answers
__________ perceives health problems as a result of dysfunction in a system or
systems, resulting from injury, infection, toxic exposure, or other causes.
Ans✓✓✓ Western medicine
A __________ issue might concern whether and where to substitute relatively
low-cost nurses for physicians in the provision of medical care. Ans✓✓✓
productive efficiency
A good health financing system raises adequate funds for health in ways that?
Ans✓✓✓ Ensures people can use needed services without financial
catastrophe/impoverishment associated with having to pay for them.
A well-functioning health information system does what? Ans✓✓✓ Ensures the
production, analysis, dissemination, and use of reliable and timely information on
health determinants, health system performance, and health status.
A well-performing health workforce is one that works in ways that are
__________ to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given available
resources and circumstances (i.e., there is sufficient staff, fairly distributed; they
are competent, responsive, and productive). Ans✓✓✓ responsive, fair, and
efficient
According to __________ , the human body must maintain homeostasis to
maintain a state of health: an internal, bodily balance between two inseparable
and opposing forces of nature: yin and yang. Ans✓✓✓ Chinese medicine
, Administrative costs are high at __________ of health spending. At more than
USDº800 per person, this is __________ the average of the G7 countries.
Ans✓✓✓ 8%; five times
Allocative Ans✓✓✓ Attaining the most valued mix of health care services.
Ambulatory Care Ans✓✓✓ Care provided without need for hospitalization.
An __________ issue is how much to invest in preventive versus curative medical
services. Ans✓✓✓ allocative efficiency
At the macrolevel, efficiency analysis is based on... Ans✓✓✓ comparisons of the
performance of health care systems
At the microlevel, efficiency is assessed using: Ans✓✓✓ (a) production functions,
and (b) cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and cost-utility analysis.
Built Environment Ans✓✓✓ The __________ refers to the presence of (and
proximity to) health-relevant resources as well as to aspects of the ways in which
neighborhoods are designed and built (including land use patterns, transportation
systems, and urban planning and design features). ( National Research Council,
2013 )
Components of U.S. Health Care System Ans✓✓✓ - Workforce
- Facilities
- Medical products
- Training & Research