Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Health Services - CORRECT ANSWER - Organization, financing, and operational delivery of
medical care and human services to individuals with disease, illness, injury, or disablement.
Government
Private enterprise - CORRECT ANSWER - Policy is created by ____ & ______
Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER - both government and private enterprise are involved in
financing, organization, and delivery of health services
Public - CORRECT ANSWER - Government
Source of power: Constitution
Roles:
- Financing
- Organization and delivery
- Regulation
Private - CORRECT ANSWER - Free enterprises
Source of power: Capitalistic market
Roles:
- Financing
- Organization and delivery
Government - CORRECT ANSWER - Power is distributed among three branches: executive,
legislative, and judicial.
Can be "coercive" and can enforce behavioral change
,When it is appropriate to use power - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) There Is A Failure Of The
Private Market To Work As Expected
2) A Consensus For Government Action
Libertartian - CORRECT ANSWER - Source of responsibility: Individual
Health care: Earned reward
(phase out SS)
Treatment of the poor: Private charity
Key Characteristics:
- Liberty
- Make own choices and accept the responsibility (personal liberty)
- Competitive free trade (economic liberty)
- Government sole purpose it to protect individual's rights
Egalitarian - CORRECT ANSWER - Source of responsibility: Society
Health care: Prerequisite for work
Treatment of the poor: Government programs
Key Characteristics:
- Equality
- Equality of opportunity
- Equality of income and wealth
- Equal rank and power
- Declaration of Independence = "all men are created equal"
,Utilitarian - CORRECT ANSWER - Source of responsibility: Morals/Ethics
Health care: Maximize welfare
Treatment of the poor: Give when able to
Key Characteristics:
- Greatest good for the greatest number of people
- Morals
- Value theory + theory of right action
- Maximize happiness
Private Enterprise - CORRECT ANSWER - Power created by investment of capital and
organizational abilities of the institution/individuals
Seek to meet the needs of the consumer efficiently to make a profit
Government and private sources compliment each other and interest groups use this relationship
to create special interest groups to meet their needs: aotpac
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER - Typically thought of as a duty of how we treat our clients
Can also be reflected in social policy and the values of society
Distributive justice
freedom, equality, rewards, treatment of the poor - CORRECT ANSWER - List Long's 4
Values
Freedom - CORRECT ANSWER - individual decisions, autonomy ( medicare therapy cap)
Equality - CORRECT ANSWER - beneficence, disbursement of rewards and responsibilities
(uninsured americans)
Rewards - CORRECT ANSWER - universal vs. employment based health care
, Treatment of the poor - CORRECT ANSWER - care and treatment of all and those
disadvantaged groups (medicaid program changes)
Biomedical Model - CORRECT ANSWER - medical doctors determine who is disabled
based on science and cellular pathology
disablement = problem of medical pathology (cure pathology)
new models of medical disablement =nagi model (1965)
OT/PT = improve function, address pain, weakness, contractions........ recovery/rehab/ medically
necessary
Limits Care To Those In Medically Stable Disablement =
Like Who? What Populations?
Social Disability Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Social disability is dynamic:
Social disability theorists believe that the medical models reinforce 3 stereotypes:
1) health care provider is a solution to disablement
2) assume the "sick role" in order to receive services
what are examples of this in your practice area?
3) ignores powerful social influences
Disablement is created as a result of marginalization of those with disabilities
Disablement is created by a pattern of social and economic discrimination by the majority
Civil rights laws created as a result: what are examples?
Universalism - CORRECT ANSWER - 2 separate systems: 1) medical rehabilitation system
and 2) human services system
disablement is a situation to be recognized by all
policies to include all and educate all
the international classification of functioning, disability, and health (icf)