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What are the two broad groups of diseases?

This rock type comprises the crust of the planet and comes from cooled and hardened molten lava.

Most current health problems involving pollution in the United States are from toxic chemicals rather than microbes. These are referred to as ______ diseases.

________ is the percentage of total rock volume that is occupied by voids or pore spaces.

Which mode of indirect disease transmission is the least common?

What is the term given to a combination of silt and sand that contains some organic material and is suitable for the growth of plants?

Which of the following nail conditions is associated with anemia?

A physical therapist identifies edema in the lower leg of a 67 year old patient.  After depressing her thumb into the patients leg to approximately 4mm, the “pit” disappears in 11 seconds.  Which of the following is the most accurate grade for pitting edema?

DD comes into your clinic for rehab post ACL surgery. You notice s/s of depression. You administer the appropriate depression screening and patient reports having thoughts over the last 14days that they would be better off dead or hurting themselves in some way.  What is your next action?

You’ve been treating a 4-year-old with Cerebral Palsy who is mostly non-verbal and lower physical functioning. This patient tends to have a saturated diaper on every session, appears dirty/unkept, and misses sessions frequently due to the parent’s schedule. At this session you asked about the results from the recent neurologist appointment and the parent states they missed it and had to reschedule it for the 3rd time. What would you do and why?