HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
True or False: As defined by the World Health Organization, health is the absence of disease or infirmity.
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: The continuum of care includes healthcare services from birth to death. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
True or False: The healthcare industry is stable with little change from year to year. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: When planning solutions for population health problems, managers should realize that
disparities are linked to environment. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Which of the following four factors in Blum's force field model of health (as presented in Chapter 1) has
the weakest effect on the health of a population? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Medical care
Which of the following four factors in Blum's force field model of health (as presented in Chapter 1) has
the strongest effect on the health of a population? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enviroment
Healthcare organizations together provide a continuum of care that includes - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅preventive services.
rehabilitation services.
diagnostic services.
Correct - all of the above.
The external environment that affects healthcare organizations can be divided into ten sectors. The
sector that encompasses related businesses and competitors is the - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅industry
sector
The external environment that affects healthcare organizations can be divided into ten sectors. The
market sector encompasses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅customers and clients.
, A manager measures a community's health outcomes and factors that cause them, and then uses that
information to coordinate the community's people and organizations to improve health. The manager is
practicing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅population health
According to the textbook, healthcare issues, trends, and future developments include all of the
following except - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅physicians working for smaller independent medical group
practices
True or False: Managers have their personal differences, yet they all manage the same way using
management theories and methods. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: The use of bureaucratic principles for management tends to make organizations more
efficient and less personal. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
True or False: As presented in Chapter 2, management is not the same as leadership; it is part of
leadership. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: How a healthcare organization should be organized depends partly on the external
environment in which that organization exists. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅true
True or False: Span of control shows how many subordinate workers a manager is responsible for. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
True or False: Students should try to learn one best way to organize and then use it wherever they work
during their careers. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Departments in a healthcare organization should be organized with similar degrees of centralization,
specialization, division of work, and chain of command. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
The process of getting things done through and with people is known as - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅management
True or False: As defined by the World Health Organization, health is the absence of disease or infirmity.
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: The continuum of care includes healthcare services from birth to death. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
True or False: The healthcare industry is stable with little change from year to year. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: When planning solutions for population health problems, managers should realize that
disparities are linked to environment. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Which of the following four factors in Blum's force field model of health (as presented in Chapter 1) has
the weakest effect on the health of a population? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Medical care
Which of the following four factors in Blum's force field model of health (as presented in Chapter 1) has
the strongest effect on the health of a population? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enviroment
Healthcare organizations together provide a continuum of care that includes - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅preventive services.
rehabilitation services.
diagnostic services.
Correct - all of the above.
The external environment that affects healthcare organizations can be divided into ten sectors. The
sector that encompasses related businesses and competitors is the - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅industry
sector
The external environment that affects healthcare organizations can be divided into ten sectors. The
market sector encompasses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅customers and clients.
, A manager measures a community's health outcomes and factors that cause them, and then uses that
information to coordinate the community's people and organizations to improve health. The manager is
practicing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅population health
According to the textbook, healthcare issues, trends, and future developments include all of the
following except - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅physicians working for smaller independent medical group
practices
True or False: Managers have their personal differences, yet they all manage the same way using
management theories and methods. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: The use of bureaucratic principles for management tends to make organizations more
efficient and less personal. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
True or False: As presented in Chapter 2, management is not the same as leadership; it is part of
leadership. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
True or False: How a healthcare organization should be organized depends partly on the external
environment in which that organization exists. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅true
True or False: Span of control shows how many subordinate workers a manager is responsible for. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
True or False: Students should try to learn one best way to organize and then use it wherever they work
during their careers. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Departments in a healthcare organization should be organized with similar degrees of centralization,
specialization, division of work, and chain of command. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
The process of getting things done through and with people is known as - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅management
