Chapter 11 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Chapter 11  Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

Multiple Choice

1. “Public Health” is most broadly defined as:

A. medical services funded by federal and state governments
B. community efforts to cope with health problems arising from people living in groups
C. personal confinement due to quarantine
D. local community-funded clinical services

Ans.: B
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2. As a professional health- oriented discipline, public health is unique in what way?

A. it applies principles from a narrowly prescribed set of ancient doctrines
B. it uses an interdisciplinary approach and methods with emphasis on preventive strategies, links with government and politics and dynamic adaptations to new problems
C. it rejects clinical interventions in favor of sociologic and psychological approaches to population health status
D. historically, it has received top priority support from the U.S. federal government

Ans.: B
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3. Ecological models as applied to public health are best described as:

A. Intervention models based on cause and effect
B. Models with a primary emphasis on air, water and housing quality for a particular population group
C. Models emphasizing education and income status of vulnerable populations
D. Models that take into account the vast number and interdependence of factors or determinants that impact the health status of groups of people

Ans.: D
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4. Colonial America’s public health practices in the form of almshouses and town-employed physicians were modeled upon:

A. Roman principles of quarantine and water sanitation
B. England’s “Poor Laws”
C. Epidemiologic studies on the spread of infectious disease
D. Greek “mind and body” theories

Ans.: B
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5. Government-supported public hospitals frequently provide the following services that are financially unattractive to other community hospitals:

A. complicated procedures such as cardio-thoracic surgery and neurosurgery
B. burn care, psychiatric medicine and trauma care
C. chronic disease patient education
D. outpatient primary care

Ans.: B
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