Improved health care Flashcards
True or False:
The provision of clinics in rural and urban areas has helped to educate people about basic hygiene.
True
What is important about people being educated on how addictions can negatively impact health?
If people understand this, they may give up habits such as smoking, taking drugs, drinking alcohol and over-eating.
Medical laboratory equipment has ________ (become better).
Medical laboratory equipment has IMPROVED.
Are medicines available to treat specific diseases and infections?
Yes
What will antibiotics do?
Antibiotics kill bacteria and speed up the healing process.
Nowadays there are more __________ who have received training in attending to ________ victims.
Nowadays there are more PARAMEDICS who have received training in attending to ACCIDENT victims.
What do ambulances have?
Ambulances have equipment which can stabilize patients until they reach hospitals.
What have these improvements meant?
That the death rate has decreased and life expectancy has increased. The result is population growth.
