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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: There are no racial and economic disparities in the health care system
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

2: The World Health's Organization's definition of health is
	A: absence of illness or disease
	B: state of optimum capacity of an individual to perform his or her expected social roles
	C: state of physical and mental well-being that facilitates the achievement of individual goals
	D: the well-being of the whole person

3: Illness is different from a disease in that illness
	A: is the person's own perceptions and evaluation of how he or she feels
	B: determined by medical profession's evaluation
	C: requires therapeutic intervention
	D: has three different classifications

4: One of the purposes of the Healthy People Initiative is to
	A: only serve the uninsured
	B: integrate medical care with preventive services
	C: make more money for the government
	D: substitute all of the government programs with this initiative

5: The system of health care delivery in the U.S. is predominantly private.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

6: In a social justice system, the equitable distribution of health is
	A: the individual's responsibility
	B: the society's responsibility
	C: the employer's responsibility
	D: the employee's responsibility

7: Demand-side rationing means the
	A: demanding more health care
	B: rationing the physician's hours
	C: rationing the quantity and type of health services
	D: demanding for more insurance coverage

8: Policy interventions use _______ to affect the health of the population
	A: money
	B: social/public policy
	C: hospital's policies
	D: the local police

9: Under the social justice system, inability to obtain medical services because of a lack of financial resources is considered unjust.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

10: An acute condition is not
	A: severe
	B: short
	C: long
	D: treatable

11: Community health assessment is a method used for conducting
	A: of broad assessments of populations at the federal level
	B: of broad assessments of populations in other countries at the federal level
	C: of broad assessments of populations at the local or state level
	D: of broad assessments of vulnerable populations only

12: From an economic perspective, curative medicine seems to reproduce decreasing returns in health improvement while health care expenditures increase.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: An epidemic occurs when
	A: a small number of people get a general disease
	B: a large number of people get a general disease
	C: a small number of people get a specific disease
	D: a large number of people get a specific disease

14: In the United States, the principles of market justice and social justice
	A: complement each other
	B: negate each other
	C: are similar to each other
	D: are not related to each other

15: Which answer is not one of the four major determinants of health?
	A: Environment
	B: Religion
	C: Heredity
	D: Behavior

16: Quality of life refers to the overall satisfaction with life during and following a person's encounter with the health delivery system.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

17: What type of health insurance is based on the market justice?
	A: publicly financed Medicaid
	B: private, employer-based health insurance
	C: no insurance
	D: publicly financed Medicare

18: Community-based strategies have the particular benefit of
	A: having less people to help out
	B: receiving more money than national-based strategies
	C: mobilizing resources at the local level to address problems
	D: needing greater amount of money than national-based strategies for their programs

19: Holistic medicine seeks to treat the individual
	A: based on the individual's disease
	B: based on the individual's personality
	C: as a whole person
	D: based on insurance status

20: Healthy behavior can be modified through
	A: only financial assistance
	B: educational programs and incentives
	C: police enforcement
	D: only community churches

21: A chronic condition is more severe than an acute condition.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

22: What is the role of health risk appraisal?
	A: To evaluate risk factors and their health consequences in individuals
	B: To evaluate the costs of medical care
	C: To evaluate risk factors for only the uninsured
	D: To monitor the growing of health care expenditures

23: The medical model emphasizes
	A: clinical diagnosis only
	B: medical intervention only
	C: clinical and medical interventions
	D: neither clinical or medical intervention

24: Heredity is a key determinant of health because genetic factors predispose individuals to certain diseases.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

25: Morbidity is defined as
	A: disease or disability
	B: activities of daily living
	C: death rates
	D: recovery period

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