MHA 707 Test 1 2024/2025 Exam
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The Importance of good health care in America: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- altruistic
oriented set of providers and activities + huge industry + profitability
- 20% of our GDP is devoted to medical care and health promotion (value)
- 11% of all US jobs are in the health sector
- sizable share of our income is spent on the health care we need
Characteristics of US health system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- not ordered or
organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
health maintenance - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- clear difference between health
"maintenance" and "restoring" health
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,- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is
impossible
fee for service - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a system under which doctors and
hospitals receive a payment for each service they provide
health care delivery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. the importance of organizations in
delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data, new
pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
5. a dysfunctional payment system
customer friendly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the health system could do much more
to improve the experience of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
access to health care - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔not always ensured. many rural
areas have shortages of doctors and other providers and many doctors
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, refuse to see patients with certain types of insurance because of low
payment rates
2. improving access and coverage
Major Issues and Concerns - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔3. slowing growth of health
care expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
stakeholder - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔set of people who have a strong interest in
how something in our society is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
5. public policy makers
workforce - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔motivated principally by the social goal of
keeping people healthy
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Already Graded A+
The Importance of good health care in America: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- altruistic
oriented set of providers and activities + huge industry + profitability
- 20% of our GDP is devoted to medical care and health promotion (value)
- 11% of all US jobs are in the health sector
- sizable share of our income is spent on the health care we need
Characteristics of US health system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- not ordered or
organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
health maintenance - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- clear difference between health
"maintenance" and "restoring" health
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is
impossible
fee for service - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a system under which doctors and
hospitals receive a payment for each service they provide
health care delivery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. the importance of organizations in
delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data, new
pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
5. a dysfunctional payment system
customer friendly - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the health system could do much more
to improve the experience of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
access to health care - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔not always ensured. many rural
areas have shortages of doctors and other providers and many doctors
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, refuse to see patients with certain types of insurance because of low
payment rates
2. improving access and coverage
Major Issues and Concerns - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔3. slowing growth of health
care expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
stakeholder - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔set of people who have a strong interest in
how something in our society is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
5. public policy makers
workforce - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔motivated principally by the social goal of
keeping people healthy
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