Unit 1 Test Review

What is holistic healthcare?

• Use of Video/ audio and computers system to provide health care

• Care of elderly

• Providing care in the home

• Care that promotes physical, emotional, and social well-being

What is an apothecary?

• Early Pharmacy

• Roman Church

• Doctor's office

• Medical School

Who is also called the "Father of Medicine"

• Hippocrates

• Robert Koch

• Sir Alexander Fleming

• Benjamin Franklin

Which group of people was responsible for the earliest healthcare records?

• Chinese
• Egyptians
• Romans
• Greeks

Operated by federal, state and local government agencies. Ex. public hospitals and Veteran Affairs (VA).

• Government hospitals
• Extended care facilities
• Optical centers
• WHO

To pay for the costs of health care, most people rely on ...?

• Health Departments
• Health Insurance Plans
• Healthy eating
• HIPPA

Amounts that must be paid by the patient for medical services before the policy begins to pay. 

• Co-insurance
• HMO
• Deductible 
• PPO

Requires that specific percentages of expenses are shared by the patient and insurance company. 

• Co-insurance
• Deductible
• Co-payment
• Medigap

Mrs. Lyon is 90 years old. She is a very active woman who likes to cook, read, play cards and take short walks with her walker. The long term care facility that would be best suited to meet her needs is a/an:

• nursing home

• skilled nursing facility

• assisted living center

• Alzheimer's unit

Agencies that provide care for the terminally ill who usually have life expectancies of six months or less. 

• St. Jude Research Hospital 
• Hospice
• Shelters
• Generally hospitals