MHA 708 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔agency relationship - ✔✔In healthcare, delegation by the patient of some authority
to make decisions and perform actions on the patient's behalf to an expert such as a
physician or other healthcare provider.
✔✔health maintenance organization (HMO) - ✔✔A managed care organization that
integrates medicalcare with payment and typically requires the use of a specified panel
of providers.
✔✔A policy - ✔✔a decision made by an authority about an action—either one to be
taken or one to be prohibited—to promote or limit the occurrence of a particular
circumstance in a population
✔✔Public policy - ✔✔decision making that affects the general population or sig- nificant
segments thereof—is meant to improve the conditions and general welfare of the
population or subpopulations under its jurisdiction.
✔✔Private policy - ✔✔policy that affects a particular organization only—is meant to
improve the conditions and general welfare of the shareholders (if publicly traded) and
employees of that organization.
✔✔health policy - ✔✔Legislation over individuals, organizations, or society whose goal
is to improve health for the general population or subpopulations.
✔✔healthcare policy - ✔✔The part of health policy specifically related to the financing,
delivery, and governance of health services for the general population or
subpopulations within a jurisdiction.
✔✔regulatory policies - ✔✔Regulations or rules that impose restrictions and are
intended to control the behavior of a target group by monitoring
the group and imposing sanctions if it fails to comply.
✔✔agency relationship - ✔✔In healthcare, delegation by the patient of some authority
to make decisions and perform actions on the patient's behalf to an expert such as a
physician or other healthcare provider.
✔✔health maintenance organization (HMO) - ✔✔A managed care organization that
integrates medicalcare with payment and typically requires the use of a specified panel
of providers.
✔✔A policy - ✔✔a decision made by an authority about an action—either one to be
taken or one to be prohibited—to promote or limit the occurrence of a particular
circumstance in a population
✔✔Public policy - ✔✔decision making that affects the general population or sig- nificant
segments thereof—is meant to improve the conditions and general welfare of the
population or subpopulations under its jurisdiction.
✔✔Private policy - ✔✔policy that affects a particular organization only—is meant to
improve the conditions and general welfare of the shareholders (if publicly traded) and
employees of that organization.
✔✔health policy - ✔✔Legislation over individuals, organizations, or society whose goal
is to improve health for the general population or subpopulations.
✔✔healthcare policy - ✔✔The part of health policy specifically related to the financing,
delivery, and governance of health services for the general population or
subpopulations within a jurisdiction.
✔✔regulatory policies - ✔✔Regulations or rules that impose restrictions and are
intended to control the behavior of a target group by monitoring
the group and imposing sanctions if it fails to comply.
