HSC 317 EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔A dynamic state or condition of the human organism that is multidimensional in
nature, a resource for living, and results from a person's interactions with and
adaptations to his or her environment; therefore, it can exist in varying degrees and is
specific to each individual and his or her situation - ✔✔Health
✔✔The difference in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases, and
other adverse health concerns that exist among specific population groups - ✔✔Health
disparities
✔✔The years 1900 to 1960; a time of great growth in health care facilities and providers
- ✔✔Health resources development period
✔✔The fourth set of health goals and objectives for the U.S. that defines the nation's
health agenda and guides its health policy - ✔✔Healthy People 2020
✔✔The resistance of a population to the spread of an infectious agent based on the
immunity of a high portion of individuals - ✔✔Herd immunity
✔✔A jointly funded federal-state health insurance program for low-income Americans -
✔✔Medicaid
✔✔The ability of the health care system to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to,
and recover from health emergencies, particularly those whose scale, timing, or
unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities - ✔✔Medical preparedness
✔✔A national health insurance program for people 65 years of age and older, certain
younger disabled people, and people with permanent kidney failure - ✔✔Medicare
✔✔The era of public health that began in 1850 and continues today - ✔✔Modern era of
public health
, ✔✔The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such
outcomes within the group - ✔✔Population health
✔✔Actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people
can be healthy occur - ✔✔Public health
✔✔The organizational mechanism of those activities undertaken within the formal
structure of government and the associated efforts of private and the voluntary
organizations and individuals - ✔✔Public health system
✔✔The years 1900 to 1920, characterized by social movements to improve health
conditions in cities and in the workplace - ✔✔Reform phase of public health
✔✔Health assessment, policy development, and health assurance - ✔✔Core functions
of public health
✔✔An endowed institution that donates money for the good of humankind -
✔✔Philanthropic foundations
✔✔Organizations that have some responsibilities assigned by the government, but
operate more like voluntary agencies - ✔✔Quasi-governmental health agencies
✔✔The scale used to determine the fee for services based on ability to pay - ✔✔Sliding
scale
✔✔A set of goals created by the WHO to build on the work accomplished via the
Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs) - ✔✔Sustainable Developmental Goals
(SDGs)
✔✔A method of funding in which funds are transmitted from the federal or state
government to the local level - ✔✔Top-down funding
✔✔A nonprofit organization created by concerned citizens to deal with health needs not
meet by governmental health agencies - ✔✔Voluntary health agencies
✔✔The most widely recognized international governmental health organization -
✔✔World Health Organization (WHO)
✔✔Rates used to make comparisons across groups and over time when groups differ
by age structure - ✔✔Age-adjusted rate
✔✔An epidemiological study aimed at testing hypotheses - ✔✔Analytic study
SET A+
✔✔A dynamic state or condition of the human organism that is multidimensional in
nature, a resource for living, and results from a person's interactions with and
adaptations to his or her environment; therefore, it can exist in varying degrees and is
specific to each individual and his or her situation - ✔✔Health
✔✔The difference in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases, and
other adverse health concerns that exist among specific population groups - ✔✔Health
disparities
✔✔The years 1900 to 1960; a time of great growth in health care facilities and providers
- ✔✔Health resources development period
✔✔The fourth set of health goals and objectives for the U.S. that defines the nation's
health agenda and guides its health policy - ✔✔Healthy People 2020
✔✔The resistance of a population to the spread of an infectious agent based on the
immunity of a high portion of individuals - ✔✔Herd immunity
✔✔A jointly funded federal-state health insurance program for low-income Americans -
✔✔Medicaid
✔✔The ability of the health care system to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to,
and recover from health emergencies, particularly those whose scale, timing, or
unpredictability threatens to overwhelm routine capabilities - ✔✔Medical preparedness
✔✔A national health insurance program for people 65 years of age and older, certain
younger disabled people, and people with permanent kidney failure - ✔✔Medicare
✔✔The era of public health that began in 1850 and continues today - ✔✔Modern era of
public health
, ✔✔The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such
outcomes within the group - ✔✔Population health
✔✔Actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people
can be healthy occur - ✔✔Public health
✔✔The organizational mechanism of those activities undertaken within the formal
structure of government and the associated efforts of private and the voluntary
organizations and individuals - ✔✔Public health system
✔✔The years 1900 to 1920, characterized by social movements to improve health
conditions in cities and in the workplace - ✔✔Reform phase of public health
✔✔Health assessment, policy development, and health assurance - ✔✔Core functions
of public health
✔✔An endowed institution that donates money for the good of humankind -
✔✔Philanthropic foundations
✔✔Organizations that have some responsibilities assigned by the government, but
operate more like voluntary agencies - ✔✔Quasi-governmental health agencies
✔✔The scale used to determine the fee for services based on ability to pay - ✔✔Sliding
scale
✔✔A set of goals created by the WHO to build on the work accomplished via the
Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs) - ✔✔Sustainable Developmental Goals
(SDGs)
✔✔A method of funding in which funds are transmitted from the federal or state
government to the local level - ✔✔Top-down funding
✔✔A nonprofit organization created by concerned citizens to deal with health needs not
meet by governmental health agencies - ✔✔Voluntary health agencies
✔✔The most widely recognized international governmental health organization -
✔✔World Health Organization (WHO)
✔✔Rates used to make comparisons across groups and over time when groups differ
by age structure - ✔✔Age-adjusted rate
✔✔An epidemiological study aimed at testing hypotheses - ✔✔Analytic study
