US Health Care Systems exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention
refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER - D. Health promotion and specific protection
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 benefit coverage for certain treatments.
The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic
high-tech medicine. As a result: - CORRECT ANSWER - A. little of the health care dollar
is spent on prevention.
B. the US system is the most expensive in the world.
C. the US has the world's most advanced medical capability.
D. all of the above
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system
challenge because: - CORRECT ANSWER - Neither Medicare nor private insurance
support ongoing, non-acute services.
The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - CORRECT ANSWER -
Access, quality, and cost
In the past, patient behaviors within the health care delivery system were formed from the
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 roles for patients' participation in health care decisions with "shared decision-
making
, The U.S. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power,
control of delivery system parameters for the majority of Americans and influence on consumers
and providers of health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is the most influential:
- CORRECT ANSWER - Government and private health insurers
otential conflicts of interest occur when physicians own or invest in businesses (e.g. diagnostic,
medical supply companies) to which they can refer patients to generate profits. In response to
these physician conflict of interest issues: - CORRECT ANSWER - The ACA includes
"Sunshine provisions" require reporting of all financial transactions and transfers of value
between pharmaceutical/biologic product 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
nations. In relationship with expenditures, the U.S. population health status ranking on critical
indicators in comparison with those other developed nations is: - CORRECT ANSWER -
dismally lower
In the natural history of a disease, the pre-pathogenesis period refers to - CORRECT
ANSWER - 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 after: - CORRECT ANSWER - Baylor University Hospital's school teachers plan
The initial reaction of the American Medical Association to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans
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: - CORRECT ANSWER - the Social Security Act of 1935
The most significant health care advances of the first half of the 20th century were in the area of:
- CORRECT ANSWER - development of vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control
infectious diseases
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention
refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER - D. Health promotion and specific protection
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 benefit coverage for certain treatments.
The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic
high-tech medicine. As a result: - CORRECT ANSWER - A. little of the health care dollar
is spent on prevention.
B. the US system is the most expensive in the world.
C. the US has the world's most advanced medical capability.
D. all of the above
Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system
challenge because: - CORRECT ANSWER - Neither Medicare nor private insurance
support ongoing, non-acute services.
The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - CORRECT ANSWER -
Access, quality, and cost
In the past, patient behaviors within the health care delivery system were formed from the
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 roles for patients' participation in health care decisions with "shared decision-
making
, The U.S. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power,
control of delivery system parameters for the majority of Americans and influence on consumers
and providers of health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is the most influential:
- CORRECT ANSWER - Government and private health insurers
otential conflicts of interest occur when physicians own or invest in businesses (e.g. diagnostic,
medical supply companies) to which they can refer patients to generate profits. In response to
these physician conflict of interest issues: - CORRECT ANSWER - The ACA includes
"Sunshine provisions" require reporting of all financial transactions and transfers of value
between pharmaceutical/biologic product 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
nations. In relationship with expenditures, the U.S. population health status ranking on critical
indicators in comparison with those other developed nations is: - CORRECT ANSWER -
dismally lower
In the natural history of a disease, the pre-pathogenesis period refers to - CORRECT
ANSWER - 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 after: - CORRECT ANSWER - Baylor University Hospital's school teachers plan
The initial reaction of the American Medical Association to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans
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: - CORRECT ANSWER - the Social Security Act of 1935
The most significant health care advances of the first half of the 20th century were in the area of:
- CORRECT ANSWER - development of vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control
infectious diseases
