HCP TEST 1 EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
What are the levels of care? - ANS Primary
Secondary
Tertiary Care
primary care - ANS treats common problems and provides preventative care that accounts
for 80-90% of health care visits
Secondary Care - ANS treats problems that require more specialized care such as a surgery or
hospitalization for acute renal failure
tertiary care - ANS involves the management of complex or rare disorders treated by
specialists
What are the two models of health care? - ANS regionalization and dispersed
Characteristics of a regionalized model? - ANS organizes all the health care services into a
define geographic area
personnel and facilities are assigned to a specific level of care
flow of patients across the levels is *very regulated and orderly*
*high emphasis on primary care services*
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, Characteristics of the dispersed model? - ANS *tends to put higher emphasis on services at
the tertiary care level*
there is more free-flowing movement between levels of care
patients can insert themselves into the system at multiple levels - patients are used to taking
their problems right to the specialists
*physicians have less clearly defined roles*
In what model do primary care providers take on roles of secondary care (impatient) -
ANS dispersed model
What shaped structure is Canada? - ANS pyramid
What shaped structure is the US? - ANS diamond (a limited number of general community
hospitals at the base and limited of tertiary referral hospitals at the apex)
What do critics of the US system say - ANS not enough emphasis on primary care
non-system. fragmentation, chaos and disarray
uncontrolled growth and sky rocketed cost bc of lack of organization
quality of care suffers - hospitals performing small number of procedures instead of one
regional hospital performing all of that type of procedure may have worse outcomes
What do defenders of the dispersed model say - ANS promotes flexibility and convenience
emphasis on specialization and technology is in line with vales and expectations
convenient distance from home
What are the ways to classify healthcare professionals? - ANS direct pt contact (docs, PAs,
nurses, therapists)
those that provide support behind the scenes (pathologist, radiologists)
those concerned about the community, health delivery and cost (administrators, health
educators, biomedical engineers)
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
What are the levels of care? - ANS Primary
Secondary
Tertiary Care
primary care - ANS treats common problems and provides preventative care that accounts
for 80-90% of health care visits
Secondary Care - ANS treats problems that require more specialized care such as a surgery or
hospitalization for acute renal failure
tertiary care - ANS involves the management of complex or rare disorders treated by
specialists
What are the two models of health care? - ANS regionalization and dispersed
Characteristics of a regionalized model? - ANS organizes all the health care services into a
define geographic area
personnel and facilities are assigned to a specific level of care
flow of patients across the levels is *very regulated and orderly*
*high emphasis on primary care services*
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, Characteristics of the dispersed model? - ANS *tends to put higher emphasis on services at
the tertiary care level*
there is more free-flowing movement between levels of care
patients can insert themselves into the system at multiple levels - patients are used to taking
their problems right to the specialists
*physicians have less clearly defined roles*
In what model do primary care providers take on roles of secondary care (impatient) -
ANS dispersed model
What shaped structure is Canada? - ANS pyramid
What shaped structure is the US? - ANS diamond (a limited number of general community
hospitals at the base and limited of tertiary referral hospitals at the apex)
What do critics of the US system say - ANS not enough emphasis on primary care
non-system. fragmentation, chaos and disarray
uncontrolled growth and sky rocketed cost bc of lack of organization
quality of care suffers - hospitals performing small number of procedures instead of one
regional hospital performing all of that type of procedure may have worse outcomes
What do defenders of the dispersed model say - ANS promotes flexibility and convenience
emphasis on specialization and technology is in line with vales and expectations
convenient distance from home
What are the ways to classify healthcare professionals? - ANS direct pt contact (docs, PAs,
nurses, therapists)
those that provide support behind the scenes (pathologist, radiologists)
those concerned about the community, health delivery and cost (administrators, health
educators, biomedical engineers)
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