LSUS MHA 710 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS A+ GRADED
The following figure illustrates the health status-medical care spending relationship for
a given country. Suppose the current spending level is S1 on TP1. Which of the following
statements are true? - ANSWER s1 levels of spending are sometimes referred to as
spending on the flat of the curve.
Which of the major tasks described below is NOT required in order to conduct a cost
effectiveness study? - ANSWER **Identifying the overall cost of a health condition on
society.
Measuring the effectiveness of the procedures being evaluated.
Ascertaining all relevant costs and measuring them
Defining the relevant alternative(s) with which the innovation is to be compared.
Ranking alternatives on overall costs.
The following are the determinants of the level of demand for medical care except: -
ANSWER **price of medical care.
-demographic characteristics
-physician factors
-health status
-economic standing
The intangible costs due to loss of quality of life are: - ANSWER pain and suffering
Suppose you were in a position where you had to rely solely on cost-effectiveness
analysis to decide whether or not a category of people get an expensive, possibly
life-saving, intervention. Which of the following would you have to take into account
when you're trying to make that decision? ANSWER CEA ignores the chance that there
, may be some persons in a group without the usual value who might benefit unusually
well from the treatment.
Which of the following is likely to be the most problematic principal-agent relationship? -
ANS Between surgeons and patients.
Cost-of-illness studies are used by researchers to do all of the following except: - ANS
compare the relative efficiency of treatments for different conditions.
Area income increases by 20 percent. What happens? - ANS quantity demanded
increases by 10.0 percent.
The standard cut-off for cost per QALY used by most governmental decision makers is
set in terms of multiple of national per capita income. What percent of national per
capita income is the value of the threshold usually? - ANSWER 100
Suppose you are assigned the task of using the standard time trade-off approach to
measure quality of life. Suppose you have to live the last 10 years of your life suffering
from crippling osteoporosis. You tell me that you would give up four of those years in
order to live the remaining six years in perfect health. How many years in a chronic
health state are equivalent to one year in perfect health? - ANSWER 0.6
According to Grossman 1972, what is the origin of the demand for medical care? -
ANSWER It is a derived demand from the demand for health.
What is the QALY? - ANSWER Quality-adjusted life year used extensively to evaluate
medical care resource allocation within government-run programs on fixed budgets,
especially in Europe.
Which of the following measures of effectiveness is an intermediate measure? -
ANSWER Hip Fracture
Surrogate measures reflect clinical efficacy when measuring the effectiveness of a
ANSWERS A+ GRADED
The following figure illustrates the health status-medical care spending relationship for
a given country. Suppose the current spending level is S1 on TP1. Which of the following
statements are true? - ANSWER s1 levels of spending are sometimes referred to as
spending on the flat of the curve.
Which of the major tasks described below is NOT required in order to conduct a cost
effectiveness study? - ANSWER **Identifying the overall cost of a health condition on
society.
Measuring the effectiveness of the procedures being evaluated.
Ascertaining all relevant costs and measuring them
Defining the relevant alternative(s) with which the innovation is to be compared.
Ranking alternatives on overall costs.
The following are the determinants of the level of demand for medical care except: -
ANSWER **price of medical care.
-demographic characteristics
-physician factors
-health status
-economic standing
The intangible costs due to loss of quality of life are: - ANSWER pain and suffering
Suppose you were in a position where you had to rely solely on cost-effectiveness
analysis to decide whether or not a category of people get an expensive, possibly
life-saving, intervention. Which of the following would you have to take into account
when you're trying to make that decision? ANSWER CEA ignores the chance that there
, may be some persons in a group without the usual value who might benefit unusually
well from the treatment.
Which of the following is likely to be the most problematic principal-agent relationship? -
ANS Between surgeons and patients.
Cost-of-illness studies are used by researchers to do all of the following except: - ANS
compare the relative efficiency of treatments for different conditions.
Area income increases by 20 percent. What happens? - ANS quantity demanded
increases by 10.0 percent.
The standard cut-off for cost per QALY used by most governmental decision makers is
set in terms of multiple of national per capita income. What percent of national per
capita income is the value of the threshold usually? - ANSWER 100
Suppose you are assigned the task of using the standard time trade-off approach to
measure quality of life. Suppose you have to live the last 10 years of your life suffering
from crippling osteoporosis. You tell me that you would give up four of those years in
order to live the remaining six years in perfect health. How many years in a chronic
health state are equivalent to one year in perfect health? - ANSWER 0.6
According to Grossman 1972, what is the origin of the demand for medical care? -
ANSWER It is a derived demand from the demand for health.
What is the QALY? - ANSWER Quality-adjusted life year used extensively to evaluate
medical care resource allocation within government-run programs on fixed budgets,
especially in Europe.
Which of the following measures of effectiveness is an intermediate measure? -
ANSWER Hip Fracture
Surrogate measures reflect clinical efficacy when measuring the effectiveness of a
