HLTH-4780 Lecture 1: Exam 1 Preface and Ch 1 Questions
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Study questions for the first exam: hlth 478-001. Pressing health policy questions simultaneously implicate politics, law, ethics and social mores all of which come with their own set of competing interests and advocates. Health policy debates often involve deeply personal matters pertaining to one"s quality of life. It is often not abundantly clear how to begin tackling a particular health policy problem. The goal of health policy is to promote and protect the health of individuals and populations bound by common circumstances. Law is inherent to the expression of public policy major changes to policies often demand the creation, amendment or rescission of laws: according to this preface, what are the two landmark achievements of the affordable care. Major reform of the private health insurance market and relatedly a redistribution of resources to groups and individuals who by virtue of indigence and/or illness, have historically been excluded from the health insurance market and/or healthcare system.
