Chapter 9

Question 1

Numbers collected for the population of live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, pregnancy, and any change in civil status that occurs during an individual lifetime.

Answer 1

Vital Statistic

Question 2

A postmortem examination to determine the cause of death or to obtain physiological evidence, as in the case of a suspicious death.

Answer 2

Autopsy

Question 3

A public official who investigates and holds inquests over those who die from unknown or violent causes: he or she may or may not be a physician, depending on state law

Answer 3

Coroner

Question 4

A physician who investigates suspicious or unexpected deaths.

Answer 4

Medical examiner

Question 5

A divison of medicine that incorporates law and medicine and involves medical issues or medical proof at trials having to do with malpractice, crimes and accidents.

Answer 5

Forensics

Question 6

The sharing of power among national. state and local governments

Answer 6

Federalism

Question 7

To install a drug into the body of a patient

Answer 7

Administer

Question 8

A federal law passed in 1986 that created a no fault compensation program for citizens injured or killed by vaccines, as an alternative to suing vaccine manufactures and providers.

Answer 8

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

Question 9

A no fault federal system of compensation for individuals or families of individuals injured by childhood vaccination

Answer 9

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)

Question 10

A no fault program to provide benefits and or compensation to certain individuals, including health care workers and emergency respondents, who are injured as the result of the administration of smallpox countermeasures, including the smallpox vaccine.

Answer 10

Smallpox Emergecy personnel Protection Act ( SEPPA)

Question 11

A federal law passed in 1974 requiring physicians to report cases of child abuse

Answer 11

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

Question 12

A 1987 federal act that defines elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation but does not deal with enforcement

Answer 12

Amendments to the Older Americans Act

Question 13

Also called Laci and Conners Act a 2004 federal law that provides for the prosecution of anyone who causes injury to or the death of a fetus in utero

Answer 13

Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Question 14

A federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees drug quality and standardization and must approve drugs before they are release for public use.

Answer 14

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Question 15

A branch of the U.S. Department of Justice that regulates the sale and use of drugs

Answer 15

Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA)

Question 16

The federal law giving authority to the Drug Enforcement Administration to regulate the sale and use of drugs

Answer 16

Controlled Substances Act

Question 17

To issue a medical prescription for a patient

Answer 17

Prescribed

Question 18

To deliver controlled substances in some type of bottle, box or other container to a patient

Answer 18

Dispense