HSA 3111 Exam 1 ACTUAL UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Understanding individual parts of a system as well as how these parts interact through recurring
patterns to produce a whole describes which theory? - CORRECT ANSWER Systems
thinking theory
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim for populations consists of which of the
following dimensions? - CORRECT ANSWER Experience of Care, Population health and
Per capita cost
Groups of interacting, interrelate, or independent components that form a complex and unified
whole best describes a - CORRECT ANSWER system
System thinking could be applied to health because the model recognized the interaction of
which factors? - CORRECT ANSWER Psychological, biological and sociological
George Engel 1970s "biopsychosocial model" was a better way to understand - CORRECT
ANSWER disease expression
True/False? A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or entity interested in an issue,
topic, or outcome. - CORRECT ANSWER True
True/False? In the US, the delivery of health services is mostly in private hands, and so health
care is fully governed by free-market forces - CORRECT ANSWER False
Health determinants include which of the following five categories? - CORRECT
ANSWER Policymaking, social factors, health services, individual behavir, and biology
and genetics
Attributes of Complex Adaptive Systems include which of the following? - CORRECT
ANSWER Agents, interconnections, self-organization, emergence and co-evolution
, Allowing healthcare professionals to assess the interactions and interdependencies among parts
of a system and seek out opportunities to generate sustainable solutions describes: - CORRECT
ANSWER systems thinking
One of the most significant health policy changes the past decades occurred with the Ronald
Reagan administrations. Which of the following answer accurately describes the policy change?
- CORRECT ANSWER Implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system in
hospitals
As the Depression of 1929 shook the nation, it also threatened the financial security of both
physicians and hospitals. Baylor University Hospital created the model for which hospital
insurance? - CORRECT ANSWER Blue Cross
The primary purpose of Medicare was to - CORRECT ANSWER provide health insurance
for older Americans
Which of the following is NOT one of the three main health care concerns? - CORRECT
ANSWER Choice
Health care in the US dramatically improved during the 1900s. In the second half of the century,
the technological advances led to - CORRECT ANSWER all of these are correct
The medicare prospective payment system in hospitals is based on - CORRECT
ANSWER the American Medical Association (AMA) or diagnosis-related groups (DRGs)
??
The explosion of science and technology in the 1970s resulted in which of the following? -
CORRECT ANSWER All of these are correct
Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades was
modeled after - CORRECT ANSWER Baylor University Hospitals teachers plans
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Understanding individual parts of a system as well as how these parts interact through recurring
patterns to produce a whole describes which theory? - CORRECT ANSWER Systems
thinking theory
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim for populations consists of which of the
following dimensions? - CORRECT ANSWER Experience of Care, Population health and
Per capita cost
Groups of interacting, interrelate, or independent components that form a complex and unified
whole best describes a - CORRECT ANSWER system
System thinking could be applied to health because the model recognized the interaction of
which factors? - CORRECT ANSWER Psychological, biological and sociological
George Engel 1970s "biopsychosocial model" was a better way to understand - CORRECT
ANSWER disease expression
True/False? A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or entity interested in an issue,
topic, or outcome. - CORRECT ANSWER True
True/False? In the US, the delivery of health services is mostly in private hands, and so health
care is fully governed by free-market forces - CORRECT ANSWER False
Health determinants include which of the following five categories? - CORRECT
ANSWER Policymaking, social factors, health services, individual behavir, and biology
and genetics
Attributes of Complex Adaptive Systems include which of the following? - CORRECT
ANSWER Agents, interconnections, self-organization, emergence and co-evolution
, Allowing healthcare professionals to assess the interactions and interdependencies among parts
of a system and seek out opportunities to generate sustainable solutions describes: - CORRECT
ANSWER systems thinking
One of the most significant health policy changes the past decades occurred with the Ronald
Reagan administrations. Which of the following answer accurately describes the policy change?
- CORRECT ANSWER Implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system in
hospitals
As the Depression of 1929 shook the nation, it also threatened the financial security of both
physicians and hospitals. Baylor University Hospital created the model for which hospital
insurance? - CORRECT ANSWER Blue Cross
The primary purpose of Medicare was to - CORRECT ANSWER provide health insurance
for older Americans
Which of the following is NOT one of the three main health care concerns? - CORRECT
ANSWER Choice
Health care in the US dramatically improved during the 1900s. In the second half of the century,
the technological advances led to - CORRECT ANSWER all of these are correct
The medicare prospective payment system in hospitals is based on - CORRECT
ANSWER the American Medical Association (AMA) or diagnosis-related groups (DRGs)
??
The explosion of science and technology in the 1970s resulted in which of the following? -
CORRECT ANSWER All of these are correct
Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades was
modeled after - CORRECT ANSWER Baylor University Hospitals teachers plans
