MHA 708 Exam D UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Define disparity - CORRECT ANSWER Lack of similarity or equality; inequality;
difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank
What defines health disparities? - CORRECT ANSWER Healthy People 2020
8 determinants to the scope of a health care problem (8 groups of people at risk) - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Racial inequities
2. Ethnic inequities
3. Gender
4. Sexual orientation
5. Age
6. Access to medical coverage/insurance coverage
7. Geographic location
8. Health literacy
Recognition of ___ is crucial to the understanding of ___ - CORRECT
ANSWER health determinants
Health disparities
*most significant* variable influencing populations is - CORRECT
ANSWER insurance status
5 populations that are disproportionate with burden of disease - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Racial and ethnic minorities
2. Disabled
3. Women
4. Economically and educationally disadvantaged
5. Medically underserved
Health disparities are difference in the .... (x6)
- according to Unequal Treatment (IOM) 2002 - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Incidence
2. Prevalence
3. Mortality
4. Burden of disease
5. Other
6 things that cause health disparities - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Insurance status
2. Socioeconomic status
, 3. Residential/geographic segregation
4. English is second language
5. Cultural and racial bias
6. Stereotyping
When was the Affordable Care Act published? - CORRECT ANSWER March 2010
What did the Affordable Care Act predict? - CORRECT ANSWER The greatest impact
to reducing disparities is to reduce financial barriers to care
What was the result of the publication of the Affordable Care Act? - CORRECT
ANSWER Increased access to care and health insurance for ~32M americans
3 goals of the affordable care act? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Increasing insurance
quality and affordability
2. Decreasing number of uninsured americans
3. Decreasing health care costs
T/F: The affordable care act was the largest overhaul in american health care since medicare
and medicaid in 1965 - CORRECT ANSWER T
2 definitions of health literacy - CORRECT ANSWER 1. The degree to which
someone can understand basic health information
2. The capacity that an individual can ascertain services to mae appropriate health decisions
T/F: There is no correlation between low health literacy and health disparities among
minorities - CORRECT ANSWER F
There is a high correlation
The PA profession was founded in part to do what? - CORRECT ANSWER Reach the
unserved and underserved
Homelessness is a product of.. - CORRECT ANSWER Large scale economic and
social processes (depression, recession, and massive changes in institutions)
Example of a massive change in institutions that caused homelessness - CORRECT
ANSWER Asylums were put under civil rights and many mentally ill were released
without proper care.. Resulting in 30% of homeless to be mentally ill
(occurred 1980's)
T/F: Many with mental illness have a double diagnosis of mental illness and substance abuse
- CORRECT ANSWER T
CORRECT ANSWERS
Define disparity - CORRECT ANSWER Lack of similarity or equality; inequality;
difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank
What defines health disparities? - CORRECT ANSWER Healthy People 2020
8 determinants to the scope of a health care problem (8 groups of people at risk) - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Racial inequities
2. Ethnic inequities
3. Gender
4. Sexual orientation
5. Age
6. Access to medical coverage/insurance coverage
7. Geographic location
8. Health literacy
Recognition of ___ is crucial to the understanding of ___ - CORRECT
ANSWER health determinants
Health disparities
*most significant* variable influencing populations is - CORRECT
ANSWER insurance status
5 populations that are disproportionate with burden of disease - CORRECT
ANSWER 1. Racial and ethnic minorities
2. Disabled
3. Women
4. Economically and educationally disadvantaged
5. Medically underserved
Health disparities are difference in the .... (x6)
- according to Unequal Treatment (IOM) 2002 - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Incidence
2. Prevalence
3. Mortality
4. Burden of disease
5. Other
6 things that cause health disparities - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Insurance status
2. Socioeconomic status
, 3. Residential/geographic segregation
4. English is second language
5. Cultural and racial bias
6. Stereotyping
When was the Affordable Care Act published? - CORRECT ANSWER March 2010
What did the Affordable Care Act predict? - CORRECT ANSWER The greatest impact
to reducing disparities is to reduce financial barriers to care
What was the result of the publication of the Affordable Care Act? - CORRECT
ANSWER Increased access to care and health insurance for ~32M americans
3 goals of the affordable care act? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Increasing insurance
quality and affordability
2. Decreasing number of uninsured americans
3. Decreasing health care costs
T/F: The affordable care act was the largest overhaul in american health care since medicare
and medicaid in 1965 - CORRECT ANSWER T
2 definitions of health literacy - CORRECT ANSWER 1. The degree to which
someone can understand basic health information
2. The capacity that an individual can ascertain services to mae appropriate health decisions
T/F: There is no correlation between low health literacy and health disparities among
minorities - CORRECT ANSWER F
There is a high correlation
The PA profession was founded in part to do what? - CORRECT ANSWER Reach the
unserved and underserved
Homelessness is a product of.. - CORRECT ANSWER Large scale economic and
social processes (depression, recession, and massive changes in institutions)
Example of a massive change in institutions that caused homelessness - CORRECT
ANSWER Asylums were put under civil rights and many mentally ill were released
without proper care.. Resulting in 30% of homeless to be mentally ill
(occurred 1980's)
T/F: Many with mental illness have a double diagnosis of mental illness and substance abuse
- CORRECT ANSWER T
