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Title: Essentials of the U.S. ealth Care System

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Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: The vulnerability model is an integrated approach to studying the susceptibility of certain populations experiencing good health.
	A: T
	B: F

2: The Health Care for the Homeless Program is financed by
	A: the Bureau of Primary Health Care
	B: the local governments
	C: the local health commissioners
	D: the local mayors

3: Disability refers to
	A: impairments of bodily functions
	B: restrictions of performing activities of daily living
	C: lack of illnesses
	D: both A and B

4: The Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities Program became
	A: the first state program that encouraged the development of new, comprehensive full-time school-based primary care programs serving vulnerable children
	B: the first federal program that encouraged the development of new, comprehensive full-time school-based primary care programs serving vulnerable children
	C: the first city program that encouraged the development of new, comprehensive full-time school-based primary care programs serving vulnerable children
	D: none of the above

5: The mental health system is composed of one system that provides services to individuals with only insurance coverage.
	A: T
	B: F

6: Vulnerability represents
	A: the interaction of multiple factors that individuals have control over.
	B: the middle class who are insured
	C: the interaction of multiple factors that individuals have little or no control over.
	D: the upper class who feel vulnerable without the best insurance plan

7: Who are the AAPIs?
	A: American Association of Pacific Islanders
	B: American Association of Principal Investigators
	C: Asian Americans and Principal Investigators
	D: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

8: Minorities are more likely to be economically disadvantaged than Whites.
	A: T
	B: F

9: Which of the following is not a health concern of women?
	A: greater morbidity
	B: poorer health outcome
	C: higher chance of developing more acute and chronic illnesses
	D: higher chance of receiving second-rate health services

10: Health concerns of children include lack of insurance, vaccinations, and delayed access to medical care
	A: T
	B: F

11: Developmental vulnerability refers to
	A: the slow and separate physical and emotional changes that characterize childhood
	B: the slow and cumulative physical and emotional changes that characterize childhood
	C: the rapid and cumulative physical and emotional changes that characterize childhood
	D: the rapid and separate physical and emotional changes that characterize childhood

12: What is one of the challenge faced in rural health?
	A: high population density
	B: surplus of health care professionals in rural settings
	C: poverty/poor economic conditions
	D: easy access to transportation

13: Which of the following tends to be insured?
	A: poor workers
	B: less educated workers
	C: ethnic minorities
	D: full-time workers

14: Women constitute about 20% of the U.S. homeless adult population
	A: T
	B: F

15: How is mental health provided in the U.S.?
	A: Through only private resources
	B: Through only public services
	C: A and B
	D: none of the above

16: Who is not one of the major mental health professionals?
	A: psychologists
	B: social workers
	C: medical students
	D: therapists

17: What causes AIDS?
	A: HIV
	B: lack of insurance
	C: Infectious air-borne pathogen
	D: none of the above

18: Effective January 1, 2003, the United States Office of Management and Budget announced seven official racial categories
	A: T
	B: F

19: Black Americans are more likely
	A: to have longer life expectancies than whites
	B: to have lower infant mortality rates than whites
	C: to have higher age-adjusted death rates for leading causes of death
	D: to be less economically disadvantaged than whites

20: The differences between men and women are equally pronounced for mental illness
	A: T
	B: F

21: "New morbidities" include
	A: drug abuse
	B: alcohol abuse
	C: family and neighborhood violence
	D: all of the above

22: There are no significant differences across the various racial/ethnic groups on health.
	A: T
	B: F

23: The Community Health Center Program was established in
	A: 1969 to improve access to health care services for low-income families
	B: 2005 to improve access to health care services for low-income families
	C: 1969 to improve access to health care services for high-income families
	D: 2005 to improve access to health care services for high-income families

24: Mental illness are
	A: common psychiatric illnesses affecting children only
	B: not common
	C: common psychiatric illnesses affecting adults
	D: none of the above

25: Women in the U.S. enjoy a life expectancy almost eight years longer than that of men, but they suffer greater morbidity and poorer health outcomes.
	A: T
	B: F

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