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IHOP Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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Characteristics of a System— Ans: Structures, Processes,
Connections, Inputs & Outputs
Objectives of a Healthcare System— Ans: To Enable all citizens to
receive health care services and to deliver services that are cost-
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effective and meet established standards of quality
Structures in a Healthcare System— Ans: Education/research,
suppliers, insurers, health care administrators, providers (individuals,
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facilities), payers, government, patients
Insurance— Ans: Spreading of risk, health insurance in America
provides access to care
Processes in Health care & connections— Ans: Financing ->
Insurance -> Payment -> Delivery
Continuum of care— Ans: the trend of health care in someone's
life, i.e.. preventative care - specialty care
Harrison JAMA Paper 1974— Ans: We must choose one of two
goods with the exclusion of the other. This is an ethical dilemma in
health care, trade off of expensive care for few, or inexpensive
care for many.
Unique Aspects of American Health Care System— Ans: No
central agency governs the system, imperfect market and non-
universal access, third party insurers and multiple payers, balance
of power among many stake holders, practice of defensive
medicine, love of technology
US Government role in health care— Ans: determine
reimbursement rates to providers who render Medicare or
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Medicaid, major financer, regulates through licensing personnel
and health care establishments
Americans Coverage Type 2013— Ans: 14% uninsured, 32% public
insurance, 54% private insurance
Private Coverage Type— Ans: Employer is 91%, Self 9%
Public Coverage Type— Ans: 6% other, 48% Medicaid, 46%
Medicare
Why are people uninsured— Ans: They cannot afford to pay out
of pocket, unemployed, not required to buy insurance, employers
do not offer insurance
Access to care in US is Limited to those— Ans: have health
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insurance via employer, covered by government, can afford own
insurance, can pay at time of service. Many providers do not
accept Medicaid, issues with getting care due to transportation
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etc.
Developed nations— Ans: ensure care for all citizens
Bismark model— Ans: Otto von bismark invented it in the 19th
century, financed by sickness funds (non profit), provided by
private doctors, can opt out, but funds must cover everyone, tight
government regulations
The Out-Of-Pocket Model— Ans: The norm in most poor nations
National Health Insurance Model— Ans: Government Insurance
that everyone pays into like in Canada
Beveridge Model— Ans: Named after William Beveridge, system
provided and financed by government like in Great Britain
Health care is shaped by— Ans: political climate, economic
development, technological progress, social/cultural values,
physical environment, population characteristics, global
influences
US Health Care System— Ans: Got there by accident, multiple
payers, trying to fix it for decades, established interests are really
comfortable
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Technology— Ans: Driving force that brought medicine into
public domain, influenced by education, growth of institutions,
urban development, creating a professional entity, making
medicine a growth enterprise
Pre-Industrial Era— Ans: Medical practice in disarray, primitive
medical procedures, missing institutional core, hospitals were not
good to go to, substandard medical education, unstable
demand
Post Industrial Era 1900s— Ans: American physicians resisted
national health care
Medicine Transformed in 1900s due to— Ans: urbanization,
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science and technology, industrialization, patient dependency,
cohesiveness and organization, licensing, educational reform
Urbanization— Ans: more people living in cities, centralized
training and practice, women working outside of home, house
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calls became office visits
Patients seen per day increase from 1850 - 1940— Ans: 5- 7, 18-22
Science and Technology— Ans: ground breaking medical
discoveries
Anesthesia— Ans: 1846
Aseptic Technique— Ans: 1847
Sterilization Technique— Ans: 1860
X-ray Imaging— Ans: 1895
Antibiotics - Penicillin— Ans: 1929
Cultural Authority— Ans: legitimized the profession
Institutionalization— Ans: pooling of resources, professionalization,
urbanization
Hospitals— Ans: became institutions of core care delivery
Early hospitals— Ans: scary places, hospital admittance = death,
widespread expansion of hospitals in 1900 era, high mortality rates
until 1930s
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IHOP Exam 1 Questions and Answers
(100% Correct Answers) Already Graded
A+
Characteristics of a System— Ans: Structures, Processes,
Connections, Inputs & Outputs
Objectives of a Healthcare System— Ans: To Enable all citizens to
receive health care services and to deliver services that are cost-
© 2025 Assignment Expert
effective and meet established standards of quality
Structures in a Healthcare System— Ans: Education/research,
suppliers, insurers, health care administrators, providers (individuals,
Guru01 - Stuvia
facilities), payers, government, patients
Insurance— Ans: Spreading of risk, health insurance in America
provides access to care
Processes in Health care & connections— Ans: Financing ->
Insurance -> Payment -> Delivery
Continuum of care— Ans: the trend of health care in someone's
life, i.e.. preventative care - specialty care
Harrison JAMA Paper 1974— Ans: We must choose one of two
goods with the exclusion of the other. This is an ethical dilemma in
health care, trade off of expensive care for few, or inexpensive
care for many.
Unique Aspects of American Health Care System— Ans: No
central agency governs the system, imperfect market and non-
universal access, third party insurers and multiple payers, balance
of power among many stake holders, practice of defensive
medicine, love of technology
US Government role in health care— Ans: determine
reimbursement rates to providers who render Medicare or
, 2
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Medicaid, major financer, regulates through licensing personnel
and health care establishments
Americans Coverage Type 2013— Ans: 14% uninsured, 32% public
insurance, 54% private insurance
Private Coverage Type— Ans: Employer is 91%, Self 9%
Public Coverage Type— Ans: 6% other, 48% Medicaid, 46%
Medicare
Why are people uninsured— Ans: They cannot afford to pay out
of pocket, unemployed, not required to buy insurance, employers
do not offer insurance
Access to care in US is Limited to those— Ans: have health
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insurance via employer, covered by government, can afford own
insurance, can pay at time of service. Many providers do not
accept Medicaid, issues with getting care due to transportation
Guru01 - Stuvia
etc.
Developed nations— Ans: ensure care for all citizens
Bismark model— Ans: Otto von bismark invented it in the 19th
century, financed by sickness funds (non profit), provided by
private doctors, can opt out, but funds must cover everyone, tight
government regulations
The Out-Of-Pocket Model— Ans: The norm in most poor nations
National Health Insurance Model— Ans: Government Insurance
that everyone pays into like in Canada
Beveridge Model— Ans: Named after William Beveridge, system
provided and financed by government like in Great Britain
Health care is shaped by— Ans: political climate, economic
development, technological progress, social/cultural values,
physical environment, population characteristics, global
influences
US Health Care System— Ans: Got there by accident, multiple
payers, trying to fix it for decades, established interests are really
comfortable
, 3
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Technology— Ans: Driving force that brought medicine into
public domain, influenced by education, growth of institutions,
urban development, creating a professional entity, making
medicine a growth enterprise
Pre-Industrial Era— Ans: Medical practice in disarray, primitive
medical procedures, missing institutional core, hospitals were not
good to go to, substandard medical education, unstable
demand
Post Industrial Era 1900s— Ans: American physicians resisted
national health care
Medicine Transformed in 1900s due to— Ans: urbanization,
© 2025 Assignment Expert
science and technology, industrialization, patient dependency,
cohesiveness and organization, licensing, educational reform
Urbanization— Ans: more people living in cities, centralized
training and practice, women working outside of home, house
Guru01 - Stuvia
calls became office visits
Patients seen per day increase from 1850 - 1940— Ans: 5- 7, 18-22
Science and Technology— Ans: ground breaking medical
discoveries
Anesthesia— Ans: 1846
Aseptic Technique— Ans: 1847
Sterilization Technique— Ans: 1860
X-ray Imaging— Ans: 1895
Antibiotics - Penicillin— Ans: 1929
Cultural Authority— Ans: legitimized the profession
Institutionalization— Ans: pooling of resources, professionalization,
urbanization
Hospitals— Ans: became institutions of core care delivery
Early hospitals— Ans: scary places, hospital admittance = death,
widespread expansion of hospitals in 1900 era, high mortality rates
until 1930s
