Principles of Health

Vocab for the upcoming test

Ambulatory

Serving patients who can walk

Specialties

Feilds of studies or professional work

Outpatients

Patients/studies who dont require hospitalitation but are under physician care

Occupational Therapy

Helps give people skills for the job of living satisfying lives

Recreational Therapy

Uses play, recreation, and leisure activities to improve functioning and primary goal is to develop leisure skills.

Hydrotherapy

Treatment that uses water therapy for disease and injury

Prosthetics

Artificial body parts

Immunizations

orally given or injections that are given to make disease organisms harmless to the patient

Rehabilitation

Process that helps people who have been disabled to recover many original abilities

Communicable

Capable of passing directly/ indirectly from one person to another

Maternal

Relating to/ from the mother

Licesing

Giving permission to carry on certain activities and define the activities they are authorized to do

Enviornmental Sanitation

Methods used to keep the enviornment clean and promote health

Podiatry

Diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders

Hypertension

Elevation of blood pressure

Endowments

Gifts of property or money given to a group or organization

Managed care

Healthcare plan/system that seems to control medical costs by contacting with networks

Refer

To send to

Audiology

Study of hearing disorders

Obstetrics

Branch of medical science concerned with childbirth

Orthopedics

Medical Specialty concerned with correcting problems with the skeletal system

Chiropractic

Method of adjusting the segments of the spinal column

Urology

Study of urine and urinary organs in health and disease

Therapeutic

Pertaining to treatment of disease or injury

Facilities

Places designed/ built to serve a special function

Diagnostic

Determing the nature of a injury by examining

Surgical

Repairing/ Removing a body part by cutting

Chronic

Continuing over many years and for a long time

Psychiatric

Pertaining to the mind

Geriatric

Deals with peoples problems and diseases of old people

Convalesence

Gradual recovery of health and strength after illness

WHO

World health orgnanization

VA

Veterans Administration hospitals

U.S. Public Health Service

Federal Agency whose mission is to protect, promore, and advance the health/safety of the nation

State Psyciatric Hospitals

Serve the mentally ill

USDHHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

NIH

National Institure of Health, they conduct and support medical research

CDC

Centers for Disease Controls, they monitor and work to prevent disease outbreaks

FDA

Food and Drug Administration, they assure the safety of foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, drugs, and more

OSHA

Occupatinoal Safety & Health Association, they impose the safety and health to prevent illness and death in the workplace.

AHRQ

Agency & Healthcare research & Quality, they improve the quality of healthcare in America

County Hospitals

Provide care for the ill & injured, especially the patients who need financial help to get care

Laboratory

Provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, & measurments csn be preformed

Public Health Departments

Provide sevices to local communities

Senior centers

Clinics that have special services for geriatric patients