Medicine - Modern Peg Test Flashcards
What does modern mean?
The present or recent times
What happened in 1907?
All births registered, health visitors and medical checks on children at school
When did the first medical cure come about (Salverson 606) and who was responsible?
1909 and Ehlich
When was the National Insurance Act?
1911
What happened in 1919?
The Ministry of Health
When did Fleming discover penicillin?
1928
When was Penicillin mass produced?
WW2
Which event was a catalyst for the mass production of penicillin?
D-Day
What year was the NHS introduced? What was this exactly a century after?
1948 and the first public health act
When was the structure of DNA discovered?
1953
The Human Genome Project was completed in 1982. True or False?
False, it was completed in 2001
What is a lifestyle factor?
A lifestyle factor is a factor relating to your lifestyle that causes illness
Give 3 examples of a lifestyle factor?
Smoking, heavy drinking and stress.
The development of real democracy increased the demands from working people for the government to make changes to improve health care - what is this?
Political Attitudes
What did the NHS do?
It gave medical treatment to the lower classes who couldn’t afford medical treatments
What does life expectancy mean?
The average period that a person may expect to live
What do you call a tiny microorganism responsible for colds, flu and chicken pox?
Virus
What are genes made out of?
DNA
What are sulphonamide drugs?
Antibacterial drugs used to treat bronchitis and pneumonia
What do we call bacteria that have developed immunity?
Superbugs
What is staphylococci?
Bacteria found in our skin
What is the formal name for blood poisoning?
Septicemia
True or false? Biochemistry is the study of the chemical process that occur in living things?
True
What is diagnosis?
The identification of the nature of an illness by examination of the symptoms
What is a camera inside a flexible tube passed into the body to see inside the body
Endoscope
What does an officer of health do?
Look after the public health of an area
True of false? Chemotherapy treats disease using raduim
False, that’s radiotherapy
True of false? Chemotherapy treats disease using chemicals
True, used for cancer
What is a transfusion?
The transfer of blood from a person
Is the immune system the body’s defence system against disease?
Yes
What does immunotherapy do?
Treats disease through stimulation of the immune system
What is a medical treatment that uses normal genes to replace defective ones
Genetherapy
