SPHHS 150 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Medicaid - Answers - A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care
services for people who cannot afford them.
Medicare - Answers - A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age
and older
- costs are covered by payroll taxes and premiums paid by enrollees
Medicare A - Answers - Hospital coverage
Medicare B - Answers - medical coverage
Medicare C - Answers - medicare advantage
Medicare D - Answers - prescription coverage
Affordable Care Act - Answers - - obamacare
law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost reduction and
affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
Disinformation - Answers - false information purposely disseminated for the purpose of
creating a false impression
Misinformation - Answers - Untrue or wrong information
Manufactured doubt - Answers - actions that deliberately alter and misrepresent
knowable facts and empirical evidence to promote an agenda; often to benefit a broader
industry, specific corporation or group of individuals
Tactics used by the tobacco industry - Answers - - hire consultants and scientists to say
that smokers do not have a higher rate of cancer
- question every study that suggests harm
- delay compensating victims
- suggest you're doing your own "research"
Logical Fallacies - Answers - the use of faulty or invalid reasoning when constructing an
argument
Positive Communication: health - Answers - - contact elected officials
- take a public stance
APHA - Answers - American Public Health Association
, Public health advocacy positions - Answers - "your voice makes a difference in the
policymaking process. Get involved and help shape the national debate on public health
issues"
conditions affecting aging populations - Answers - bones and joints, cancer, metabolic,
vision, hearing and brain
social determinants of health - Answers - The conditions in which people are born,
grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at
global, national, and local levels
non-modifiable risk factor - Answers - ex: age, ethnicity etc.
Things that cannot be changed
modifiable risk factor - Answers - ex: amount of exercise, diet
Things that can be changed
protective factors - Answers - conditions that shield individuals from the negative
consequences of exposure to risk
Osteoporosis - Answers - a condition in which the bones become fragile and break
easily
arthritis - Answers - painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
cancer - Answers - any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and
uncontrolled cell division
metabolic diseases - Answers - Cause the dysfunction, poor function, or malfunction of
certain organs or physiological processes within the body leading to disease states
Dementia and Alzheimer's - Answers - forgetting things, personality change, disease of
aging, end result is death
costs of care for the elderly - Answers - - prices rise when involving popular conditions
that affect health
- original medicare does not offer coverage for dental, vision or hearing
environment - Answers - the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or
plant lives or operates.
environmental health - Answers - the study of how environmental factors affect human
health and quality of life
Toxicology - Answers - study of poisonous substances and their effects upon body parts
Medicaid - Answers - A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care
services for people who cannot afford them.
Medicare - Answers - A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age
and older
- costs are covered by payroll taxes and premiums paid by enrollees
Medicare A - Answers - Hospital coverage
Medicare B - Answers - medical coverage
Medicare C - Answers - medicare advantage
Medicare D - Answers - prescription coverage
Affordable Care Act - Answers - - obamacare
law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost reduction and
affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
Disinformation - Answers - false information purposely disseminated for the purpose of
creating a false impression
Misinformation - Answers - Untrue or wrong information
Manufactured doubt - Answers - actions that deliberately alter and misrepresent
knowable facts and empirical evidence to promote an agenda; often to benefit a broader
industry, specific corporation or group of individuals
Tactics used by the tobacco industry - Answers - - hire consultants and scientists to say
that smokers do not have a higher rate of cancer
- question every study that suggests harm
- delay compensating victims
- suggest you're doing your own "research"
Logical Fallacies - Answers - the use of faulty or invalid reasoning when constructing an
argument
Positive Communication: health - Answers - - contact elected officials
- take a public stance
APHA - Answers - American Public Health Association
, Public health advocacy positions - Answers - "your voice makes a difference in the
policymaking process. Get involved and help shape the national debate on public health
issues"
conditions affecting aging populations - Answers - bones and joints, cancer, metabolic,
vision, hearing and brain
social determinants of health - Answers - The conditions in which people are born,
grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at
global, national, and local levels
non-modifiable risk factor - Answers - ex: age, ethnicity etc.
Things that cannot be changed
modifiable risk factor - Answers - ex: amount of exercise, diet
Things that can be changed
protective factors - Answers - conditions that shield individuals from the negative
consequences of exposure to risk
Osteoporosis - Answers - a condition in which the bones become fragile and break
easily
arthritis - Answers - painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
cancer - Answers - any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and
uncontrolled cell division
metabolic diseases - Answers - Cause the dysfunction, poor function, or malfunction of
certain organs or physiological processes within the body leading to disease states
Dementia and Alzheimer's - Answers - forgetting things, personality change, disease of
aging, end result is death
costs of care for the elderly - Answers - - prices rise when involving popular conditions
that affect health
- original medicare does not offer coverage for dental, vision or hearing
environment - Answers - the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or
plant lives or operates.
environmental health - Answers - the study of how environmental factors affect human
health and quality of life
Toxicology - Answers - study of poisonous substances and their effects upon body parts
