Health Care Trends Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Cost Containment | Controls rising cost of health care & achieves max. benefit for every dollar spent |
Geriatric Care | Care for the elderly |
Home Health Care | Services provided at patient's home |
OBRA | Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 Federal regulation for long-term and home health care |
Telemedicine | Use of video, audio, & computers to provide medical/health care services |
Wellness | State of optimum health Balance between physical, mental, & social health |
Physical Wellness | Diet, exercise |
Emotional Wellness | Understanding personal feelings |
Social Wellness | Showing concern, affection, respect |
Mental & Intellectual Wellness | Using common sense, being creative, curious, etc |
Spiritual Wellness | Using values, ethics, morals to find meanings & purpose to life |
Holistic Health Care | Treats the whole body, mind, & spirit Promotes body's natural healing power |
Complementary Health Care | Conjunction with conventional therapies |
Alternative Health Care | In place of biomedical therapies |
Integrative Health Care | Uses mainstream & CAM therapies |
Holistic Approach | Belief that an effect on one part of the body, affects the whole body |
Ayurvedic | Re-establish balance in body through diet, exercise, body cleansing, & health of body, mind, & spirit |
Chinese medicine | Energy flows along meridians |
Chiropractic | Treatment & prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system |
Hipnotist | psychological state marked by a level of awareness different to ordinary conscious state |
Homopath | Based on idea that the body has ability to heal itself |
Noninvasive | Not cutting into body |
Pandemic | Disease outbreak over wide geographic area |
Epidemic | Infectious disease affecting a large number of people within a community at the same time |
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