Field of Health Science wk1

Question 1

accreditation

Answer 1

official recognition from a professional association that an educational program meets minimum educational standards for occupation

Question 2

alternative, complementary, integrative therapies

Answer 2

healthcare practices and

treatments that minimize or avoid the use of surgery and drugs

Question 3

career clusters

Answer 3

groups of similar occupations and industries that share a core set of basic knowledge and skills for all workers

Question 4

career pathways

Answer 4

smaller groups of specialized occupations within a career cluster that require more specific sets of knowledge, skills and training

Question 5

genomic medicine

Answer 5

personalized medical care that uses a patient’s unique combination of genes and c chromosomes to prevent illness and maintain health

Question 6

holistic care

Answer 6

Therapies that treat the patient as a whole person after assessing the individuals physical,social, mental, and spiritual well being

Question 7

nanotechnology

Answer 7

a field of science e that manipulates individual atoms and molecules to create devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies allow

Question 8

National health science standards

Answer 8

Standards determined by the national consortium for health science education, which describe the skills that workers need to succeed in healthcare careers

Question 9

regenerative medicine

Answer 9

a form of medical care in the united state of medical care that creates living tissue to replace tissue or organ functions lost due to age, disease injury, or birth disorder

Question 10

western medicine

Answer 10

the most common form of medical care in the united states, which uses medication and surgery to treat the signs and symptoms of illness