U.S Health Care Systems Ch 1-3 Review
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 - Health promotion and specific protection
Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This
trend has caused: - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - little of the health care dollar is
spent on prevention.
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
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 - Health promotion and specific protection
Americans spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This
trend has caused: - CORRECT ANSWER - 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 - little of the health care dollar is
spent on prevention.
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
