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Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers
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to: - correct answer ✔D. Health promotion and specific protection
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Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




has caused: - correct answer ✔C. many private insurers and Medicare and Medicaid to provide
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benefit coverage for certain treatments. |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic high-
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tech medicine. As a result: - correct answer ✔A. little of the health care dollar is spent on prevention.
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B. the US system is the most expensive in the world.
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C. the US has the world's most advanced medical capability.
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D. all of the above
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Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system challenge
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because: - correct answer ✔Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-acute
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services.



The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - correct answer ✔Access, quality,
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and cost ||||||




In the past, patient behaviors within the health care delivery system were formed from the
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authoritarian positions of better-educated providers who expected patients to be compliant and |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




grateful. Today, health care providers and consumers - correct answer ✔encourage more proactive
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roles for patients' participation in health care decisions with "shared decision-making
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, The U.S. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power, control
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of delivery system parameters for the majority of Americans and influence on consumers and
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providers of health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is the most influential: - correct
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answer ✔Government and private health insurers |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




otential conflicts of interest occur when physicians own or invest in businesses (e.g. diagnostic,
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medical supply companies) to which they can refer patients to generate profits. In response to these
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physician conflict of interest issues: - correct answer ✔The ACA includes "Sunshine provisions" require
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reporting of all financial transactions and transfers of value between pharmaceutical/biologic product
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manufacturers and physicians, hospitals and other entities reimbursed by the federal government. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Annual health care expenditures in the United States far outstrip those of seven other developed
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nations. In relationship with expenditures, the U.S. population health status ranking on critical
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indicators in comparison with those other developed nations is: - correct answer ✔dismally lower
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In the natural history of a disease, the pre-pathogenesis period refers to - correct answer
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✔Behavioral, genetic, environmental and other factors that may contribute to an individual's |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




likelihood of contracting a disease |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades, was modeled
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after: - correct answer ✔Baylor University Hospital's school teachers plan
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The initial reaction of the American Medical Association to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans
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suggested that the plans: - correct answer ✔Were unsound and unethical |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




The most significant social legislation passed by any congress in the history of the United States was: -
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correct answer ✔the Social Security Act of 1935
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The most significant health care advances of the first half of the 20th century were in the area of: -
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correct answer ✔development of vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control infectious diseases
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The Oregon Death with Dignity Act was a response to which of the following? - correct answer
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✔public and professional concerns about painful and demeaning terminal medical care
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