HSMT 2103 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Vulnerable Populations - Answers those with a disproportionate burden of illness and injury and
who experience worse health outcomes
Underserved Populations - Answers a group with economic barriers or cultural and/or linguistic
barriers to primary medical care services
Health Disparities - Answers differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of
diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the
U.S.
Priority Populations - Answers groups needing to be addressed ahead of others in terms of
research, policy, support, and funding, which include: women, children, racial and ethnic
minorities, the elderly, low income, inner-city, rural, and those with special healthcare needs.
Social Determinants - Answers things outside the health care system, such as living or working
conditions, geographic isolation, income and socioeconomic status, education, and access to
insurance.
Cultural Competence - Answers a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come
together in a system, agency, or among professionals, that enables effective work in cross-
cultural situations
Common Law (AKA - Judge Made Law) - Answers a form of law that depends on judicial
decisions as opposed to legislative acts and is based on custom and precedent, unwritten in
statute or code, that constitutes the basis of the English and U.S. legal systems, except in
Louisiana.
Interpretive Justice (aka judicial authority) - Answers an academic approach to defining the
justice system so that legal standards can be better understood---for example, defining what the
U.S. constitution means and how it applies to specific cases.
Precedent - Answers the term refers to legal cases (at common law) that were decided by
judges.
Civil Law - Answers concerned with wrongs against a particular person or organization and
regulates ordinary private matters, as distinct from criminal, political, or military matters.
Criminal Law - Answers the portion of the law concerned with wrongs against society as a
whole, even if only a particular individual is involved.
Torts - Answers under civil law, a category of "wrongful acts" committed against another person
without a preexisting contract, for which courts seek to determine and apply remedies.
The Joint Commission - Answers a not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits
Vulnerable Populations - Answers those with a disproportionate burden of illness and injury and
who experience worse health outcomes
Underserved Populations - Answers a group with economic barriers or cultural and/or linguistic
barriers to primary medical care services
Health Disparities - Answers differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of
diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the
U.S.
Priority Populations - Answers groups needing to be addressed ahead of others in terms of
research, policy, support, and funding, which include: women, children, racial and ethnic
minorities, the elderly, low income, inner-city, rural, and those with special healthcare needs.
Social Determinants - Answers things outside the health care system, such as living or working
conditions, geographic isolation, income and socioeconomic status, education, and access to
insurance.
Cultural Competence - Answers a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come
together in a system, agency, or among professionals, that enables effective work in cross-
cultural situations
Common Law (AKA - Judge Made Law) - Answers a form of law that depends on judicial
decisions as opposed to legislative acts and is based on custom and precedent, unwritten in
statute or code, that constitutes the basis of the English and U.S. legal systems, except in
Louisiana.
Interpretive Justice (aka judicial authority) - Answers an academic approach to defining the
justice system so that legal standards can be better understood---for example, defining what the
U.S. constitution means and how it applies to specific cases.
Precedent - Answers the term refers to legal cases (at common law) that were decided by
judges.
Civil Law - Answers concerned with wrongs against a particular person or organization and
regulates ordinary private matters, as distinct from criminal, political, or military matters.
Criminal Law - Answers the portion of the law concerned with wrongs against society as a
whole, even if only a particular individual is involved.
Torts - Answers under civil law, a category of "wrongful acts" committed against another person
without a preexisting contract, for which courts seek to determine and apply remedies.
The Joint Commission - Answers a not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits
