HSA 408 Chapter 1&2 Exam QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What shapes virtually all aspects of the healthcare system, from structure and organization, to service
delivery, to financing, and to administrative and judicial oversight? - CORRECT ANSWER
Federal and State Policy and Law
What have always been fundamental in shaping the practice of individual health care in the United
States and to achieving both everyday and landmark public health improvements? - CORRECT
ANSWER Policy and Law
Professional digests that survey and report on the subjects of health policy and law typically include
what? - CORRECT ANSWER advertising and marketing of health services and products, the
impact of health expenditures on federal and state budgets, antitrust concerns, healthcare contracting,
employment issues, patents, taxation, healthcare discrimination and disparities, consumer proection,
bioterrorism, health insurance, prescription drug regulation, physician-assisted suicide, biotechology,
human subject research, patient privacy, and confidentiality, organ availablity and donation and more.
Choices made by policymakers and decisions handed down through the legal system impact how we
do what? - CORRECT ANSWER approach, experience, analyze, and research all of these and
other specific aspects of the healthcare system
What have long played a seminal role in everyday public health activities? - CORRECT ANSWER
Policy and Law
What are examples of everyday public health activities? - CORRECT ANSWER food
establishment inspections, occupational safety standards, polices related to health services for persons
wiwth chronic health conditions such as diabetes, and policies and laws affecting the extent to which
public health agencies are able to gauge whether individuals in a community suffer from certain
health conditions
What are examples of historic public health accomplishments? - CORRECT ANSWER water
and air purification, reductin in the spread of communicable diseases through compulsory
immunization laws, reductioin in the number of automobile-related deaths through seatbelt and
consumer safety laws, and several others
, T/F All policies and laws always cut in favor of what many people believe to be in the best interests of
public health and welfare. - CORRECT ANSWER False, not all policies and laws always cut in
favor of what many people believe to be in the best interests of public health welfare. A policy or law
might favor the economic interests of a private, for-profit company over the residents of the
community in which the company is located.
Why do laws not always cut in favor of what many people believe to be in the best interests of public
health and welfare? - CORRECT ANSWER One main focus of policy and law in the realm of
public health is on locating the appropriate balance between public regulation of private individuals
and corporations and the ability of those same parties to exercise rights that allow them to function
free of overly intrusive government intervention
How do policymakers and the legal system reach a satisfactory public health/private right balance? -
CORRECT ANSWER The competing interrests at the heart of public health are mainly
addressed through two types of policies and laws: those that define the functions and powers of public
health agencies and those that aim to directly protect and promote health.
These powers represent the inherent authority of state and local government to regulate individuals
and private business in the name of public health promotion and protection. - CORRECT ANSWER
police powers
What word never appears in the U.S. Constitution? - CORRECT ANSWER health
The U.S. Constituion conferes powers on the federal government that allow it to do what? -
CORRECT ANSWER Allow it to engage in public health promotion and disease prevention
activities
T/F There are multiple ways to conceptualize the many important topics that fall under the umbrella
of health policy and law. - CORRECT ANSWER True
What are the three concepts of health policy and law? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. one premised
on the broad topical domains of health policy and law, 2. one based on prevailing historical factors, 3.
one focused on the individuals and entires impacted by a particular policy or legal determiniation
What are the Broad Topical Domais of the Frist Framework? - CORRECT ANSWER health
care, public health, bioethics
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What shapes virtually all aspects of the healthcare system, from structure and organization, to service
delivery, to financing, and to administrative and judicial oversight? - CORRECT ANSWER
Federal and State Policy and Law
What have always been fundamental in shaping the practice of individual health care in the United
States and to achieving both everyday and landmark public health improvements? - CORRECT
ANSWER Policy and Law
Professional digests that survey and report on the subjects of health policy and law typically include
what? - CORRECT ANSWER advertising and marketing of health services and products, the
impact of health expenditures on federal and state budgets, antitrust concerns, healthcare contracting,
employment issues, patents, taxation, healthcare discrimination and disparities, consumer proection,
bioterrorism, health insurance, prescription drug regulation, physician-assisted suicide, biotechology,
human subject research, patient privacy, and confidentiality, organ availablity and donation and more.
Choices made by policymakers and decisions handed down through the legal system impact how we
do what? - CORRECT ANSWER approach, experience, analyze, and research all of these and
other specific aspects of the healthcare system
What have long played a seminal role in everyday public health activities? - CORRECT ANSWER
Policy and Law
What are examples of everyday public health activities? - CORRECT ANSWER food
establishment inspections, occupational safety standards, polices related to health services for persons
wiwth chronic health conditions such as diabetes, and policies and laws affecting the extent to which
public health agencies are able to gauge whether individuals in a community suffer from certain
health conditions
What are examples of historic public health accomplishments? - CORRECT ANSWER water
and air purification, reductin in the spread of communicable diseases through compulsory
immunization laws, reductioin in the number of automobile-related deaths through seatbelt and
consumer safety laws, and several others
, T/F All policies and laws always cut in favor of what many people believe to be in the best interests of
public health and welfare. - CORRECT ANSWER False, not all policies and laws always cut in
favor of what many people believe to be in the best interests of public health welfare. A policy or law
might favor the economic interests of a private, for-profit company over the residents of the
community in which the company is located.
Why do laws not always cut in favor of what many people believe to be in the best interests of public
health and welfare? - CORRECT ANSWER One main focus of policy and law in the realm of
public health is on locating the appropriate balance between public regulation of private individuals
and corporations and the ability of those same parties to exercise rights that allow them to function
free of overly intrusive government intervention
How do policymakers and the legal system reach a satisfactory public health/private right balance? -
CORRECT ANSWER The competing interrests at the heart of public health are mainly
addressed through two types of policies and laws: those that define the functions and powers of public
health agencies and those that aim to directly protect and promote health.
These powers represent the inherent authority of state and local government to regulate individuals
and private business in the name of public health promotion and protection. - CORRECT ANSWER
police powers
What word never appears in the U.S. Constitution? - CORRECT ANSWER health
The U.S. Constituion conferes powers on the federal government that allow it to do what? -
CORRECT ANSWER Allow it to engage in public health promotion and disease prevention
activities
T/F There are multiple ways to conceptualize the many important topics that fall under the umbrella
of health policy and law. - CORRECT ANSWER True
What are the three concepts of health policy and law? - CORRECT ANSWER 1. one premised
on the broad topical domains of health policy and law, 2. one based on prevailing historical factors, 3.
one focused on the individuals and entires impacted by a particular policy or legal determiniation
What are the Broad Topical Domais of the Frist Framework? - CORRECT ANSWER health
care, public health, bioethics
