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Chap 1 - Intro to U.S. Health Care System
Questions and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: Chronic
ANS 🗹🗹: being long-lasting - usually comes on slowly, ex AIDS, arthritis
Q: Acute
ANS 🗹🗹: a rapid onset and short but severe course, Heart attack
Q: Medicare
ANS 🗹🗹: a federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and
older, and some with end-stage diseases like kidney and lung disease
Q: Public Health Services
ANS 🗹🗹: provides care through federal, state and local agencies for those who
cannot pay. provide preventive health care for entire population
Q: Health Care Advancements
ANS 🗹🗹: Affected by training and education, and technology. Continues to change
with new ideas
Q: US Health Care is influenced by
ANS 🗹🗹: law of supply and demand, state of the economy, values of society, and
technological advancements
Q: Health Care Careers offer
ANS 🗹🗹: opportunities for advancement, economic security, good working
conditions,
Q: Hippocrates
Chap 1 - Intro to U.S. Health Care System
Questions and Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: Chronic
ANS 🗹🗹: being long-lasting - usually comes on slowly, ex AIDS, arthritis
Q: Acute
ANS 🗹🗹: a rapid onset and short but severe course, Heart attack
Q: Medicare
ANS 🗹🗹: a federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and
older, and some with end-stage diseases like kidney and lung disease
Q: Public Health Services
ANS 🗹🗹: provides care through federal, state and local agencies for those who
cannot pay. provide preventive health care for entire population
Q: Health Care Advancements
ANS 🗹🗹: Affected by training and education, and technology. Continues to change
with new ideas
Q: US Health Care is influenced by
ANS 🗹🗹: law of supply and demand, state of the economy, values of society, and
technological advancements
Q: Health Care Careers offer
ANS 🗹🗹: opportunities for advancement, economic security, good working
conditions,
Q: Hippocrates
