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HCAD Midterm Questions with Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
What percent of all jobs in the United States are in the health sector?
A. 8%
B. 11%
C. 15%
D. 27% Answer: B. 11%
What proportion of its economic resources does the United States devote to
medical care and the promotion of health?
A. About 5%
B. Nearly 10%
C. About 13%
D. Nearly 20% Answer: D. Nearly 20%
Access to medical care in the United States depends on which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Race
B. Age
C. Medical need
D. Geographic location
E. Income level Answer: A.Race, D.Geographic Location, E.Income Level
Which of the following are appropriate goals of the public health system? Select
all that apply.
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A. Promoting healthy behaviors
B. Ensuring safe sanitation and water supplies
C. Protecting the environment
D. Alleviating pain and suffering caused by major medical problems
E. Preventing epidemics Answer: A.promoting healthy behaviors, B.ensuring
safe sanitation and water supplies, C.protecting the environment, E.preventing
epidemics
Which of the following play a role in running the U.S. health care system?
Select all that apply.
A. Policy makers
B. Policy advocates
C. Heads of technology companies
D. Parents
E. Executives of pharmaceutical businesses Answer: A,policy makers, B.policy
advocates, C.heads of technology companies, E.executives of pharmaceutical
business
Key social factors that predict an individual's health include all the following
except which?
A. Gender
B. Family income
C. Availability of educational opportunities
D. Social connections Answer: A.gender
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Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of many U.S. patients'
experience?
A. Ignorance of the price of a service until after delivery
B. Long waits for elective services
C. Equal access to health care
D. Agreement about whether health care is a good or a right Answer:
A.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?
A. Legislators
B. Employers
C. Insurers
D. Providers Answer: C.insurers
Which stakeholder in the U.S. health care system most likely views health
insurance premiums as a cost of doing business?
A. Employees
B. Employers
C. Insurers
D. Public policy makers Answer: B.employers
Which organization defines health as a "state of complete physical, mental and
social 'wellbeing' and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?"
A. The United Nations
B. The American Medical Association
HCAD Midterm Questions with Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
What percent of all jobs in the United States are in the health sector?
A. 8%
B. 11%
C. 15%
D. 27% Answer: B. 11%
What proportion of its economic resources does the United States devote to
medical care and the promotion of health?
A. About 5%
B. Nearly 10%
C. About 13%
D. Nearly 20% Answer: D. Nearly 20%
Access to medical care in the United States depends on which of the following?
Select all that apply.
A. Race
B. Age
C. Medical need
D. Geographic location
E. Income level Answer: A.Race, D.Geographic Location, E.Income Level
Which of the following are appropriate goals of the public health system? Select
all that apply.
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A. Promoting healthy behaviors
B. Ensuring safe sanitation and water supplies
C. Protecting the environment
D. Alleviating pain and suffering caused by major medical problems
E. Preventing epidemics Answer: A.promoting healthy behaviors, B.ensuring
safe sanitation and water supplies, C.protecting the environment, E.preventing
epidemics
Which of the following play a role in running the U.S. health care system?
Select all that apply.
A. Policy makers
B. Policy advocates
C. Heads of technology companies
D. Parents
E. Executives of pharmaceutical businesses Answer: A,policy makers, B.policy
advocates, C.heads of technology companies, E.executives of pharmaceutical
business
Key social factors that predict an individual's health include all the following
except which?
A. Gender
B. Family income
C. Availability of educational opportunities
D. Social connections Answer: A.gender
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Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of many U.S. patients'
experience?
A. Ignorance of the price of a service until after delivery
B. Long waits for elective services
C. Equal access to health care
D. Agreement about whether health care is a good or a right Answer:
A.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?
A. Legislators
B. Employers
C. Insurers
D. Providers Answer: C.insurers
Which stakeholder in the U.S. health care system most likely views health
insurance premiums as a cost of doing business?
A. Employees
B. Employers
C. Insurers
D. Public policy makers Answer: B.employers
Which organization defines health as a "state of complete physical, mental and
social 'wellbeing' and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?"
A. The United Nations
B. The American Medical Association
