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Pandemic is a outbreak of diseases occurring in geographic areas. A major consider in today's time is that pandemics will become more and more frequent. Being that you can travel anywhere where a lot different places carry danger diseases.

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Wellness is the balance relationship between physical, mental, and social health. During this time many people are recognizing how important it is to exercise, eat healthy meals, and visit their doctor often.

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The term telemedicine involves the use of video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical and/or health care services. This helped improve the service EMS can give to injured person when they arrived.

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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)

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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)

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This act led to the development of many regulations regarding long-term care and home health care. The OBRA also requires continuing education, periodic evaluation of performance, and retraining and/or testing if a nursing assistant does not work in a health care facility for more than 2 years.

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Geriatric Care was care for the elderly which grew rapidly. This is caused in part by the large number of individuals who are experiencing longer life spans because of advances in health care. Many people now enjoy life spans of 80 years or more.

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Nursing care, physical and occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, social services, nutritional and food services, and other types of care can be provided in the home environment.

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Home Health Care became very popular. Home care is also another form of cost containment because it is usually less expensive to provide this type of care.

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I believe this term was very important being that rarely anyone was rich but everyone needed health care so cost containment helped the less fortunate and the government a lot.

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In the health care field this term means trying to control the rising cost of health care and achieving the maximum benefit for every dollar spent.

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This time period was scary for many people being that new viruses, such as the H1N1 or swine flu virus, could mutate and cause disease in humans. But also it was proven to be very successful in creating computers and rapid methods of sharing new knowledge.

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Some major threats to health care exist in this century.

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Early in the 21st century, the completion of the Human Genome Project by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided the basis for much of the current research on genetics.

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All of the developments  that occurred in the 20th century increase the average life span to 60 to 80 years.

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The 20th Century was very important because during this time a major development to understanding the human body occurred in the 1950s when Francis Crick and James Watson described the structure of DNA and how it carries genetic information. That made a lot of things clear for physicians and helping people became easier

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Dr. Harry Plotz developed a vaccine against typhoid in 1903.

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During the 20th Century Physicians were able to use new machines such as X-rays to view the body. Also other medicines, including insulin for diabetes, antibiotics to fight infections, and vaccines to prevent diseases, were developed.

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The 19th Century was important because it was a time that many people created many inventions that helped a lot with science such as the telescope, stethoscope and over 400 different type of microscope.

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The Royal College of Surgeons (medical school) founded in London in 1800

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First successful blood transfusion was performed on humans in 1818 by James Blundell

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In the 19th century also known as the Industrial Revolution, many improvements occurred because of the development of machines and many access to books.

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The Average life span increased to 40 to 50 years.

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The events in this time period introduced many new ways of finding cures and helping with the function of the human body.

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Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), a French surgeon, known as the Father of Modern Surgery

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Also Bartholomew Eustachian identified the tube between the ear and throat. In which allowed other physicians to see how the body functioned.

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Many historical event happened during this period such as physicians gained an increased knowledge of the human body. William Harvey described the circulation of blood.

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The Renaissance was a very important time to many people. During this time many things have changed, two important people made significant improvements to science by drawing the body accuracy for physicians to have as a diagram when performing distinctions.

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The life span increased to an average age of 30 to 40 years during the Renaissance

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During the 1350-1650 AD Renaissance period Artists Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) used dissection to draw the human body more realistically

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The Renaissance was a awesome time for the African American culture. But it was also known as the  “rebirth of the science of medicine.” The development of the printing press resulted in the publication of medical books that were used by students at medical universities.

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While the Dark Ages and Middle Ages were a terrible time but in the Middle Ages a renewed interest in the medical practices of the Romans and Greeks. I believed that during that time people came to realize that the diseases and illness aren't going to go away so someone has to start the practices of the human body.

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Average life span was 20-30 years old

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During the Dark Ages 400-800 AD prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease

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Epidemics of smallpox, dysentery, typhus, and the plague were rampant

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After the fall of the Roman empire the study of medicine stopped but individuals again started to live in unsanitary conditions.

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Also the ancient Egyptians were the first people to record health records. Many could not read so knowledge was limited to very few people. Most of the records were recorded on stones.

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Average life span was 20 years.

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This event was very important because people had to find out truth about diseases and illness Being that they were so religious that would be the first thought that maybe the person sinned but that event was a starting point for studying the human body.

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As time evolved people began to find that evils spirits weren't the cause so they began to study the human body and make observations about how it functions.

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Many people during the Ancient Times believed that diseases and illness came from evil spirits. To get rid of the illness or diseases tribal witch doctors had ceremonies to drive out the evil spirits.

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I believe this events was very important because it was a start to finding medicines that would help with sickness.

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Before drug stores were around people often used  many herbs and plants as medicine and food as well.