Lesson 1: Introduction to Radiologic Sciences and Health Care Flashcards
Study and use of ionizing radiation and imaging modalities to determine the absence/presence of disease
Radiologic Technology
— Uses small amounts of radioactive materials
— Can pinpoint molecular activity within the body
— Theranostics
Nuclear Medicine
— State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
— Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
— Reflects cultural, economical, ethical spiritual, and moral framework of society
— Had positive and negative impacts
Health
Simple treatment and Preventive measure
Vaccines
Diarrheal diseases
Oral Dehydration Therapy
Simple treatments and Preventive measures example
— Oral Dehydration Therapy
— New Contraceptive Methods
— Curative Drugs
— Early Detection/Screening Methods
— Tools that clinicians and individuals use to treat illness
— Most patients and consumers demand the latest health technology because “new means better”
Health Technologies
Will continue to increase commercial access to patients and consumers, access by patients and consumers to products and services online
Direct to Consumer (DTC) promotion and Internet
Will play a bigger role in shared decision-making and self care
Patients and Consumers
Technology ____ life
Complicates
Promise to transform health care over the next decade by giving clinicians and patients the tools that enable earlier diagnosis and better treatment of disease
Innovations in Technology
Example of negative side effect of technology
— Forms of entertainment have social effects (academic performance)
— Increases probability of diseases (obesity)
— Totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of organisms
— Complex combination of external physical circumstances that affect and influence how all living thigs grow, develop, and survive
— Affects the physical, social, and cultural conditions of every community living within it
— Forever changing and evolving
— Exists in a constant state of flux due to organisms that live and interact within the environment
Environment
Most modern technological processes produce unwanted by products in addition to the desired products called
Industrial Waste and Pollution
Some technologies are designed first for
Economic and Ergonomic effects