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side and outside of hospitals, physicians and other health care providers are as well. Nurses are oft
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Nies: Community/Public Health Nursing, 8th Edition
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MULTIPLE CHOICE jt
1. Which best describes the primary reason that Americans are concerned about health care?
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a. Politicians are discussing how to improve health care. jt jt jt jt jt jt jt
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c. Our national health care costs keep increasing. jt jt jt jt jt jt
d. The new health care system offers free services to Americans. jt jt jt jt jt jt jt jt jt
ANS: C j t
The primary reason for the focus on health care is the constantly increasing costs, which cannot be
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sustained. The costs of caring for the sick accounted for the majority of escalating health care doll
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ars, which increased from 5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015. Politicia
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ns and the media both influence Americans’ perceptions about health care; however, they are not t
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As the largest segment of health care providers, nurses are informed about the current health care
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system and all the problems that result from people not seeking care until they are desperately ill.
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Nurses, as the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasize, usually believe that health care i
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s a right, not a privilege. Therefore, nurses, whose work is central to our current health care delive
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hat will meet health needs. While nurses are in several current TV series and are employed both in
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side and outside of hospitals, physicians and other health care providers are as well. Nurses are oft
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a. There is a trend toward consolidation of health care into large central medical cen
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