IHC Chapter 2: Current Health Care Systems and Trends

Opioids are dangerous because...

• Medications that relieve schizophrenic behaviors

• Medication that reverses pandemics

• Medication that can cause cysts

• Medication that relieves pain; can become addictive

When someone has dementia, they...

• began to recover their memory

• become dependent on others

• decline in memory and/or other thinking skills

• they depend on their jobs for excitement

What is the definition of a pandemic?

• a disease that covers a couple of states at the same time

• rapidly spreading disease that attacks many at the same time

• they are viral statistics

• it is a disease that can affect your respiratory tract

Why do people get acupuncture?

• to relieve migraines

• in order to get opioids

• to treat addictions

• it is a treatment involving the insertion of tiny needles into the body

A large live-in facility that provides housing, meals, and personal care is called a/an _______________.

A psychiatric...

• treats patients with speech exercises

• can also be considered a personal trainer

• is a nursing home with 24/7 care

• treats patients for mental and behavioral disorders

Louis Pasteur developed the germ theory thanks to his associate Richard Hem?

• False

• True

The typical lifespan in ancient times was under 60 years

• False

• True

Medicare covers all the costs of home health services

• True

• False

The CDC is supported and financed by taxpayers instead of federal donations

• True

• False