HSCI710 Quiz Drivers of Healthcare System

Question 1

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Which of the following are appropriate goals of the public health system? Select all that apply.

Promoting healthy behaviors

Ensuring safe sanitation and water supplies

Protecting the environment

Alleviating pain and suffering caused by major medical problems

Preventing epidemics

IncorrectQuestion 2

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has increased the health system’s focus on which of the following?

Cures

Prevention

Palliative care

Rehabilitation

Question 3

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Problems in the coordination, transparency, and accountability of medical care arise because of which of the following? Select all that apply.

Inadequate information on which patients can base medical choices

Providers’ refusal to disclose their prices to patients

Inequities in patients’ income and educational levels

Failure to encourage the use of second opinions

PartialQuestion 4

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Which of the following play a role in running the U.S. health care system? Select all that apply.

Policy makers

Policy advocates

Heads of technology companies

Parents

Executives of pharmaceutical businesses

Question 5

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On which of the following goals do public policy makers most often disagree?

Slower cost inflation in the health sector

Continued incorporation of state-of-the-art medical care and prevention strategies

Elevation of the role of quality in the provision of health care

Definition of health care access as a universal right

Question 6

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Which of the following is not a type of secondary prevention service?

Blood pressure screening

Pap smear

Mammogram

Immunization for childhood diseases

Question 7

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The idea behind the Triple Aim is for health care organizations to simultaneously pursue three goals. Which of the following are they? Select all that apply.

Reduce the per-capita cost of health care

Apply the principle of triage in delivering care

Improve the health of populations

Improve the patient experience of care

Question 8

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The hope that big data can solve many health-related problems underlies which of the following?

Personalized medicine

A more complex health enterprise

Better health care management

Universal health care

Question 9

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What feature of many other countries’ health care systems does the U.S. system lack?

A central government agency to control the delivery of health care

Specialized health care providers

Prevention services

Community health centers

Question 10

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Acute care encompasses which of the following functions? Select all that apply.

Emergency care

Trauma care

Prehospital emergency care

Acute care surgery

Immunization

IncorrectQuestion 11

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Encompassing about 42% of practicing U.S. physicians, the most common type of physician practice today is which of the following?

Multispecialty group practice

Solo practice

Single specialty group practice

Corporate medical practice

Question 12

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Which were among the achievements of health researchers in the nineteenth century? Select all that apply.

An understanding of the role of germs in communicating disease

Development of an efficient way to assess the cost of health care

Acknowledgement of the need for clean water and safe sanitation

Recognition of the need to pay doctors more

PartialQuestion 13

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Which of the following are purposes of tertiary prevention services? Select all that apply.

Preventing damage from an existing disease

Treating an urgent episode of illness or injury

Slowing the progression of a disease

Preventing complications of disease

Question 14

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The U.S. health care system rewards providers for which of the following?

Being efficient

Delivering effective care

Serving as many people as possible

Providing more, and more billable, services

IncorrectQuestion 15

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Which of the following is not a defining characteristic of the U.S. health care system?

Dysfunctional methods of payment and financing

Dominant role of politicians

Tension between the free market and government control

Lack of coordination between the many types of actors and organizations

IncorrectQuestion 16

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Which of the following is a collaborative network of providers who work together in a coordinated fashion to provide a continuum of care to a particular patient population or community?

An integrated delivery system

An urgent care center

A public health agency

A home health care organization

IncorrectQuestion 17

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According to the American Telemedicine Organization, how many U.S. hospitals are participating in some form of telemedicine?

About 10%

More than a quarter

More than half

About 80%

Question 18

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The relatively new concept of public health is distinguished by which of the following?

Recognition of the role of health care professionals

Wider health care access

Focus on the lives of patients outside health care organizations

Disease prevention

Question 19

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What proportion of its economic resources does the United States devote to medical care and the promotion of health?

About 5%

Nearly 10%

About 13%

Nearly 20%

Question 20

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Which organization defines health as a “state of complete physical, mental and social ‘wellbeing’ and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?”

The United Nations

The American Medical Association

The World Health Organization

The Institute of Medicine

Question 21

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Programs to help people lose weight or stop smoking are examples of which type of prevention?

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

Acute

Question 22

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what percentage of emergency room visits in 2015 were actually urgent, requiring medical attention within 15 to 60 minutes?

0.7%

7.4%

29.8%

61.2%

PartialQuestion 23

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Which of the following are among the health care professionals who typically provide primary care? Select all that apply.

Physicians

Dentists

Physician assistants

Nurse practitioners

IncorrectQuestion 24

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Which of the following is a type of care provided to terminally ill patients?

Subacute care

Rehabilitative care

Hospice care

Long-term care

IncorrectQuestion 25

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What percent of U.S. health care costs is attributable to the treatment of patients who have multiple chronic conditions?

15%

25%

66%

80%