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Viruses can mutate and exchange genetic information

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Who concern about influenza pandemics

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Disease outbreak over a wide geographic area affecting high proportion of population

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Naturopaths

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Homopath

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Chinese Medicine

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Ayurvedic

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Holistic approach

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Integrative health care

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Alternative therapies

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18. Complimentary and Alternative Methods of Health Care

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18. Complimentary and Alternative Methods of Health Care

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Complementary therapies

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Focus on disease prevention and quality of life

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Balance between physical, social, and mental helath

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Decreases need for home health visits

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Decreases need for home health visits

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Decreases need for medical center visits

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Use of video, audio, and computers to provide medical/health care services

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States must maintain a registry of qualified individuals

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Federal regulation for long-term care and home health care

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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987

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Baby boomers entering geriatric age

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Percentage of elderly population growing rapidly

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Care for the elderly

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Services provided in a patient's home

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Services provided in a patient's home

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Industry grew rapidly when DRGs were initiated

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Outpatient services

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Combination of services

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Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs)

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Aging population

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Technological advances

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Reasons for increasing costs

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Control rising cost of health care and achieve maximum benefit for every dollar spent

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Threat of bioterrorism with the use of biologic agents as weapons

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Embryonic stem cell and cloned cell research

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Human Genome Project

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Average life span of 60 to 80

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First open-heart surgery in the 1950s

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Health Care Plans

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Rapid Growth in health care

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Average life span of 40 to 65 years

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Invention of stethoscope, nurse training programs

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Infection control

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Industrial Revolution
- Development of machine
- Major Progress in medical science

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Apothecaries (early pharmacists) made, prescribed and sold medications

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Average life span of 40 to 50

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Small pox vaccine discoverd

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Invention of microscope

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Knowledge of human body greatly decreased

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Causes of diseases was still a mystery

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Human distraction to view body organs

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Means Rebrith

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Average life span of 20 to 35 years.

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In the 1300s an epidemic of bubonic plague killed nearly 75% of the population of Europe and Asia

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Interest in the medical practices of Greek and Romans

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Romans Implemented use of sewers for waste and aqueducts for clean water

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Hippocrates and other physicians in ancient Greece established the importance of diet and cleanliness in preventing illness and disease.

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Chinese believed in the need to cure the spirts and nourish the body

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Health records were first recorded by the Ancient Egyptians

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Illness and disease were believed  to be caused by evil spirts and demons or as a punishment from the gods

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Herbs utilized in the past for both food and medications today.

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The things we do now for health care came from ancient times.