Mapeh Flashcards
-This is the study of living things. It is a broad field that covers the structures, life cycle, functions, and interactions of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and protists.
Biology
-This is the study of the composition of matter. Knowledge of chemistry is required for health courses because this will help you understand chemical reactions that are required for the body to function properly.
Chemistry
- This is the study of mechanics and the different forms of energy such as heat, light, sound, electricity, and magnetism. An understanding of physics is required in a health career because the human body is a machine and its processes are affected by various forms of energies
Physics
-This course exposes you to the diversity of life on earth.
Biology
-study plants and animals from the cellular level to the organism and its relationship to its environment.
Biologists
- This course focuses on the chemical processes involved in living things.
Biochemistry
-allows individuals to work as experts on product and drug development.
Mastery of
biochemistry
-This allows you to specialize in oral health, specifically the care of the teeth and gums.
Dentistry
- This course trains you to respond to emergency situations such as sudden illness such as stroke heart attack, and accidents.
Emergency
Medical
Technician
-This course teaches students to understand and perform laboratory tests that will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
Medical
Technology
-This course trains you to understand maternal health.
Midwifery
- are trained to deliver babies and counsel women on their reproductive and sexual health.
Midwives
-A course in nutrition creates experts in nutrition principles, food safety and food sanitation.
nutritionist
- This course trains you to provide direct care to patients admitted in a medical facility and help keep the facility safe and conducive to healing.
nursing
- A course on ___
produces professionals who are
experts in evaluating a patient’s ability to perform basic life activities such as walking in a hallway, sitting on chair, and writing a letter
Occupational Therapy
___ Work to advise doctors and other
nealth care workers on possible drug interaction. when managing patients receiving multiple drugs.
Pharmacy
- Pharmacists
-A course on focuses on treating bodily
injuries with emphasis on restoring the full range of motion of muscle groups.
Physical Therapy
-This course trains you to understand human behavior and to help other people cope with life stress.
psychology
is a broad field of specialization that covers
community health, population health, environmental health, global health, health policy, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
Public Health -
- A course in
allows you to be in charge of
the maintenance and operation of mechanical ventilation systems in hospital intensive care units and operating rooms.
Respiratory Therapy
- involves the evaluation and treatment of human language communication disorders.
Patients of speech pathologists include people with stroke, cerebral palsy, learning and reading difficulties, and those with physical defects that prevent them from pronouncing words correctly.
Speech
Pathology