HPDP EXAM STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GUARANTEE A+ 2025
✔✔CMS - ✔✔Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation); Better
care: Improve individual patient experiences of care along the Institute of Medicine's six
domains of quality: Safety, Effectiveness, Patient-Centeredness, Timeliness, Efficiency,
and Equity.•Healthier people: Encourage better health for entire populations by
addressing underlying causes of poor health, such as physical inactivity, behavioral risk
factors, lack of preventive care and poor nutrition.•Smarter spending: Lower the total
cost of care resulting in reduced monthly expenditures for each Medicare, Medicaid or
CHIP beneficiary by improving care. Administers the Medicare program and works in
partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid: Health Insurance Programs
✔✔SAMHSA - ✔✔Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;
mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's
communities:
Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Trauma and Justice
Military Families
Recovery Support
✔✔HRSA - ✔✔Health Resources and Services Administration; Mission: To improve
health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health
workforce and innovative programs.•Goals: -Improve Access to Quality Care and
Services-Strengthen the Health Workforce-Build Healthy Communities-Improve Health
Equity; The primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for
people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.•HRSA grantees provide
health care to uninsured people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and pregnant women,
mothers and children. They train health professionals and improve systems of care in
rural communities.•Funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
✔✔FDA - ✔✔Food and Drug Administration; Protecting the public health by assuring
that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled; human and veterinary
drugs, and vaccines and other biological products and medical devices intended for
human use are safe and effective•Protecting the public from electronic product
radiation•Assuring cosmetics and dietary supplements are safe and properly
labeled•Regulating tobacco products•Advancing the public health by helping to speed
product innovations•Helping the public get the accurate science-based information they
need to use medicines, devices, and foods to improve their health
✔✔AHRQ - ✔✔Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ); mission:
Improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all
Americans, helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of
health care services. Overall focus is:
-Safety and quality: reduce the risk of harm
-Effectiveness: encourage use of evidence to make informed health care decisions.
, -Efficiency: transform research into practice to facilitate access to effective services and
reduce unnecessary costs.
✔✔CDC - ✔✔Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; collaborate to create the
expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their
health - through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and
preparedness for new health threats. •Monitor health•Detect and investigate health
problems•Conduct research to enhance prevention•Develop and advocate sound public
health policies•Implement prevention strategies•Promote healthy behaviors•Foster safe
and healthful environments•Provider leadership and training
✔✔AOA - ✔✔Administration on Aging
Carries out provisions of the Older Americans Act (OAA) to pretty much just make sure
that people over 60 have proper programs, services, funding, etc.
✔✔IHS - ✔✔Indian Health Service
Provides federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives
Raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health
✔✔IOM - ✔✔National Academy; An independent, nonprofit organization that works
outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers
and the public.Established in 1970 - health arm of the National Academies (along with
Nat'l Academy of Sciences, Nat'l Academy of Engineering, and Nat'l Research Council);
Rigorous research process, aimed at providing objective and straightforward answers to
difficult questions of national importance. •Consensus studies •Committee's task
developed in collaboration with the study's sponsor•Then works independently•Private
deliberations•Independent external review with comments provided anonymously to the
committee members.
✔✔NIH - ✔✔National Institutes of Health; NIH's mission is to seek fundamental
knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that
knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and
disability.NIH is the nation's medical research agency - supporting scientific studies that
turn discovery into health.
✔✔NIAA - ✔✔National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Part of NIH
Focuses on reducing alcohol related problems
Conducts and supports alcohol related research
✔✔NIMH - ✔✔National Institute of Mental Health
Lead agency on research for mental disorders
Part of NIH
Performs basic and clinical research in prevention, recovery, and cure
GUARANTEE A+ 2025
✔✔CMS - ✔✔Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation); Better
care: Improve individual patient experiences of care along the Institute of Medicine's six
domains of quality: Safety, Effectiveness, Patient-Centeredness, Timeliness, Efficiency,
and Equity.•Healthier people: Encourage better health for entire populations by
addressing underlying causes of poor health, such as physical inactivity, behavioral risk
factors, lack of preventive care and poor nutrition.•Smarter spending: Lower the total
cost of care resulting in reduced monthly expenditures for each Medicare, Medicaid or
CHIP beneficiary by improving care. Administers the Medicare program and works in
partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid: Health Insurance Programs
✔✔SAMHSA - ✔✔Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;
mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's
communities:
Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Trauma and Justice
Military Families
Recovery Support
✔✔HRSA - ✔✔Health Resources and Services Administration; Mission: To improve
health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health
workforce and innovative programs.•Goals: -Improve Access to Quality Care and
Services-Strengthen the Health Workforce-Build Healthy Communities-Improve Health
Equity; The primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for
people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.•HRSA grantees provide
health care to uninsured people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and pregnant women,
mothers and children. They train health professionals and improve systems of care in
rural communities.•Funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
✔✔FDA - ✔✔Food and Drug Administration; Protecting the public health by assuring
that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled; human and veterinary
drugs, and vaccines and other biological products and medical devices intended for
human use are safe and effective•Protecting the public from electronic product
radiation•Assuring cosmetics and dietary supplements are safe and properly
labeled•Regulating tobacco products•Advancing the public health by helping to speed
product innovations•Helping the public get the accurate science-based information they
need to use medicines, devices, and foods to improve their health
✔✔AHRQ - ✔✔Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ); mission:
Improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all
Americans, helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of
health care services. Overall focus is:
-Safety and quality: reduce the risk of harm
-Effectiveness: encourage use of evidence to make informed health care decisions.
, -Efficiency: transform research into practice to facilitate access to effective services and
reduce unnecessary costs.
✔✔CDC - ✔✔Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; collaborate to create the
expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their
health - through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and
preparedness for new health threats. •Monitor health•Detect and investigate health
problems•Conduct research to enhance prevention•Develop and advocate sound public
health policies•Implement prevention strategies•Promote healthy behaviors•Foster safe
and healthful environments•Provider leadership and training
✔✔AOA - ✔✔Administration on Aging
Carries out provisions of the Older Americans Act (OAA) to pretty much just make sure
that people over 60 have proper programs, services, funding, etc.
✔✔IHS - ✔✔Indian Health Service
Provides federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives
Raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health
✔✔IOM - ✔✔National Academy; An independent, nonprofit organization that works
outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers
and the public.Established in 1970 - health arm of the National Academies (along with
Nat'l Academy of Sciences, Nat'l Academy of Engineering, and Nat'l Research Council);
Rigorous research process, aimed at providing objective and straightforward answers to
difficult questions of national importance. •Consensus studies •Committee's task
developed in collaboration with the study's sponsor•Then works independently•Private
deliberations•Independent external review with comments provided anonymously to the
committee members.
✔✔NIH - ✔✔National Institutes of Health; NIH's mission is to seek fundamental
knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that
knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and
disability.NIH is the nation's medical research agency - supporting scientific studies that
turn discovery into health.
✔✔NIAA - ✔✔National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Part of NIH
Focuses on reducing alcohol related problems
Conducts and supports alcohol related research
✔✔NIMH - ✔✔National Institute of Mental Health
Lead agency on research for mental disorders
Part of NIH
Performs basic and clinical research in prevention, recovery, and cure
