MHA 707 TEST 1 VERIFICATION REVIEW
LOG 2026 ALL QUESTIONS AND AUTHORIZED
INPUTS CERTIFICATION QUERY DATABASE
⫸ Characteristics of US health system. Answer: - not ordered or
organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
⫸ health maintenance. Answer: - clear difference between health
"maintenance" and "restoring" health
- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is
impossible
⫸ fee for service. Answer: a system under which doctors and
hospitals receive a payment for each service they provide
⫸ health care delivery. Answer: 1. the importance of organizations in
delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data,
new pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
,5. a dysfunctional payment system
⫸ customer friendly. Answer: the health system could do much more
to improve the experience of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
⫸ access to health care. Answer: not always ensured. many rural
areas have shortages of doctors and other providers and many doctors
refuse to see patients with certain types of insurance because of low
payment rates
2. improving access and coverage
⫸ Major Issues and Concerns. Answer: 3. slowing growth of health
care expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
⫸ stakeholder. Answer: set of people who have a strong interest in
how something in our society is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
5. public policy makers
, ⫸ workforce. Answer: motivated principally by the social goal of
keeping people healthy
⫸ consumer stakeholder. Answer: - should be at the center of the
health system
- sometimes bystanders in decisions affecting their own health and
payment issues
- WANT access to quality and affordable health care for self and
family
⫸ providers stakeholders. Answer: - work to advance medical
knowledge
- motivated by the social goal to keep everyone healthy
- face financial pressures to prevent health care costs from increasing
- WANT fair opportunities to earn incomes that reflect their expertise
and workload
⫸ employers stakeholders. Answer: - most offer insurance as a
benefit
- WANT healthy employees who are productive and who do not have
to take time off because of illness
- WANT a slowdown in their health care cost and responsibility
shifted to eomployees
LOG 2026 ALL QUESTIONS AND AUTHORIZED
INPUTS CERTIFICATION QUERY DATABASE
⫸ Characteristics of US health system. Answer: - not ordered or
organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
⫸ health maintenance. Answer: - clear difference between health
"maintenance" and "restoring" health
- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is
impossible
⫸ fee for service. Answer: a system under which doctors and
hospitals receive a payment for each service they provide
⫸ health care delivery. Answer: 1. the importance of organizations in
delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data,
new pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
,5. a dysfunctional payment system
⫸ customer friendly. Answer: the health system could do much more
to improve the experience of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
⫸ access to health care. Answer: not always ensured. many rural
areas have shortages of doctors and other providers and many doctors
refuse to see patients with certain types of insurance because of low
payment rates
2. improving access and coverage
⫸ Major Issues and Concerns. Answer: 3. slowing growth of health
care expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
⫸ stakeholder. Answer: set of people who have a strong interest in
how something in our society is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
5. public policy makers
, ⫸ workforce. Answer: motivated principally by the social goal of
keeping people healthy
⫸ consumer stakeholder. Answer: - should be at the center of the
health system
- sometimes bystanders in decisions affecting their own health and
payment issues
- WANT access to quality and affordable health care for self and
family
⫸ providers stakeholders. Answer: - work to advance medical
knowledge
- motivated by the social goal to keep everyone healthy
- face financial pressures to prevent health care costs from increasing
- WANT fair opportunities to earn incomes that reflect their expertise
and workload
⫸ employers stakeholders. Answer: - most offer insurance as a
benefit
- WANT healthy employees who are productive and who do not have
to take time off because of illness
- WANT a slowdown in their health care cost and responsibility
shifted to eomployees
