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HCAD midterm exam Questions with
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
What percent of all jobs in the United States are in the health care sector?
Answer: 11%
What proportion of its economic resources does the united states devote to
medical care and the promotion of health Answer: nearly 20%
Access to medical care in the United States depends on which of the following?
Answer: Race, geographic location, and income level
Which of the following are appropriate goals of the public health system?
Answer: Promoting healthy behaviors, ensuring safe sanitation and water
supplies, protecting the environment, and preventing epidemics
Which of the following play a role in running the U.S health care system?
Answer: Policy makers, policy advocates, heads of technology companies, and
executives of pharmaceutical businesses
Kay social factors that predict an individual's health include all of the following
except which? Answer: Gender
Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of many U.S patients'
experience? Answer: Ignorance of the price of a service until after delivery
Which stakeholder often plays the role of referee in the U.S health care system?
Answer: Insurers
Which stakeholder in the U.S health care system most likely views health
insurance premiums as a cost of doing business? Answer: Employers
Which organization defines health as a "state of complete physical, mental and
social 'wellbeing' and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?" Answer:
The world health organization
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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? Answer: Prevention
You drive your friend to an urgent care center for treatment of a suspected
sprained ankle. There she will receive which type of care? Answer: ambulatory
care
The idea behind the triple aim for health care organizations to simultaneously
peruse three goals. Which of the following are they? Answer: Reduce the per-
capita cost of health care, improve the health populations, improve the patient
experience of care
The ACA created health care facilities to give states an option for providing
patient centered, medical home-type services to Medicaid beneficiaries with
severe or multiple chronic conditions. These facilities are called? Answer:
Health homes
The US health system is shifting its focus to wellness and prevention. How
should emphasis on prevention alter the delivery of health services in a
community? Answer: Primary, secondary, and tertiary services
Geography is a major determinant of health outcomes in the United States
because it is a proxy for which of the following? Answer: wealth/poverty
Which of the following are among policies intended to fight the epidemic of
obesity in the United States? Answer: Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and
junk foods, calorie labels on restaurant menus, and government encouragement
to reformulate popular snack foods with less sugar, salt, or fat
What percent of U.S health care delivery is provided through government-run
entities such as the veterans health administration? Answer: 25%
Nearly a third of U.S. health care dollars are spent on which of the following?
Answer: hospital care
A controversial provision of the affordable care act was the individual mandate.
What did this mandate require? Answer: That most people have insurance
HCAD midterm exam Questions with
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
What percent of all jobs in the United States are in the health care sector?
Answer: 11%
What proportion of its economic resources does the united states devote to
medical care and the promotion of health Answer: nearly 20%
Access to medical care in the United States depends on which of the following?
Answer: Race, geographic location, and income level
Which of the following are appropriate goals of the public health system?
Answer: Promoting healthy behaviors, ensuring safe sanitation and water
supplies, protecting the environment, and preventing epidemics
Which of the following play a role in running the U.S health care system?
Answer: Policy makers, policy advocates, heads of technology companies, and
executives of pharmaceutical businesses
Kay social factors that predict an individual's health include all of the following
except which? Answer: Gender
Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of many U.S patients'
experience? Answer: Ignorance of the price of a service until after delivery
Which stakeholder often plays the role of referee in the U.S health care system?
Answer: Insurers
Which stakeholder in the U.S health care system most likely views health
insurance premiums as a cost of doing business? Answer: Employers
Which organization defines health as a "state of complete physical, mental and
social 'wellbeing' and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?" Answer:
The world health organization
, 2
The patient protection and affordable care act of 2010 has increased the health
system's focus on which of the following? Answer: Prevention
You drive your friend to an urgent care center for treatment of a suspected
sprained ankle. There she will receive which type of care? Answer: ambulatory
care
The idea behind the triple aim for health care organizations to simultaneously
peruse three goals. Which of the following are they? Answer: Reduce the per-
capita cost of health care, improve the health populations, improve the patient
experience of care
The ACA created health care facilities to give states an option for providing
patient centered, medical home-type services to Medicaid beneficiaries with
severe or multiple chronic conditions. These facilities are called? Answer:
Health homes
The US health system is shifting its focus to wellness and prevention. How
should emphasis on prevention alter the delivery of health services in a
community? Answer: Primary, secondary, and tertiary services
Geography is a major determinant of health outcomes in the United States
because it is a proxy for which of the following? Answer: wealth/poverty
Which of the following are among policies intended to fight the epidemic of
obesity in the United States? Answer: Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and
junk foods, calorie labels on restaurant menus, and government encouragement
to reformulate popular snack foods with less sugar, salt, or fat
What percent of U.S health care delivery is provided through government-run
entities such as the veterans health administration? Answer: 25%
Nearly a third of U.S. health care dollars are spent on which of the following?
Answer: hospital care
A controversial provision of the affordable care act was the individual mandate.
What did this mandate require? Answer: That most people have insurance
