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Essential Question: How is health care today different from health care
during previous centuries?
Who are the important historical figures that have advanced medicine over the
centuries?
Knows: Differentiate between early beliefs about the causes of disease and
treatment and current beliefs about disease and treatment
Identify at least 10 major events in the history of health care
Name at least six historical individuals and explain how each one has helped to
improve health care today
Create a time line showing what you believe are the 20 most important
discoveries in health care and explain why you believe they are important
Questions:
What did people in ancient times
think caused disease?
What health care improvements
occurred during the ancient times?
Who were the important
physicians during ancient times?
What did they do?
Why were diseases rampant during
the dark ages?
What treatments were mostly
used for disease during the dark
ages?
Why did medical knowledge
improve during the Renaissance?
Notes:
What notable medical
improvements occurred during the
Renaissance?
Who were the important
physicians during the Renaissance?
What did they do?
How did medical technology
advancements change medical
knowledge during the 16-18th
centuries?
What notable medical
improvements occurred during the
16-18th centuries?
What medical technology
advancements occurred during the
19th century?
What did people in the 19th
century think caused disease?
Who were the important
physicians during the 19th century?
What did they do?
What medical technology
advancements occurred during the
20th century?
What notable medical
improvements occurred during the
20th century?
Who were the important
physicians during the 20th century?
What did they do?
Why did the average life span
double during the 20th century?
Who were the important
physicians during the 21th century?
What did they do?
What major problems face the
health care system in the 21st
century?
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