HPM EXAM 1 76
QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
100% CORRECT!!
HPM
Evatee 9/8/24 HPM
,HPM EXAM 1 76 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
What are the key components/building blocks of a healthcare system? Answer
- system building blocks?
leadership/ goverance, health care financing, health care financing, health
workforce, medical producers, information and research LEAD TO...
goals/outcomes?
improved health, responsiveness, financial risk protection, improved efficiency
Do you think US has the best healthcare system in the world? Why do Reid in
his Healing of America and Bodenheimer & Grumbach (the textbook) talk
about a paradox or a dilemma? How does Parente (#3) explain why we spend
so much on health care? Answer - No US does not. US has excess and
deprivation which is the paradox bc people get too much care which leads to
waste and spending. elderly uses too much and some are deprived of care and
excess.
we spend a lot because of med school, Doc's salaries, high drug prices, people
paying premiums, technology/ machines
How do we define the social determinants of health? How do these factors
determine our health? Answer - The social determinants of health are the
conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the
health system.
shaped by the distribution of money (economics), power and resources at
global, national and local levels (social policies and politics).
, The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities -
the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between
countries.
What are upstream factors? Answer - laws, policies, and underlying values that
shape-- income and wealth, education, employment, household composition
and experience with racial identification.
are closer to fundamental cause
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
what are midstream factors? Answer - factors that are strongly influenced by
upstream factors and that are likely to affect health. ex. housing,
transportation, communities
what are the downstream factors? Answer - factors are closer to the ends of
casual chains such as unhealthy diets, lack of exercise and smoking.
downstream may be shaped by upstream. ex. nutrition, exposure, stress,
health insurance, medicine
What is public health? What do we mean by the "upstream approach"? Answer
- public health is upstream. upstream approach aims to PREVENT illness or
death by focusing on the risk factors and change behavior. public health aims to
stop people from falling into the stream.
deals with health of populations
what are the two pathways that impacts health from race? Answer -
socioeconomic status and racism
differences between public health vs medicine Answer - public health
-multi-disciplinary science
QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
100% CORRECT!!
HPM
Evatee 9/8/24 HPM
,HPM EXAM 1 76 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
What are the key components/building blocks of a healthcare system? Answer
- system building blocks?
leadership/ goverance, health care financing, health care financing, health
workforce, medical producers, information and research LEAD TO...
goals/outcomes?
improved health, responsiveness, financial risk protection, improved efficiency
Do you think US has the best healthcare system in the world? Why do Reid in
his Healing of America and Bodenheimer & Grumbach (the textbook) talk
about a paradox or a dilemma? How does Parente (#3) explain why we spend
so much on health care? Answer - No US does not. US has excess and
deprivation which is the paradox bc people get too much care which leads to
waste and spending. elderly uses too much and some are deprived of care and
excess.
we spend a lot because of med school, Doc's salaries, high drug prices, people
paying premiums, technology/ machines
How do we define the social determinants of health? How do these factors
determine our health? Answer - The social determinants of health are the
conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the
health system.
shaped by the distribution of money (economics), power and resources at
global, national and local levels (social policies and politics).
, The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities -
the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between
countries.
What are upstream factors? Answer - laws, policies, and underlying values that
shape-- income and wealth, education, employment, household composition
and experience with racial identification.
are closer to fundamental cause
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
what are midstream factors? Answer - factors that are strongly influenced by
upstream factors and that are likely to affect health. ex. housing,
transportation, communities
what are the downstream factors? Answer - factors are closer to the ends of
casual chains such as unhealthy diets, lack of exercise and smoking.
downstream may be shaped by upstream. ex. nutrition, exposure, stress,
health insurance, medicine
What is public health? What do we mean by the "upstream approach"? Answer
- public health is upstream. upstream approach aims to PREVENT illness or
death by focusing on the risk factors and change behavior. public health aims to
stop people from falling into the stream.
deals with health of populations
what are the two pathways that impacts health from race? Answer -
socioeconomic status and racism
differences between public health vs medicine Answer - public health
-multi-disciplinary science
