HSA 3111 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026
Understanding individual parts of a system as well as how these parts interact through recurring
patterns to produce a whole describes which theory? - ANS Systems thinking theory
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim for populations consists of which of the
following dimensions? - ANS Experience of Care, Population health and Per capita cost
Groups of interacting, interrelate, or independent components that form a complex and unified
whole best describes a - ANS system
System thinking could be applied to health because the model recognized the interaction of
which factors? - ANS Psychological, biological and sociological
George Engel 1970s "biopsychosocial model" was a better way to understand - ANS disease
expression
True/False? A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or entity interested in an issue,
topic, or outcome. - ANS True
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, True/False? In the US, the delivery of health services is mostly in private hands, and so health
care is fully governed by free-market forces - ANS False
Health determinants include which of the following five categories? - ANS Policymaking,
social factors, health services, individual behavir, and biology and genetics
Attributes of Complex Adaptive Systems include which of the following? - ANS Agents,
interconnections, self-organization, emergence and co-evolution
Allowing healthcare professionals to assess the interactions and interdependencies among parts
of a system and seek out opportunities to generate sustainable solutions describes: -
ANS systems thinking
One of the most significant health policy changes the past decades occurred with the Ronald
Reagan administrations. Which of the following answer accurately describes the policy change?
- ANS Implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system in hospitals
As the Depression of 1929 shook the nation, it also threatened the financial security of both
physicians and hospitals. Baylor University Hospital created the model for which hospital
insurance? - ANS Blue Cross
The primary purpose of Medicare was to - ANS provide health insurance for older Americans
Which of the following is NOT one of the three main health care concerns? - ANS Choice
Health care in the US dramatically improved during the 1900s. In the second half of the century,
the technological advances led to - ANS all of these are correct
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ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026
Understanding individual parts of a system as well as how these parts interact through recurring
patterns to produce a whole describes which theory? - ANS Systems thinking theory
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim for populations consists of which of the
following dimensions? - ANS Experience of Care, Population health and Per capita cost
Groups of interacting, interrelate, or independent components that form a complex and unified
whole best describes a - ANS system
System thinking could be applied to health because the model recognized the interaction of
which factors? - ANS Psychological, biological and sociological
George Engel 1970s "biopsychosocial model" was a better way to understand - ANS disease
expression
True/False? A stakeholder is an individual, group, organization, or entity interested in an issue,
topic, or outcome. - ANS True
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, True/False? In the US, the delivery of health services is mostly in private hands, and so health
care is fully governed by free-market forces - ANS False
Health determinants include which of the following five categories? - ANS Policymaking,
social factors, health services, individual behavir, and biology and genetics
Attributes of Complex Adaptive Systems include which of the following? - ANS Agents,
interconnections, self-organization, emergence and co-evolution
Allowing healthcare professionals to assess the interactions and interdependencies among parts
of a system and seek out opportunities to generate sustainable solutions describes: -
ANS systems thinking
One of the most significant health policy changes the past decades occurred with the Ronald
Reagan administrations. Which of the following answer accurately describes the policy change?
- ANS Implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system in hospitals
As the Depression of 1929 shook the nation, it also threatened the financial security of both
physicians and hospitals. Baylor University Hospital created the model for which hospital
insurance? - ANS Blue Cross
The primary purpose of Medicare was to - ANS provide health insurance for older Americans
Which of the following is NOT one of the three main health care concerns? - ANS Choice
Health care in the US dramatically improved during the 1900s. In the second half of the century,
the technological advances led to - ANS all of these are correct
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