MHA 707 MODULE A TEST EXAM 2024
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Health Care Systems - correct answer✔✔ •All persons, institutions, and processes supporting diagnosis,
treatment or mitigation of health problems
•For legitimized patients by appropriate providers
•Definitions of health problems (e.g., obesity)
•Diagnosis & treatment models
•Social position, training, and authority of healers - correct answer✔✔ What are the different variations
of healthcare systems?
Health
Other Definitions of health:
"the ability to conduct a life that is as socially and economically rewarding
as available physical and financial resources will allow" ([ABIM] Conference,
1981)
"the condition of being sound in body, mind, and spirit, especially free of
disease or infirmity." (Webster's, 2019) - correct answer✔✔ "Complete physical, mental, and social well-
being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 1948)
This is the definition of...
•Genetic inheritance - also epigenetics (gene-environmental interactions)
•Physical environment - ex: exposures, housing, availability of healthy foods
•Social & economic environment - ex: education, income, employment,
, community, social support and culture
•Health behavior - ex: exercise, smoking, diet (often shaped by the preceding)
•Health care - accessible, affordable, quality and adequate intensity - correct answer✔✔ What are the
determinants of health?
Health Behavior - correct answer✔✔ •Behavior that affects health, usually negatively
•Implicated in most "leading causes of death" in the United States
•Heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory diseases, etc.
•Common target for health improvement efforts
•Healthy People 2020
•Smoking, alcohol/drug abuse, diet, lack of exercise - correct answer✔✔ What are some examples of
health behavior?
allopathic medicine - correct answer✔✔ Western medicine is also called ________________ after the
medical faction (allopath) that gained dominance in the 19th century over groups of healers, including
homeopaths, chiropractors, and osteopaths (Starr, 1982)
•Restore health
•Prevent worsening of problems - correct answer✔✔ What are the main goals of healthcare as a
determinant of health?
healthcare - correct answer✔✔ Failure to address the determinants of health results in increased need
for what?
Primary, secondary, and tertiary - correct answer✔✔ What are the three levels of prevention?
Primary prevention - correct answer✔✔ ___________is concerned with eliminating risk
factors/development for a disease or injury before it occurs
tertiary prevention - correct answer✔✔ ____________ attempts to eliminate or moderate disability
associated with advanced disease
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Health Care Systems - correct answer✔✔ •All persons, institutions, and processes supporting diagnosis,
treatment or mitigation of health problems
•For legitimized patients by appropriate providers
•Definitions of health problems (e.g., obesity)
•Diagnosis & treatment models
•Social position, training, and authority of healers - correct answer✔✔ What are the different variations
of healthcare systems?
Health
Other Definitions of health:
"the ability to conduct a life that is as socially and economically rewarding
as available physical and financial resources will allow" ([ABIM] Conference,
1981)
"the condition of being sound in body, mind, and spirit, especially free of
disease or infirmity." (Webster's, 2019) - correct answer✔✔ "Complete physical, mental, and social well-
being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 1948)
This is the definition of...
•Genetic inheritance - also epigenetics (gene-environmental interactions)
•Physical environment - ex: exposures, housing, availability of healthy foods
•Social & economic environment - ex: education, income, employment,
, community, social support and culture
•Health behavior - ex: exercise, smoking, diet (often shaped by the preceding)
•Health care - accessible, affordable, quality and adequate intensity - correct answer✔✔ What are the
determinants of health?
Health Behavior - correct answer✔✔ •Behavior that affects health, usually negatively
•Implicated in most "leading causes of death" in the United States
•Heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory diseases, etc.
•Common target for health improvement efforts
•Healthy People 2020
•Smoking, alcohol/drug abuse, diet, lack of exercise - correct answer✔✔ What are some examples of
health behavior?
allopathic medicine - correct answer✔✔ Western medicine is also called ________________ after the
medical faction (allopath) that gained dominance in the 19th century over groups of healers, including
homeopaths, chiropractors, and osteopaths (Starr, 1982)
•Restore health
•Prevent worsening of problems - correct answer✔✔ What are the main goals of healthcare as a
determinant of health?
healthcare - correct answer✔✔ Failure to address the determinants of health results in increased need
for what?
Primary, secondary, and tertiary - correct answer✔✔ What are the three levels of prevention?
Primary prevention - correct answer✔✔ ___________is concerned with eliminating risk
factors/development for a disease or injury before it occurs
tertiary prevention - correct answer✔✔ ____________ attempts to eliminate or moderate disability
associated with advanced disease
