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History of Health Care Flashcards

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in humans, the extent of an individual’s continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his or her environment

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HEALTH

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one of man’s greatest adversaries

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SICKNESS

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Study of a______________ _____________ that show medical procedures and surgical tools uncovered from anthropological sites of ancient societies

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ANCIENT PICTOGRAPHS

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Serious diseases were of primary interest to early humans, but they were not able to treat them __________

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EFFECTIVELY

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Diseases were attributed to the influence of ________ ____________

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MALEVOLENT DEMONS

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Diseases were believed to project an _______ ______, _ ______, __ _ _____ into the body of the unsuspecting patient

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alien spirit, a stone, or a worm

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Diseases were warded off by _________, dancing, magic charms and talismans, and various other measures

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incantations

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Make the body ______________ to the demon by beating, torturing and starving the patient

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uninhabitable

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  • Alien spirits are expelled by potions that caused violent vomiting, or could be driven out through a hole cut in the skull
  • Remedy for insanity, epilepsy and headache
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TREPPANING

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Surgical procedures practiced in ancient societies:
- Cleaning and treating wounds by ______(burning or searing tissue), poultices, and sutures
- Resetting dislocations and fractures, and using _______ to support or immobilize broken bones

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  • cautery
  • splints
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Additional therapy included laxatives and ______ to treat constipation and their gastrointestinal diseases

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enemas

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a heart stimulant extracted from foxglove

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DIGITALIS

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Systems of medicine, based on magic, folk remedies, and elementary surgery, existed before the coming of the more advanced Greek medicine about the __________________

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6th century B.C.

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MEDICINE ORIGIN
Latin word “medicus” which means

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PHYSICIAN

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  • Science and art of diagnosing, treating and preventing disease and injury
  • It is a healing art
  • Aims to help people become more active and live longer and happier lives with less suffering and disability
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MEDICINE

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In the past 100 years
Medicine has developed weapons to fight disease effectively

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  • Drugs
  • Vaccines
  • Surgical procedures
  • Instruments
  • Sanitation and nutrition
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To identify or diagnose a specific disease or injury:
- Physicians, pharmacists, and other health care professionals utilize ____
- Requires scientific knowledge and technical skills
- Apply these abilities in innovative ways

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clues

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At the turn of the 20th century (1900):
- Men and women were frail by age 40
- Life expectancy was _________
- Effective treatment for diseases were so scarce

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47.3 years

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By the end of the 20th century:
- Medical advances
- Life expectancy increased to ______

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76 years

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Today
- People in their 80s and 90s are _________ and physically active
- Medical expansion has been expensive

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independent

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  • 11.6 million people work in health care in other countries
  • ________ physicians, 2.1 M nurses and 160,000 dentists
  • Work in health care services, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients
  • Research, teaching or administration of medical facilities
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778,000

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  • Assisting in the selection of appropriate drug therapy
  • Preparing, compounding and manufacturing drugs for individualized patients
  • Dispensing and packaging the prescribed drug products including proper labeling
  • Advising and educating patients on proper use of drugs
  • Monitoring the outcome and responses of patients to the effect of drugs, both beneficial and adverse
  • Serving as a community resource person on drug and health information
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EARLY FUNCTIONS OF A PHARMACIST

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Is the component of pharmacy practice with entails the direct interaction of pharmacist with the patient for the purpose of caring for that patient’s drug related needs

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Pharmaceutical Care

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  • Cure of a disease
  • Elimination or reduction of a patient’s symptomatology
  • Slowing or arresting of a disease process
  • Preventing a disease/symptomatology
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Objectives of Pharmaceutical Care

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