HEALTH Flashcards
(15 cards)
-It caters to specific population with various health needs.
Health Center
-An individual who are licensed to practice medicine and other allied health program.
Health Professional
-Any concept, step, or advice that various sources give to aid the health status of an individual.
Health Information
-A trained professional who provides people with healthcare.
Health Provider
-Offered in place of traditional medicine.
Alternative Medicine
-Views diseases as a manifestation of an alteration in the process which the body naturally heals:
itself.
Naturopathy
- A method used to apply an inverted glass with burning cotton, on specific points of body to relieve muscle pain.
Ventosa cupping therapy
- Use hands to apply pressure on certain points of the body.
Acupressure
- It is a form of energy medicine where long tin needles are inserted to specific parts of the body to affect the energy flow.
Acupuncture
-Similar to acupuncture, reflexology focuses on treating specific disorders through massaging of the soles of the feet.
Reflexology
- Any form of a health fraud, in any advertisement, promotion, or sale of products and services that have not been scientifically proven safe and effective (Meeks, et al, 2011).
QUACKERY
-An individual that has little or no professional qualifications to practice medication .
Quack
-Includes cures, treatments, and remedies of various health conditions that are drugless or bloodless in nature.
Medical quackery
-Makes use of miraculous gadgets (such as dials, gauges, electrodes, and blinkers) that are believed to be cure certain health conditions.
Device Quakery
-Involves promotion of food and fads and other nutritional practices that claim to be all - • natural. These are believed to have beneficial properties of multiple plants in one product
Nutrition quackery-Involves promotion of food and fads and other nutritional practices that claim to be all - • natural. These are believed to have beneficial properties of multiple plants in one product
