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- 3. Offer treatment to individuals with psychiatric and behavioral disorders, including assistance with crises, medication management, counseling, and monitoring of activities of daily living
- 5. Provides housing, meals, and personal care to individuals who need help with daily living activities but do not need daily nursing care.
- 10. Relieves but does not cure
- 14. Provides palliative (relieves but does not cure) care and support to patients who are expected to die within 6 months and their families
- 16. A method of treatment developed by a German physician in the early 1800s based on the idea of stimulating the body's own healing responses
- 17. Patients who do not require hospitalization. Provided by the many diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation facilities that account for most patient care activities.
- 20. Based on the belief that the body can protect itself against dis- ease if the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine, is in good order.
- 21. It involves using pressure or friction on the body.
- 22. The transplantation of normal genes into cells in place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders
- 26. Comprises methods other than those traditionally used in Western medicine but that are used together with Western medicine
- 28. Condition marked by a decline in memory and/or other thinking skills, caused by damage to the nerve cells in the brain.
- 29. Rather than treating diseases and conditions based on standard treatments used on all patients for the specific condition, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment will be based on each patient's own biochemical makeup.
- 30. The promotion of health through preventive measures and the practice of good health habits
- 33. Focuses on pathology and curing disease.
- 36. Permission is required in advance for certain procedures
- 37. Involves the insertion of tiny needles into specific points in the body to relieve energy blocks.
- 38. Collected vital statistics such as births and deaths
- 39. Disorders caused by mental or emotional factors
- 40. The most common dementia, accounting for 60% to 80% of cases. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease that eventually affects basic body functions and results in death.
- 41. Taking medications correctly
- 42. Focusing on their possibilities rather than on their limitations.
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- 1. Significant impacts on not only the reason for hospital inpatient stays but also on the availability of hospital beds for inpatient stays.
- 2. Provides a variety of living arrangements that support lifestyles as they change from independent living to the need for regular medical and nursing care.
- 4. Based on the belief that pressure on the nerves leaving the spinal column causes pain or dysfunction of the body part served by that nerve.
- 6. Skilled nursing facility (SNF): Provides nursing and rehabilitation services on a 24-hour basis. Includes regular medical care for patients with long-term illnesses and those recovering from illness, injury, or surgery.Intermediate nursing care facility (INCF): Provides personal care, social services, and nursing supervision for at least 8 hours per day. It provides care for individuals who do not require 24-hour nursing but are unable to care for themselves.
- 7. Drugs that contain addictive substances, such as heroin
- 8. The term used when a health care provider offers a combination of Western medicine with complementary and alternative medicine.
- 9. Provides nursing and rehabilitation services on a 24-hour basis. Includes regular medical care for patients with long-term illnesses and those recovering from illness, injury, or surgery.
- 11. Provides 24-hour personal care and supervision for a small number of residents (five is typically allowed by state regulations) in a family-type home or similar setting.
- 12. They change in ways that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of antibiotics to destroy them
- 13. Rather than treating diseases and conditions based on standard treatments used on all patients for the specific condition, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment will be based on each patient's own biochemical makeup.
- 15. Provides personal care, social services, and nursing supervision for at least 8 hours per day.
- 18. Facilities that provide a variety of outpatient services, some of which were previously provided by the hospitals.
- 19. The most famous Greek physician of ancient times
- 23. Medicine A general term to designate the belief that the traditional view of medicine must be expanded.
- 24. Differences in the health status of different groups of people.
- 25. refers to practices used instead of Western medicine
- 27. Americans have limited access to good housing, livable wages, quality schools, and other factors that contribute to good health.
- 31. Treatment that uses drugs or other substances to identify and attack specific types of cancer cells with less harm to normal cells
- 32. For patients who do not require hospitalization.
- 34. (hospitalized) basis, depending on their needs.
- 35. Federally funded program for low-income individuals.