HSEM 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Developed Country, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill

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Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers to:
health education and specific protection
The point at which medical science becomes able to detect the presence of a particular condition.
clinical horizon
How many Americans are expected to be insured by 2019 if the Affordable Care Act is successful?
32 million
U.S. annual health care expenditures far outstrip those of 7 other developed nations. In relationship
with expenditures, U.S. health population status ranking on critical indicators in comparison with those
other developed nation is:
Dismally lower
The U.S. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power, control of
delivery system parameters for the majority of Americans, and influence on consumers and providers of
health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is most influential:
government and private health insurers
Americans spend $9 billion + each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend has
caused:
many private insurers and Medicare and Medicaid to provide benefit coverage for certain treatments
The American Medical Association's initial reaction to Blue Cross hospital insurance plans suggested the
plans
were unsound and unethical
Which of the following is a major health care concern for the United States
quality, access, cost
the explosion of science and technology in the 1970s resulted in which of the following
medical school efforts...; higher cost of health care; encouragement for specialization
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the first half of the 20th century saw advances that led to:
prevention/cure of infectious diseases
as early as the 19th century some Americans carried "health insurance" through employers, fraternal
orders, guilds, trade associations, unions or commercial insurance companies. However unlike health
insurance of today, these insurance policies only provided for:
fixed payments t compensate for lost wages due to injury, sickness, or disability
Blue Cross Hospital Insurance, the predominant form of health insurance for decades, was modeled
after
Baylor University Hospital's school teachers plan
The major health care advances of the second half of the 20th century were in the area of
vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and control infectious diseases, tranquilizers, the birth control pill
Almost every medical or technological advance seems to be accompanied by new and vexing financial
ethical dilemmas
True
From post WW2 to about the mid-1970s, projections showed an impending shortage of physicians. In
response, medical schools double capacity and foreign-trained physicians were encouraged to come to
the United States. Unfortunately this led to a shortage in
primary care physicians
Of the five major groups who have played key roles in influencing health services, this group has worked
towards eliminating high risk consumers from insurance pools
insurers
The monolithic model of health information exchange architecture is best described as model in which
all participating institutions periodically send copies of clinical data to one central repository where all
data reside together in one format
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Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers to: health education and specific protection. The point at which medical science becomes able to detect the presence of a particular condition. clinical horizon. U. s. annual health care expenditures far outstrip those of 7 other developed nations. In relationship with expenditures, u. s. health population status ranking on critical indicators in comparison with those other developed nation is: The u. s. healthcare delivery system has numerous stakeholders. In terms of financial power, control of delivery system parameters for the majority of americans, and influence on consumers and providers of health care, which of the following pairs of stakeholders is most influential: government and private health insurers. Americans spend billion + each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend has caused: many private insurers and medicare and medicaid to provide benefit coverage for certain treatments.

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