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Three steps to being a wise health care consumer:

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  1. ) partner with your healthcare provider
  2. ) share in healthcare decision making
  3. ) become skilled at obtaining healthcare
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Western medicine

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Based on scientific principles; modern

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Traditional medicine

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Based on observation and theories; alternative medicine

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Physicians assistant (PA)

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Work under the physician but are trained in many aspects of patient care; care more about patient

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Nurses: Registered Nurse (RN)

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Trained in many aspects of patient care

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Nurse practitioner (NP)

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RN with additional training and skills to provide many care services

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PT (physical therapy)

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Trained to restore function, improve mobility, and relieve pain of those suffering from injury or disease

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OT (occupational therapy)

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Help people in home/ workplace perform daily tasks

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Private insurance

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Fee-for-service, traditional type of health care

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Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)

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Prepaid health insurance plans that are an alternative to private insurance

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Medicare

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Aged over 65 or have a specific disability to qualify

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Affordable care act (2014) or Obamacare

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Requires everyone to have healthcare by 2014

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Medicaid

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Provides insurance for low-income people

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14
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Why healthcare continues to rise

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Malpractice insurance, Americans are living longer, unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, overdeveloped medicine capabilities and expensive technologies, over trained/ over specialized physicians, administrative overhead

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Abstinence

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100% effective if followed

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16
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Condom (male/female)

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Effective if not broken

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17
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Diaphragm (birth control)

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86-94% effective, blacks sperm from reaching ovaries

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Fertility awareness (birth control)

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Being aware is the best way to help preventing anything

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19
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Birth control pill

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91-99% effective, regulates menstrual cycle, decreases cramps, and if taken correctly can be 100% effective

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20
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Patch (birth control)

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91% effective; releases hormones into the body to prevent pregnancy

21
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Ring (birth control)

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91-99% effective; inserted into vagina and releases hormones

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Intrauterine device (IUD) (birth control)

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Prevents pregnancy for 3-5 years; releases hormones into vagina

23
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Progestin-only (birth control)

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Mucus in the cervix thickens, makes difficult for sperm to enter uterus and fertilize eggs

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Foam/gel (birth control)

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Most effective when combined with other birth control forms

25
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Tubal ligations (birth control-women)

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Fallopian tubes are cut, burned, or blocked; 99.5% effective

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Vasectomy (birth control-men)

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Cutting of each vas deferens in half; not effective immediately- takes about 3 months to clear the remaining sperm

27
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Basal metabolism

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Basic amount of energy needed to stay alive (1,100 calories)

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Proteins

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Help strengthen the body

A complete protein contains 20 amino acids

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Essential proteins

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Through diet or body (can’t make them)

30
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Nonessential proteins

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Not required

31
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Carbohydrates

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Glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose

Complex: better carbs- starch (digestible), fiber (not digestible)

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Lipids (fats)

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Good fats: omega 3, Omega 6

33
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Free radicals

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Electronically charged particles that connect with others to form carcinogens; these form from broken down fats

34
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Opiates

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Analgesic, pain relief

Ex: codeine, heroin, methadone

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Sedatives

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Cough suppressant, sedation, tension relief

Ex: Amytal, Seconal, doriden

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Minor tranquilizers

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Anxiety relief, muscle tension

Ex: Librium, xanax

37
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Alcohol

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No medical benefits

Ex: beer, wine, liquor

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Inhalants

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Muscle relaxant, anesthetic

Ex: amyl nitrate, botyl nitrate, nitrous oxide

39
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Stimulants

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Weight control, narcolepsy, fatigue, and hyperactivity in children

Ex: Benzedrine, methadrine, preludin

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Cocaine

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Local anesthetic, pain relief

Ex: cocaine hydrochloride

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Cannabis

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Relief of glaucoma, asthma, nausea accompanying chemotherapy

Ex: marijuana, hashish

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Hallucinogens

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No medical benefits

Ex: LSD, peyote, mescaline

43
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Nicotine

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No medical uses

Ex: in tobacco

44
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Familial disease

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A condition more often occurs in family members than is expected by chance alone. May be genetic (ex: cystic fibrosis) or environmental (ex: chicken pox)

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Hereditary disease

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Conditions capable of being passed from parent to offspring through genes

Ex: hemophilia and baldness

46
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Genetic counseling

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Advice to parents concerning chances of genetic disorders in a future child

47
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Homeopathy

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The treatment of disease with small doses of natural substances that would produce symptoms of disease in a healthy person

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Naturopathy

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Alternative medicine based on the belief that treatment will occur without drugs by techniques such as diet control, exercise and massage

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