
This type of care emphasizes treating the “whole person” — mind, body, and spirit — not just symptoms.
What is holistic care?
Doctors returning to more personal, relationship-based patient care is often called going “back to the ______.”
What is basics?
This national framework defines what students should know and be able to do in health science careers.
What are the National Health Science Standards?
The training or licenses that prove a worker’s qualification to practice in healthcare are called these.
What are credentials?
Name two major issues that the U.S. healthcare system is currently trying to address.
What are affordable healthcare, accessible healthcare, quality of care, rising costs, or health disparities?
In healthcare history, these were major medical advancements that changed patient survival: anesthesia, antibiotics, and ________.
What are vaccines?
This technology trend in medicine includes electronic health records, telemedicine, and advanced imaging.
What is technology and medicine?
This type of therapy is used in addition to Western medicine, such as acupuncture or herbal medicine.
What is complementary therapy?
These four components — education, job skills, personal traits, and work experience — help healthcare workers succeed.
What is knowledge and skills?
This healthcare approach blends Western medicine with complementary and alternative therapies to provide the best overall patient care.
What is integrative medicine (or integrative therapy)?