Medical Education
Healthcare Workforce
Financing Healthcare
Long Term Care
Public Health
100
Complexes of medical schools and other health professional schools such as nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied health affiliated with each other and with teaching hospitals and other research and clinical facilities.
What are Academic Health Centers
100
Healthcare system changes, including advancing technology, will likely result in new, more highly specialized health occupations. Hospitals' resistance to employing multi-skilled personnel is one of the expected effects of this development. True or False?
What is False? p. 248
100
Although the ACA will enact sweeping U.S. health care system reforms, one fundamental element of the system that will remain unchanged is
What is financing of health care expenditures through a combination of public and private sources?
100
services provided in both home and institutional settings for persons of all ages with varying levels of medical, social, and personal care needs
What is long term care?
100
Community efforts to cope with health problems arising from people living in groups
What is Public Health?
200
This entity is responsible for approving the content of post-medical school residency training.
What is Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education?
200
States try to protect the public from incompetent care by licensing certain health professions. Certification differs from licensing in that certification does what?
What is only recognizes special education or training?
200
The current highest personal care expenditure in the U.S. is for
What is hospital care?
200
Societal factors increases the need for formal long-term care services (3 parts)
What is women working outside the home; high divorce rates; smaller family size?
200
Models that take into account the vast number and interdependence of factors or determinants that impact the health status of groups of people
What are Ecological Models?
300
In colonial America, the primary mode of medical education was applied folklore using herbal remedies. True or False?
What is False? It was student apprenticeship with European trained physicians and on the job experience in one of the few existing hospitals.
300
Each year approximately 6,00 international medical graduates (IMGs) enter the US to practice. IMGs are vitally important to the healthcare delivery system because they?
What is they fill a shortfall in the number of residents required by US hospitals?
300
Major drivers of U.S. health expenditures include advancing medical technology, growth in the older population, specialty medicine, labor intensity, and reimbursement system incentives. True or False?
What is True?
300
Communal care settings operated by charitable community members and government supported almshouses
What is the history of institutional long term care?
300
Eliminate unpredictable federal budget appropriations for public health and prevention programs.
What is The primary purpose of the Prevention and Public Health Fund created by the ACA?
400
Medial societies were first established for the primary purpose of overseeing the construction of new medical schools? True or False?
What is False? It was for improving the quality of medical education and practice.
400
At the outset of the nurse practitioner movement, educational requirements were often limited to relatively short certificate programs. Today, it is generally accepted that nurse practitioners should be registered nurses with?
What is a master’s degree?
400
The establishment of Blue Cross for hospital care and shortly thereafter, Blue Shield for physicians’ services It signaled a new era in health care delivery and financing. caused for-profit insurers to use “experience” rather than “community” ratings to establish premiums. True or False?
What is False? Americans’ insulation from the knowledge of the costs of care; high increases in the use of hospitals; and dis-empowering efforts to enact a national, government health insurance plan
400
Care and assistance provided in the home by family members and friends
What is informal long term care system?
400
Public health’s major triumphs such as the virtual eradication of vaccine-preventable childhood diseases have resulted in those diseases’ disappearance from the public’s awareness and political attraction
What is one reason why public health suffers from a poor public image?
500
In order to provide direct patient care, physicians are required to complete a 3-7 year accredited residency program and pass a medical board exam of the state in which they will practice. True or False?
What is True?
500
Unlike medicine, dentistry essentially remains a “cottage industry,” primarily serving only those with dental insurance or who can afford to pay out-of-pocket. For this reason
What is Many of the population groups with the greatest need have no access to services?
500
The 1973 HMO legislation responded to which of the following national concerns
What is rapidly increasing Medicare expenditures and concerns about the quality of care?
500
Services that temporarily relieve informal caregivers through assistance in the home or through institutional placement on a temporary basis
What is respite care?
500
This event highlighted inadequate numbers of skilled public health professionals such as nurses, epidemiologists and lab workers
What is 911?
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