Radiology Flashcards
Radiology Towards…
Health,Health Care Promotion,
Environment
The art and science that deals with the study and use of ionizing radiation and other imaging modalities to determine the absence or presence of disease.
Radiologic Technology
is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Health
are the tools that clinicians and individuals use to treat illness.
Health Technologies
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..
Innovation in Technology
defined as a totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of organisms.
Environment
Most modern technological processes produce unwanted byproducts in addition to the desired products
Industrial Waste Pollution
has given humanity unheard of power to manipulate earth, air, fire and water
Modern Technology
darken the sky produce temperatures that match those of the sun and destroy a modern city in minutes.
Atmospheric Pollution
The link between the basic human needs and the environment is obvious: our physical needs demand access to natural resources such as land, water and air, which, with the aid of radiant energy from the sun, generate plants and animals
Renewable Energy
But human survival and development also require non-renewable resources such as minerals and fossil fuels which are being depleted by an ever increasing human population. All of these resources, renewable and non-renewable, are to be found on a thin layer of the Earth’s surface known as the ________
Biosphere
Each wave of technology creates a set of waste previously unknown by humans: _____, _____, ____
toxic waste, radioactive waste, electronic waste.
◼ Pollution is a serious problem in technologically advanced society.
(From acid rain, to global warming, to _______, _____)
Chernobyl 1986 and Bhopal 1984
Consists of a complex combination of external physical circumstances that affect and influence how all living things grow, develop, and ultimately survive.
Environment
The more subtle effects include debates over long-term effects. _______,_______,_____
global warming, deforestation, natural habitat destruction, coastal wetland loss.