HTH 150 Exam 1 questions and answers
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job - correct answer ✔✔what you show up to for work
career - correct answer ✔✔Spans your lifetime and included your education, training, professional
memberships, volunteering and your full history of paid work
occupation - correct answer ✔✔describes a type of work with associated tasks, education and training,
typical wages, work settings, and more
profession - correct answer ✔✔a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive
academic preparation or the whole body of persons engaged in a calling who adhere to specific
standards
health promotion - correct answer ✔✔reduce negative behaviors and promote positive change
disease prevention - correct answer ✔✔-actions or behaviors designed to keep people from getting sick
-diagnosis and treatment
-rehab
multiskilled - correct answer ✔✔cross-trained to perform more than one function, often in more than
one discipline
transferable skills - correct answer ✔✔skills acquired in one job that are applicable in another job
discipline - correct answer ✔✔a branch of knowledge or learning such as nursing, medical assisting,
surgical technology, etc.
people skills or soft skills - correct answer ✔✔personality characteristics that enhance your ability to
interact effectively with other people
,interpersonal skills - correct answer ✔✔ability to interact with other people
hard skills - correct answer ✔✔duties of your technical job that employers will assume you can perform,
can be learned and improved over time
soft skills - correct answer ✔✔which kind of skill are more difficult to acquire and change?
work ethic - correct answer ✔✔attitudes and behaviors that support good work performance
traits - correct answer ✔✔characteristics or qualities related to one's personality
consumers - correct answer ✔✔people who purchase or use a product or service
stakeholders - correct answer ✔✔people with a keen interest in project or organization, may be end-
users of a product or service
primary care - correct answer ✔✔first and most generalized care
gatekeepers - correct answer ✔✔people who monitor the actions of other people and who control
access to something
prevenitive services - correct answer ✔✔actions taken to avoid a medical condition
continuity - correct answer ✔✔continuous, uninterrupted, and connected
secondary care - correct answer ✔✔specilaist
tertiary care - correct answer ✔✔higher level of specialty care in the hospital
, quaternary care - correct answer ✔✔extension of tertiary care, highly specialized and unusual
therapeutic services - correct answer ✔✔Focus: changing the health status of the patient
Provide: treatment, couseling, education
diagnostic servies - correct answer ✔✔Focus: using tests and evaluation
Provide: detection or illness or injuries
health informatics - correct answer ✔✔Focus: patient data, health, financial
Provide: organization of information, easy access to information
Provide: a therapeutic environment for delivery of care
Biotechnology research and development - correct answer ✔✔Focus: bioscience research and
development for human health
Provide: new treatments, devices to assist patients, diagnostic tools
allied health professionals - correct answer ✔✔trained in a specialty area that is auxilary or supportive
to physicians (training and degrees vary)
public health - correct answer ✔✔protects and improves the health of individuals, families,
communities, and populations, locally and globally
health communication - correct answer ✔✔the study and use of communication strategies to inform
and influence individual and community decisions that affect health
Complementary and alternative medicine (also referred to as nontraditional, complementary or
integrative) - correct answer ✔✔What is CAM?
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