Dynamics of Health Care in Society Rutgers
Exam | Newest and Updated Questions and
Answers | 2026 Review Guide
• Who is most likely to remain uninsured after the ACA? -✓✓ - Non-elderly adults
with income below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level whose employer doesn't
provide health insurance
- Those unable to buy insurance because of the cost of premiums
- Hispanic, American/Alaskan Natives, and those living in the South and West in
states that didn't expand Medicaid
• Arrival of Antibiotics -✓✓ 1940, one of the things that signaled the end of the
dominance of acute infectious diseases
• Implementation of Childhood Universal Vaccination -✓✓ 1950, also one of the
things that signaled the end of the dominance of acute infectious diseases.
- Public health program to prevent communicable diseases through vaccination
programs
- Eliminated childhood infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella,
meningitis, hepatitis A and B, and polio
• Implementation of Medicaid and Medicare -✓✓ Implemented in 1965
- Medicaid: Insurance for the low incomed
- Medicare: Insurance for elderly adults 65 years or older
• Healthcare Trends regarding Insurance -✓✓ - In 2008, 17% of the population was
uninsured
- In 1027, 10% of the population was uninsured
, • County Health Rankings -✓✓
• Technological Impact on Healthcare -✓✓ - Improvement on sanitation and
hygiene (systems for safeguarding food and drink)
-Better personal hygiene
-Improvement of nutrition
- Better surgical techniques
- New treatment methods
- New tests to facilitate accurate diagnoses
- Treatment of individual diseases
• Overview of the US Healthcare System -✓✓ The healthcare industry is a
complex system that provides services:
- Diagnostic
- Therapeutic
- Preventive
No centralized healthcare delivery system in the United States!
• Service providers for the US Healthcare System -✓✓ Hospitals, clinics,
government and volunteer agencies, pharmaceutical and medical equipment
manufacturers, and private insurance companies
• Categories of Healthcare Services -✓✓ - Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Diagnosis and treatment of illness
Exam | Newest and Updated Questions and
Answers | 2026 Review Guide
• Who is most likely to remain uninsured after the ACA? -✓✓ - Non-elderly adults
with income below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level whose employer doesn't
provide health insurance
- Those unable to buy insurance because of the cost of premiums
- Hispanic, American/Alaskan Natives, and those living in the South and West in
states that didn't expand Medicaid
• Arrival of Antibiotics -✓✓ 1940, one of the things that signaled the end of the
dominance of acute infectious diseases
• Implementation of Childhood Universal Vaccination -✓✓ 1950, also one of the
things that signaled the end of the dominance of acute infectious diseases.
- Public health program to prevent communicable diseases through vaccination
programs
- Eliminated childhood infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella,
meningitis, hepatitis A and B, and polio
• Implementation of Medicaid and Medicare -✓✓ Implemented in 1965
- Medicaid: Insurance for the low incomed
- Medicare: Insurance for elderly adults 65 years or older
• Healthcare Trends regarding Insurance -✓✓ - In 2008, 17% of the population was
uninsured
- In 1027, 10% of the population was uninsured
, • County Health Rankings -✓✓
• Technological Impact on Healthcare -✓✓ - Improvement on sanitation and
hygiene (systems for safeguarding food and drink)
-Better personal hygiene
-Improvement of nutrition
- Better surgical techniques
- New treatment methods
- New tests to facilitate accurate diagnoses
- Treatment of individual diseases
• Overview of the US Healthcare System -✓✓ The healthcare industry is a
complex system that provides services:
- Diagnostic
- Therapeutic
- Preventive
No centralized healthcare delivery system in the United States!
• Service providers for the US Healthcare System -✓✓ Hospitals, clinics,
government and volunteer agencies, pharmaceutical and medical equipment
manufacturers, and private insurance companies
• Categories of Healthcare Services -✓✓ - Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Diagnosis and treatment of illness
