Economic Basics
(Chapter 5)
Policy and the Policy Making Process (Chapter 2)
The Art Structuring and Writing a Health Policy Analysis (Chapter 10)
Definitions and Sources of Laws (Chapter 3)
Individual Rights and the Health Care System
100
The economic term for a limited supply of goods?
What is Scarce Resources?
100
A course of action adopted and pursued by a government, party, statesman, or other individual or organization.
What is a Policy?
100
This section informs the reader why the particular problem has been chosen for analysis.
What is The Background Section?
100
A charter that both establishes a government and delineates fundamental rights and obligations of that government and of individuals who fall within the territory.
What is a Constitution?
100
This statute was in-acted to give everyone the right to access emergency hospital services; also known as the "the patient anti-dumping statute"
What is EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)?
200
This is the concept associated with the quantity of goods and services.
What is Demand?
200
This body of the Federal Government is granted authority under the Constitution to enact "necessary and proper" laws.
What is Congress?
200
The first step in writing a policy analysis which clearly defines the problem you are analyzing.
What is the Problem Statement?
200
The division of authority in our legal system not based at the state level... also plays a role in the development of health policy and law.
What is Federalism?
200
This legal decision by the Supreme Court established a woman has a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
300
The concept where it is determined how responsive demand is to a change in price or change in income. (Think rubber band)
What is Elasticity?
300
These have been referred to as the "workhorses" of Congress; they are where key decisions are made, and where legislative drafting takes place.
What is a Committee?
300
This section provides the overall context for the analysis by identifying key shareholders and the factors that must be considered when analyzing the problem.
What is the Landscape Section?
300
This branch of our government has the final word on constitutionality of laws created by the political branches of government?
What is The Supreme Court?
300
This branch of government is the sole enforcer of race/ethnicity discrimination violations.
What is the Federal Government?
400
This is when one one company controls all the "supply" in one industry
What is a Monopoly?
400
This position is the head of the federal executive branch.
What is the President?
400
This section of a health policy analysis explains why, despite drawbacks, the chosen action is the best one to take based on the client's values and power.
What is the Recommendations Section?
400
These are based on the traditions and customs of society; also referred to as case law.
What is Common Law
400
This act is not specifically a health law, but is intended to extend to the disabled the maximum opportunity for community integration into many sectors of society (employment, public service, public accommodations, telecommunications...)
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
500
When our federal resources are used to control a market failure (like what happened in the banking industry).
What is Government Intervention?
500
This department includes many agencies, such as Administration on Aging, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health.
What is The Department of Health and Human Services?
500
This section of a health care policy provides an analysis of each choice by stating the positive and negative aspects of each.
What is The Options Section?
500
This doctrine is one of the primary sources of American law that guarantees several important individual rights
What is The Bill of Rights?
500
This hotly debated program is associated with Rights Under Health care Financing Laws.
What is Medicaid?
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