embodies whole healthcare debate (Policy Drivers) Access quality and cost - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅•
Iron Triangle,
as many people as possible should be able to receive health care services, everyone should get
healthcare, those that pay should get it, - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Access:
health care services should be of the highest possible quality, effectiveness: observed results meet
expected results, do people get better?, - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Quality:
healthcare services should not cost too much, government, individual, society, efficiency: doing the
most with lesser amount of money (ideal) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Cost:
Nixon -1970 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅When were national health plans proposed
Policy makers usually discover they can only achieve 2/3 of these objectives, not all 3 at the same time,
health care managers must make trade offs since these cannot be achieved at the same time, - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅How many of these objectives can policy makers acheive? why
• 49% male,
50% female,
72% Caucasian,
AA increased faster than total,
Hispanic- d - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅residents in US,
Demographics are the most recent statistical characteristics of a population.. Commonly examined
demographics include gender, race, age, disabilities, mobility, home ownership, employment status, and
even location. 308 million oubled since 1990, 15% of Americans ages 5 of older have a disability ADA
1990 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Demographics
Not all are curable, lifestyle ones ARE) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Can you prevent disease?
,1. women live longer than men, reproductive healthcare,
general healthcare,
income for woman less than men ($.71 per every $1 a man makes)
, violence against women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gender issues:
1. Singapore best.
2005- Infant mortality rate charts.. US = 7 deaths/1,000 live births -
Slovakia below US,
US is 2nd to last - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅How healthy are Americans?
1. Japan = #1,
Mexicans live 4 years less than US and spend 30% of what we do. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅By life
expectancy
$2.5 trillion of GDP - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what is spent on healthcare in US?
$8,000/person, Taiwan spends $800/person - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅healthcare cost per person?
based on wellness model, healthier lifestyles, diet, safe sex practices, preventative measures, vaccines,
clean air act - toxic waste cites contained - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Leading causes of disease have
declined...
doing the most with the least amount of money (ideal plan) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Efficiency
hospitals (40%),
nursing or residential care facilities (22%),
physicians' offices (16%) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅: 3 major places of employment in health care:
,1. professional (43.3%),
service (31.8%),
office and administrative (18%), management, business, financial (under 5%)
411,000 self-employed physicians and dental workers, b/w 2008 and 2018 - 22%
new jobs will be in health care, increase income care by 50%, medical assistants by 34%, PTs by 33%, Pas
by 39% - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Health care occupation categories
management, marketing accounting ($), production information technology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1.
activities required in order for a business to provide products and services to their customers (business
functions)
sole proprietorship
partnership
, other types: limited partnership (LP)
, limited liability company (LLC),
limited liability partnership (LLP), corporation (Abbott Lab),
stock exchange opportunities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Forms of business ownership
investor owned,
profits are main objective,
reinvest or redistribute to investor owners
, provide quality services,
managers expected to minimize shareholder wealth,
taxes paid by shareholders,
ex: HCA and General Electric - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Forms of business organization:
1. owned by community, serve community, not maximize profit, profits held as cash reserves, invested
back into organizations, run as a business to ensure survival- Carle charges for parking, usually tax
exempt from federal and property taxes, provide public benefic, services are not profitable, fund raise,
grants, donations, voluntary services, ex: Red Cross, American Cancer Society - example of donations,
, can be large or small, Not-for-profits must be a corporation and have a board of directors, 501 (c3) - tax
exemption for those that donate - gifts must be verified, public charity: receives substantial income from
general public and government. Private foundation - receives income from investments and
endowments, makes grants to other organizations. Private Operating Foundation- use earning and
assets to conduct its tax exempt purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not-for-Profit:
tax exemption for those that donate - gifts must be verified, public charity: receives substantial income
from general public and government. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅501 (c3)
receives income from investments and endowments, makes grants to other organizations. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Private foundation -
- use earning and assets to conduct its tax exempt purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Private Operating
Foundation
the amount of goods that we're willing to buy at a given price. Lower price to increase demand, too
much product? Lower price. Healthcare does not follow the supply/demand pattern.
More doctors? = more surgeries? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Demand:
1. businesses continually assess their relation to their environment, done through - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅integrating business and its environment:
SWOT: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅SWOT
relief of poor, distressed, and underprivileged, advancement of religion education, and science or
lessening neighborhood tensions, eliminating prejudice and discrimination, defending human and civil
rights, combating community deterioration and Juvenile delinquency - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Charitable:
1. private or free enterprise system, competitive selling market, central feature: competition- in order
for business to succeed, they must provide a product that customers want like value, measured by
quality and customer satisfaction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Impact of economy: