ASSESSMENT STUDY SHEET 2026 GRADED
A+.
⫸ What are the 4 structures of Healthcare? Answer: Single-player,
universal coverage-multiplayer, non-universal coverage-multiplayer,
out of pocket
⫸ Single-player Answer: national gov't provides universal health care
⫸ universal coverage-multiplayer Answer: employers provide health
insurance, services provided by private entities, gov't controls prices
so insurers are non profit-produces
⫸ non-universal coverage - multiplayer Answer: gov't provides
insurance for most citizens and services are provided by private
entities
⫸ Out of pocket Answer: individuals may or may not have insurance
and have to pay for services themselves
⫸ 6 Building blocks of a health care system Answer: Facilites,
workforce, medical products, leadership/governance, financing, info
systems
,⫸ building block of facilites Answer: services are delivered effective,
safe, quality personal ,and non-personal health interventions to those
who need, when and where they are needed, with minimum waste of
resources
⫸ building block of workfoce Answer: well preforming health
workforce works responsive, fair, efficient to achieve best healthcare
outcomes, given available resources and circumstances.
(sufficient staff, fairly distributed, competent, responsive, productive)
⫸ building block of medical products Answer: well function systems-
equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines, technology;
assures quality, safety, efficacy, cost-effective, and scientifically
sound
⫸ building block of leadership/goverance Answer: ensuring strategic
policy frameworks exist, combined with effective oversight, coalition-
building, regulation, attention to system-design and accountability
⫸ building block of financing Answer: good health financing-
adequate funds for health needed services, protect from financial
catastrophe, impoverishment associated with pay, provides incentives,
and users to be efficient
⫸ building block of information systems Answer: well functioning
health information systems - ensure production, analysis,
, dissemination, use of reliable and timely information on health
determinants, health system performance, and health status.
⫸ What are health care facilities Answer: hospital-owned physicians
practices, ambulatory clinics (part of hospital), or gov't-owned
federally qualified health centers (FQHC), and community health
centers
⫸ examples of health care practitioners/ technical occupations
Answer: physicians, nurses, therapist, techinicians
⫸ examples of health care support occupations Answer:
aides/assistants to nurses, physical therapist, occupational therapist
⫸ examples of medical products Answer: equipment/pharmaceuticals
(prescribed drugs, gauze, sterile needles, lab chemicals, furniture)
⫸ is there a ministry of health in the US Answer: No
⫸ What are the 3 role levels of the gov't Answer: federal, state, local
⫸ what is the role of gov't Answer: leadership directly/indirectly
(health service deliveries, supplies, payers has opportunity to drive
market shifts through operation of own health service delivery and
payer programs)