Ch.1 U.S. Health Care
Across
- 3. a bacteria that is drug resistant and causes serious wound and blood infection, also causes pneumonia.
- 7. A program that provides a range of medical services for people with low incomes and resources.
- 12. Health care investments or interventions. Prevent death after a heart attack through in hospital care.
- 15. A short term infection usually due to an dramatic onset
- 16. When people from around the world connect through business, economics, and social issues.
- 18. Ensures protection of privacy. Improves patent care by ridding of medical error. Lowers healthcare costs. Reduces paperwork.
- 20. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
- 22. Accessible simultaneously at multiple locations by multiple providers. Standard medical terms more likely.
- 23. How long a person can expect to live. Focuses on the number of size and body cells.
- 24. A fatal infectious disease. Symptoms may include fever and severe internal bleeding. Can spread through the contact of infected body fluids.
- 25. services provided a one's local pharmacy or primary care physician to reduce the risk of health conditions from spreading. EX: immunizations, or screen tests.
- 27. Protects America from health, safety, and security threats both foreign and in the U.S.
- 28. can be caused by bacteria, virus, fungus, or parasite. Can pass from one organism to another.
Down
- 1. responsibility of coordinating international efforts related to health.
- 2. knowledge to improve health and deliver developments in other sciences such as chemistry, physics, and engineering.
- 4. providing consequences to change behavior, or how environmental events change behavior
- 5. Develops and leads a national prevention strategy and makes recommendations to the President and Congress for federal policy changes that support public health goals.
- 6. health insurance provided to low income children whose family's income is to high to qualify for medicaid in their state.
- 8. a duration that lasts longer than 3 months. A reversible disorder. The "long haul",
- 9. Gives individuals and small businesses the ability to compare available health plans and find the one the fits their budget.
- 10. A law that is made up of two pieces "Healthcare Reform" or "Obamacare". Expands health insurance
- 11. the death of a baby before it's first year of life.
- 13. Blood poisoning.
- 14. Sequences all of our DNA and locates all of the functionally important sequences, such as genes.
- 17. a flu infection in birds that can mutate to infect humans
- 19. affects a person's ability to communicate, to interact effectively with others, or to see things from another's perspective
- 21. a persons way of living.
- 26. Number of years a person had based on the average person born in a specific year.