c1900-present: Medicine in modern Britain

Question 1

Which of the following is not a government lifestyle campaign after 1900?

Accepted Answer

advertising campaigns against smoking, Change4Life, Stoptober

Question 2

Deaths caused by infectious diseases between 1900 to 1999 dropped...

Accepted Answer

from 25% to less than 1%

Question 3

What is the name of the surgical operation to treat breast cancer?

Accepted Answer

Mastectomy

Question 4

The NHS was vastly important for improving access to care but...

Accepted Answer

Provision did not imporve

Question 5

What are the limitations of genetics on medicine?

Accepted Answer

It only gives the chance to prevent based on the risk, We cant use the knowledge to treat disease

Question 6

Why didn't Fleming develop penicillin further?

Accepted Answer

Didnt believe it could work to kill bacteria in people, Mixed it with blood and was ineffective

Question 7

What year did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?

Accepted Answer

1928

Question 8

Doctors now realised microbes weren't the sole cause of all disease as they discovered...

Accepted Answer

Hereditary diseases

Question 9

Why the Human Genome Project (1990) so significant?

Accepted Answer

Created a blueprint of DNA allowing to look for mistakes, The first time scientists all over the world worked together

Question 10

The government has also passed laws to force people to change their behaviour, such as...

Accepted Answer

banning smoking in all work places in 2007, increase taxation on tobacco products, raining the age o buy cigarettes from 16-18 in 2007

Question 11

What did the first Magic Bullet treat?

Accepted Answer

Syphilis

Question 12

Why was the Magic Bullet a such an important development?

Accepted Answer

It was the first effective chemical cure, It specifically target the disease in the body

Question 13

Which of these new technologies made it easier to create and provide drugs to treat disease?

Accepted Answer

Mass production of pills, Hypodermic needles, development of capsules

Question 14

Which of the following were mass vaccination campaigns by the government in the 20th century?

Accepted Answer

1968 - Measles, 1942 - Diptheria, 1961 - Tetanus

Question 15

Which of the following were new high-tech treatments?

Accepted Answer

Microsurgery, Dialysis machines, Radiotherapy

Question 16

Which of these external factors have an impact on health?

Accepted Answer

Tanning, Smoking, Too much alcohol, Diet

Question 17

The government has tried to influence people to change their behaviour towards smoking, how?

Accepted Answer

ban on tobacco ads entirely in 2005, campaigns to advertise the dangers of smoking, In 2012 removing cigarettes from display

Question 18

During phase one of the NHS contained three parts, these were...

Accepted Answer

GPs, Ambulances, Hospitals

Question 19

What is the most common piece of technology used to help diagnose lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

CT scan

Question 20

How many deaths from lung cancer prompted the government into action in 1973?

Accepted Answer

26,000

Question 21

What year did Florey and Chain trial penicillin on a human patient?

Accepted Answer

1941

Question 22

Why did Florey and Chain have to go to the USA?

Accepted Answer

To mass produce penicillin

Question 23

Which of the following is not a treatment for lung cancer?

Accepted Answer

Genetic Research

Question 24

In what year did Watson, Crick and Franklin discover the structure of DNA?

Accepted Answer

1953

Question 25

Which of the following was not a high-tech technology used to make a diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

X-rays

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