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DHO Health Science Updated 8th Edition By Simmers - Test Bank
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,CHAPTER 01 HISTORY AND TRENDS OF HEALTH CARETRUEFALSE
1. Diagnostic related groups (DRGs) are one way Congress is trying to control costs for government
insurance plans such as Medicare and Medicaid.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
2. Hippocrates developed an organized method to observe the human body and recorded the signs
and symptoms of many diseases.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
3. A pandemic of the bubonic plague killed three quarters of the population of Europe and Asia in
the 16th century.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
4. The most rapid growth in health care occurred during the 20th century.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
5. Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci used dissection in order to draw the human body more
realistically.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
,6. Holistic health care promotes physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual well-being.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
7. Telemedicine uses video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical and/or health care
services.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
8. Complementary therapies are methods of treatment used in place of biomedical therapies.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
9. Every patient has the right to choose or refuse any type of health care.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
10. In ancient times, a treatment for insanity and epilepsy was boring a hole in the skull, a process
called trepanation.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
11. The ancient Greeks were the first people to record health records.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
, 12. The ancient Chinese began the development of sanitary systems by building sewers and
aqueducts.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
13. The ancient Romans believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and
nourishing the body.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (B)
14. The first hospitals were established in ancient Rome when physicians began caring for patients
in their homes.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
15. The average life span during the Middle Ages was 20 to 35 years.
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
16. The Renaissance is often called the "rebirth of the science of medicine."
(A) True
(B) False
Answer : (A)
17. William Harvey's invention of the microscope is the basis of microbiology today.
(A) True
(B) False
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