MABS HEALTH POLICY EXAM 2025
|GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
key federal agencies involved in public health - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
What Does DHHS (Department of Health & Human Services) Do -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
- Helath Resources & Services Administration
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (National Public Health
Institute for the US)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - Largest part of DHHS
- Operates Medicare & Medicaid
- Largely Responsible for implementing the ACA
Health Resources & Services Administration
Focus: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Access to essential health
services for poor, uninsured, rural, medically isolated, &
socioeconomically depressed populations
,Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (National Public Health
institute for the US)
Primary Mission - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Protect public health &
Safety
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (National Public Health
institute for the US) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Surveillance
activities to monitor & prevent disease outbreaks
- Implementation of disease prevention strategies
- Maintenance of national health statistics data
- providing immunization services
- Creation of workplace safety policies & practices
- Environmental disease prevention efforts
- Providing a repository for evidence-based health education for patients
& healthcare professionals
Department Vs Agency - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ DEPARTMENT
- Cabinet level - have a secretary appointed by President & Confirmed
by Senate
AGENCY - Subdivision of a department - head is appointed &
confirmed by Senate (Head reports to secretory)
, How many Phases are in the ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 2
phases
Insurance
Triple Aim
What is Phase 1 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Phase 1 -
Coverage Agenda
Goal of Phase 1 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Provide the
coverage people want & need
(Will not solve the problems because it is not sustainable)
What is Phase 2 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ System
Improvement Agenda
Goal of Phase 2 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ to make
security achieved in Phase 1 sustainable
Better Care
Better Health
Better Cost
"If we dont improve, we cant afford it"
Types of world health systems - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Bismark
Model
|GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
key federal agencies involved in public health - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
What Does DHHS (Department of Health & Human Services) Do -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
- Helath Resources & Services Administration
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (National Public Health
Institute for the US)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ - Largest part of DHHS
- Operates Medicare & Medicaid
- Largely Responsible for implementing the ACA
Health Resources & Services Administration
Focus: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Access to essential health
services for poor, uninsured, rural, medically isolated, &
socioeconomically depressed populations
,Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (National Public Health
institute for the US)
Primary Mission - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Protect public health &
Safety
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (National Public Health
institute for the US) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Surveillance
activities to monitor & prevent disease outbreaks
- Implementation of disease prevention strategies
- Maintenance of national health statistics data
- providing immunization services
- Creation of workplace safety policies & practices
- Environmental disease prevention efforts
- Providing a repository for evidence-based health education for patients
& healthcare professionals
Department Vs Agency - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ DEPARTMENT
- Cabinet level - have a secretary appointed by President & Confirmed
by Senate
AGENCY - Subdivision of a department - head is appointed &
confirmed by Senate (Head reports to secretory)
, How many Phases are in the ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 2
phases
Insurance
Triple Aim
What is Phase 1 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Phase 1 -
Coverage Agenda
Goal of Phase 1 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Provide the
coverage people want & need
(Will not solve the problems because it is not sustainable)
What is Phase 2 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ System
Improvement Agenda
Goal of Phase 2 of ACA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ to make
security achieved in Phase 1 sustainable
Better Care
Better Health
Better Cost
"If we dont improve, we cant afford it"
Types of world health systems - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Bismark
Model
