Chapter 2 - Vocabulary

2. Disparities: Differences in the health status of different groups of people.
5. Progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain’s nerve cells resulting in memory loss, impaired thinking and language skills, and changes in behavior.
6. Disorders, including physical illness, caused by mental or emotional factors.
9. Health care systems, practices, and products that have not traditionally been performed by practitioners of Western medicine; practices used instead of conventional medicine.
11. Decline in memory and/or other thinking skills.
13. Health care practices based on the belief that all aspects of the individual—physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and environmental—contribute to states of health and disease.
15. Medicine: Combines treatments from conventional medicine with complementary and/or alternative medicine for which there is high-quality scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness; also called integrated medicine.

1. Approval from an insurance company prior to receiving certain health care services, for the purposes of determining medical necessity and cost effectiveness.
2. A facility or service that offers palliative (relieves but does not cure) care and support to dying patients and their families.
3. Medicine Health care practices, products, and approaches to health care that have not traditionally been performed in conventional medical offices; practices used together with conventional medicine.
4. Health care services that do not require hospitalization; also referred to as ambulatory services.
7. Medicine: The prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease based on each patient’s own biochemical makeup. (Also called precision medicine.)
8. A federally funded insurance program that is part of the Social Security Administration and provides health insurance for people aged 65 and older and others, such as the severely disabled, who qualify for social security
10. Promotion of health through preventive measures and the practice of good health habits; when the body is in a state of homeostasis.
12. Federally funded but state-administered insurance plan for individuals who qualify due to low income.
14. Admitted to, and treated within, a hospital.