Chapter 5 The Health Care Delivery System

Chapter 5  The Health Care Delivery System

Complete Chapter Questions And Answers
 

Sample Questions

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The term health care delivery system refers to a:
a.
method for providing services to meet the health-related needs of individuals
b.
collaboration of provider organizations
c.
conglomerate of commercial health care suppliers
d.
single-payer system

ANS: A
The health care delivery system is a method for providing services to meet the health needs of individuals.

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2. The nurse provides care in which the focus is on the entire person, including physiologic, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. The nurse is aware that this is an example of:
a.
holistic care
c.
primary care
b.
managed care
d.
secondary care

ANS: A
Holistic care provides care with the focus on the entire person, including physiologic, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects.

PTS: 1 DIF: Comprehension REF: White (2010)

3. Promotion of wellness and prevention of illness is the focus of which level of care?
a.
managed
c.
subacute
b.
primary
d.
tertiary

ANS: B
The purpose of primary care is to promote wellness and to prevent illness or disability. A primary care provider (a physician or a nurse practitioner) coordinates the care of each client. The primary care provider assists the client in adopting or maintaining health-promoting behavior with an emphasis on illness prevention. Some examples include teaching individual clients how to select and follow a well-balanced, nutritious diet or to adopt a regular exercise program such as walking daily; having clients who smoke begin a smoking cessation program; or monitoring client immunizations to see that they are current.

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4. Through the use of a traditional medical model, the U.S. health care system could BEST be described as focusing on:
a.
emergent problems
c.
illness
b.
health
d.
prevention

ANS: C
Under the traditional medical model, the U.S. health care system was not a health care system but rather an illness care system, with services directed at care after disease and disability and not on prevention.

PTS: 1 DIF: Comprehension REF: White (2010)

5. Which of these components are part of the secondary care system?
a.
diagnosis and treatment services
b.
health promotion practices
c.
protection against specific illnesses
d.
restorative and rehabilitative activities

ANS: A
The purpose of secondary care is to provide early diagnosis and treatment of disease. Secondary care services are usually provided by hospitals or ambulatory care centers. Some examples include hospitalizing a client for treatment of a heart attack, prescribing medications to control high blood pressure or high cholesterol levels, or having a suspicious breast lesion surgically removed.

PTS: 1 DIF: Comprehension REF: White (2010)