Chapter 18: Becoming an Informed Health Care Consumer

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Across
  1. 5. the practice of disseminating or supplying inaccurate health information, unreliable health care, or ineffective health products for the purposes of defrauding another person.
  2. 7. insertion of fine needles into the body to alter electroenergy fields and cure disease.
  3. 8. a system of medical practice in which allopathic principles are combined with specific attention to postural mechanics of the body.
  4. 9. name used to describe the molecular structure of a drug.
  5. 13. health providers health care providers who generally see patients on a routine basis, particularly for preventive health care.
  6. 15. the trend toward individuals taking increased responsibility for prevention or management of certain health conditions.
Down
  1. 1. willingness to follow the directions provided by another person.
  2. 2. specific patented name assigned to a drug by its manufacturer.
  3. 3. a person who earns money by purposely marketing inaccurate health information, unreliable health care, or ineffective health products
  4. 4. manipulation of the vertebral column to relieve misalignments and cure illness.
  5. 6. marketing of unreliable and ineffective services, products, or information under the guise of curing disease or improving health; quackery.
  6. 7. a system of medical practice in which specific remedies (often pharmaceutical agents) are used to produce effects different from those produced by a disease or injury.
  7. 10. the use of minute doses of herbs, minerals, or other substances to stimulate healing.
  8. 11. an ancient form of healing in which herbal preparations are used to treat illness and disease.
  9. 12. common or nonproprietary name of a drug.
  10. 14. a system of treatment that avoids drugs and surgery and emphasizes the use of natural agents, such as sunshine, to correct underlying imbalances.