Health and Medicine
Across
- 5. a network of business enterprises that influences medicine and health care
- 9. a social institution that deals with illness, injury, and other health problems
- 10. a harmful overindulgence in or dependence on a drug or other chemical
- 11. a social role that excuses people from normal obligations because of illness
- 12. The prevention, management, and treatment of illness
Down
- 1. long-term, or lifelong illnesses that develop gradually or are present from birth
- 2. the state of physical, mental, and social well-being
- 3. Examines how societal factors affect the distribution of disease within a population
- 4. a process that defines a non medical condition or behavior as an illness, disorder, or disease that requires medical treatment.
- 6. a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain, and impairs memory, thinking, and behavior
- 7. Any physical or mental impairment that limits a person’s ability to perform a basic life activity
- 8. Illnesses that strike suddenly and often disappear rapidly.