PHLT 412 Exam 1 Texas A & M University-College Station | UPDATED
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Question:
Health Policies
Answer:
-Focuses on health related issues
-Policies implement rules with the goal of trying to promotes a positive behavior
Question:
Public Health Policies
Answer:
-examples: requiring vaccinations in order to attend public school
-Sanitation laws: clean water for showers
-Seat belts
-Food safety regulations
Question:
Law
Answer:
Something we pass in congress and it's more specific than a policy
Question:
Types of policy and laws
Answer:
-Define the functions an dowers of public health agencies
-Aims to directly protect and promote health
Question:
Health Policy and Law conceptual framework
Answer:
-Study based on the broad topical domains of health policy and law (individual right in
PH and healthcare quality-- bioethics)
,-Study based on prevailing historical factors (health reform and government health
insurance programs)
-Study based on the individuals and entities impacted by a particular policy as legal
determination (perspective of key stakeholders)
Question:
Bioethics
Answer:
-Health related ethical issues raised in the context of medical practice or biomedical
research
-Morality and legality of Abortion
-End of life support
Question:
Professional Autonomy
Answer:
1800s -mid 1900s, doctors had high amount of power (in charge of clinic, finances,
business)
Question:
Social contract
Answer:
- Split power between doctor and management
- Sees physicians as just one of several stakeholders
Question:
Free Market
Answer:
-Competition allows increased continued education and improvement
-Commercial competition and consumer empowerment will lead to the most efficient
healthcare system
Question:
, Stakeholders
Answer:
Those whose interests are impacted by certain policy choices or by the passage or
interpretation of law
-individuals or patients
-healthcare providers
-insurance companies
-employers
-government (hospital development)
-nurses & doctors, other healthcare professionals
Question:
Policy makers
Answer:
-Make authoritative decisions: made by an individual or group with the power to
implement the decision
-Legislators, senators, the house, president, governors, cabinet officials, public health
commissioners
Question:
Levels of government
Answer:
-Federal level (give minimum guidelines)
-State level (most important policies made at this level-- Healthcare policies are made
the state level)
-Local Level (in charge of implementation)
Question:
Branches of government
Answer:
Each branch has equal power, checks and balances
•Legislative
-State: legislature
Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Question:
Health Policies
Answer:
-Focuses on health related issues
-Policies implement rules with the goal of trying to promotes a positive behavior
Question:
Public Health Policies
Answer:
-examples: requiring vaccinations in order to attend public school
-Sanitation laws: clean water for showers
-Seat belts
-Food safety regulations
Question:
Law
Answer:
Something we pass in congress and it's more specific than a policy
Question:
Types of policy and laws
Answer:
-Define the functions an dowers of public health agencies
-Aims to directly protect and promote health
Question:
Health Policy and Law conceptual framework
Answer:
-Study based on the broad topical domains of health policy and law (individual right in
PH and healthcare quality-- bioethics)
,-Study based on prevailing historical factors (health reform and government health
insurance programs)
-Study based on the individuals and entities impacted by a particular policy as legal
determination (perspective of key stakeholders)
Question:
Bioethics
Answer:
-Health related ethical issues raised in the context of medical practice or biomedical
research
-Morality and legality of Abortion
-End of life support
Question:
Professional Autonomy
Answer:
1800s -mid 1900s, doctors had high amount of power (in charge of clinic, finances,
business)
Question:
Social contract
Answer:
- Split power between doctor and management
- Sees physicians as just one of several stakeholders
Question:
Free Market
Answer:
-Competition allows increased continued education and improvement
-Commercial competition and consumer empowerment will lead to the most efficient
healthcare system
Question:
, Stakeholders
Answer:
Those whose interests are impacted by certain policy choices or by the passage or
interpretation of law
-individuals or patients
-healthcare providers
-insurance companies
-employers
-government (hospital development)
-nurses & doctors, other healthcare professionals
Question:
Policy makers
Answer:
-Make authoritative decisions: made by an individual or group with the power to
implement the decision
-Legislators, senators, the house, president, governors, cabinet officials, public health
commissioners
Question:
Levels of government
Answer:
-Federal level (give minimum guidelines)
-State level (most important policies made at this level-- Healthcare policies are made
the state level)
-Local Level (in charge of implementation)
Question:
Branches of government
Answer:
Each branch has equal power, checks and balances
•Legislative
-State: legislature
