Hlt 3 Study guides, Study notes & Summaries

Functions of kidneys - Answer - Maintenance of body fluids and salt levels - Excretion of wastes and foreign particles - Hormone synthesis Renin - Answer angiotensin system: controls water and salt reabsorption by kidneys; regulates blood pressure (BP) Erythropoietin - Answer produced by kidneys in response to tissue hypoxia; stimulates production of blood cells Kidneys participate in conversion of vitamin D - Answer a prehormone from diet (or skin synthesis) to the active form of v...

Topic 3 DQ 1 Provide two different examples of how research uses hypothesis testing, and describe the criteria for rejecting the nullhypothesis. Discuss why this is important in your practice and with patient interactions. Topic 3 DQ 2 Evaluate and provide examples of how hypothesis testing and confidence intervals are used together in health careresearch. Provide a workplace example that illustrates your ideas.

central nervous system - Answer consists of the brain and spinal cord peripheral nervous system - Answer cranial and spinal nerves somatic nervous system - Answer the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the body's skeletal muscles autonomic nervous system - Answer the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart). Its sympathetic division arouses; its parasympathetic division calms. senso...

HLT 362V Topic 2 Discussion 2 Using the research article selected for DQ 1, identify three key questions you will ask and answer when reading the research study and why these questions are important. When responding to peers, provide other questions and answers that could be considered in relation to the peers’ studies. 1. What is Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients? The Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient is the non-parametric statistical measure us...

what is one health? - Answer health of people is connected to health of animals, plants and shared environments approach to achieving optimal health for people and other organisms in environment leading factors causing decline of insect populations - Answer habitat change = mono cultures in agriculture, draining wetlands, soil loss pollution = pesticides and fertilizers biological factors = invasive species climate change what are ecosystem services? - Answer functions of natural sys...

--- HLT 306V Week 5 Quiz --- -1. What is the purpose of informed consent? -2. CAM is: -3. What should the patient’s condition be to give informed consent? -4. Which of the following ethical theories means “do no harm”? -5. What is the goal of patient education of the elderly? -6. Which of ...

HLT 362 Week 1 Quiz 1. If a study is comparing number of falls by age, age is considered what type of variable? o Interval o Ordinal o Ratio o Nominal o 2. Validity is: o A data item, such as characteristics, numbers, properties, or quantities that can be measured or counted. o The extent to which an idea or measurement is well-founded and an accurate representation of the real world. o A measurement level with equal distances between the points and a zero-s...

Does the US prefer quality or quantity? - Quantity Do we have universal healthcare? - NO Compared to other countries, is our cost of healthcare high or low? - High, it is almost double what other developed countries spend. the public health systems focus is primarily on - the population and community the healthcare systems focus is primarily on - the individual the public health system emphasizes - disease prevention and health promotion the healthcare system emphasizes - diagnosis and tr...

HLT 362 Week 1 Quiz

kidneys - Answer -maintain body fluids and salt levels -excretion of wastes and foreign particles - hormone synthesis renin - Answer angiotensin system- controls water and salt reabsorption by kidneys - regulates blood pressure Erythropoietin - Answer produced by kidneys in response to tissue hypoxia - stimulates production of blood cells hypoxia - Answer oxygen deficiency nephron - Answer unit of filtration in the kidney - avg # per kidney : 900,000- 1 mil - range is betwe...