History of Health Care Flashcards
in humans, the extent of an individual’s continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his or her environment
HEALTH
one of man’s greatest adversaries
SICKNESS
Study of a______________ _____________ that show medical procedures and surgical tools uncovered from anthropological sites of ancient societies
ANCIENT PICTOGRAPHS
Serious diseases were of primary interest to early humans, but they were not able to treat them __________
EFFECTIVELY
Diseases were attributed to the influence of ________ ____________
MALEVOLENT DEMONS
Diseases were believed to project an _______ ______, _ ______, __ _ _____ into the body of the unsuspecting patient
alien spirit, a stone, or a worm
Diseases were warded off by _________, dancing, magic charms and talismans, and various other measures
incantations
Make the body ______________ to the demon by beating, torturing and starving the patient
uninhabitable
- 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
TREPPANING
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
- cautery
- splints
Additional therapy included laxatives and ______ to treat constipation and their gastrointestinal diseases
enemas
a heart stimulant extracted from foxglove
DIGITALIS
Systems of medicine, based on magic, folk remedies, and elementary surgery, existed before the coming of the more advanced Greek medicine about the __________________
6th century B.C.
MEDICINE ORIGIN
Latin word “medicus” which means
PHYSICIAN
- 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
MEDICINE
In the past 100 years
Medicine has developed weapons to fight disease effectively
- Drugs
- Vaccines
- Surgical procedures
- Instruments
- Sanitation and nutrition
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
clues
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
47.3 years
By the end of the 20th century:
- Medical advances
- Life expectancy increased to ______
76 years
Today
- People in their 80s and 90s are _________ and physically active
- Medical expansion has been expensive
independent
- 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
778,000
- 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
EARLY FUNCTIONS OF A PHARMACIST
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
Pharmaceutical Care
- Cure of a disease
- Elimination or reduction of a patient’s symptomatology
- Slowing or arresting of a disease process
- Preventing a disease/symptomatology
Objectives of Pharmaceutical Care
