MHA 708 EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The Population Health Model - ✔✔Seeks to explain and intervene in the causes of
the systematic differences in health between different groups (Seeks to improve the
health of the population by improving the health of sub-groups within
the population)
✔✔A market approach - ✔✔means that healthcare is distributed based on a person's
willingness to pay
✔✔social justice approach - ✔✔allocates care according to need rather than ability to
pay.
✔✔Multiple determinants of health arise from five domains - ✔✔1) Social and economic
environment (e.g., income, education, employment, social support, culture)
2) Physical environment (e.g., urban design, housing, availability of healthy foods, air
and water safety, exposure to environmental toxins)
3) Genetics and epigenetics (study of gene-environment interactions)
4) Medical care, including prevention, treatment, and disease management programs
5) Health-related behaviors (e.g., smoking, exercise, diet
✔✔Reverse causality - ✔✔health status can influence determinants of health (ex: illness
can affect income
✔✔Types of Health Policy - ✔✔Regulatory - seeks to control the behavior of a particular
group of individuals by monitoring their activities and sanctioning those who fail to
comply.
Allocative- providing income, services or goods is to certain individuals, groups or
institutions.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The Population Health Model - ✔✔Seeks to explain and intervene in the causes of
the systematic differences in health between different groups (Seeks to improve the
health of the population by improving the health of sub-groups within
the population)
✔✔A market approach - ✔✔means that healthcare is distributed based on a person's
willingness to pay
✔✔social justice approach - ✔✔allocates care according to need rather than ability to
pay.
✔✔Multiple determinants of health arise from five domains - ✔✔1) Social and economic
environment (e.g., income, education, employment, social support, culture)
2) Physical environment (e.g., urban design, housing, availability of healthy foods, air
and water safety, exposure to environmental toxins)
3) Genetics and epigenetics (study of gene-environment interactions)
4) Medical care, including prevention, treatment, and disease management programs
5) Health-related behaviors (e.g., smoking, exercise, diet
✔✔Reverse causality - ✔✔health status can influence determinants of health (ex: illness
can affect income
✔✔Types of Health Policy - ✔✔Regulatory - seeks to control the behavior of a particular
group of individuals by monitoring their activities and sanctioning those who fail to
comply.
Allocative- providing income, services or goods is to certain individuals, groups or
institutions.
