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HCM 310 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers to: - ANSWERSHealth promotion and specific protection American s spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies....

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HCM 310 Exam 1 Questions & Answers
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Of the levels of prevention associated with the natural history of disease, primary prevention refers to: -
ANSWERSHealth promotion and specific protection



American s spend billions of dollars each year on alternative and complementary therapies. This trend
has caused: - ANSWERSMany insurers and managed companies to consider them less expensive and
equally effective in keeping patients feeling well



The service priorities of the US health care system reflect America's fascination with dramatic high-tech
medicine. As a result - ANSWERSA. Little of the health care dollar is spent on prevention

B. The US system is the most expensive in the world

C. The US has the world's most advanced medical capability

D. All of the above*



Long term care needs of older, chronically ill Americans pose a particular delivery system challenge
because: - ANSWERSA. Most prefer to be cared for in nursing homes

B. Neither Medicare nor private insurance support ongoing, non-acute services*

C. Personal long term care insurance is not available in most states

D. None of the above



The trio of persistent concerns about the health care system are: - ANSWERSAccess, quality, and cost



Primary prevention - ANSWERSPrevent disease onset



Alternative therapies - ANSWERSUsed in place of conventional medicine and complimentary therapies;
used together with complementary medicine

, Catch 22 to dramatic high tech medicine - ANSWERS-As technology advances, cost rise with more people
denied of benefits

-Providers fond of technological ingenuity

-Best providers, technology often dedicated to futile terminal care

-Patient benefit, cost effectiveness, outcome improvement



Long term care - ANSWERSMore long-term care needed with increased longevity and aging population



Conflict of interest among physicians; ACA relation - ANSWERSCommercialism in related health care
businesses



Evolution of health insurance - ANSWERS-Private insurers

-Dramatic alteration in physician/patient relationship

-Distanced patients from awareness of costs & responsibility for decisions

-Created "business" of medicine



AMA's role - ANSWERSOpposed compulsory insurance; continues opposition to government involvement



What is the most significant social legislation passed by any Congress in the history of the U.S.? -
ANSWERSSocial Security Act of 1935



Social Security Act - ANSWERS-Gave federal aid to states for public health, welfare, maternal/child
health, crippled children.

-Legislative basis for most health, welfare programs including Medicare and Medicaid



Post WWII - ANSWERSCategorial programs addressed needs unmet by states, local government, private
sector



Kennedy-Johnson Era: - ANSWERS"Creative Federalism"

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