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MHA 707 test 1 questions & answers 2023 2024The Importance of good health care in America: - Correct Answer - - altruistic oriented set of providers
and activities + huge industry + profitability
- 20% of our GDP is devoted to medical care and health promotion (value)
- 11% of all US jobs are in the health sector
- sizable share of our income is spent on the health care we need
Characteristics of US health system - Correct Answer - - not ordered or organized as a single enterprise
- actors and organizations often work independently
- little coordination between players
- system continues to evolve haphazardly
health maintenance - Correct Answer - - clear difference between health "maintenance" and "restoring"
health
- medical care systems care for people even if restoring health is impossible
fee for service - Correct Answer - a system under which doctors and hospitals receive a payment for
each service they provide
health care delivery - Correct Answer - 1. the importance of organizations in delivering care
2. the role of professionals in running our system
3. the emergence of new medical technology, smartphones, big data, new pharma.
4. tension between free market and government control
5. a dysfunctional payment system
, customer friendly - Correct Answer - the health system could do much more to improve the experience
of patients receiving care
1. improving quality
access to health care - Correct Answer - not always ensured. many rural areas have shortages of doctors
and other providers and many doctors refuse to see patients with certain types of insurance because of
low payment rates
2. improving access and coverage
Major Issues and Concerns - Correct Answer - 3. slowing growth of health care expenditures
4. encouraging healthy behavior
5. improving the public health system
6. addressing inequalities in access
stakeholder - Correct Answer - set of people who have a strong interest in how something in our society
is done.
1. consumers
2. providers
3. employers
4. insurers
5. public policy makers
workforce - Correct Answer - motivated principally by the social goal of keeping people healthy
consumer stakeholder - Correct Answer - - should be at the center of the health system
- sometimes bystanders in decisions affecting their own health and payment issues
- WANT access to quality and affordable health care for self and family
providers stakeholders - Correct Answer - - work to advance medical knowledge
- motivated by the social goal to keep everyone healthy
- face financial pressures to prevent health care costs from increasing
- WANT fair opportunities to earn incomes that reflect their expertise and workload
employers stakeholders - Correct Answer - - most offer insurance as a benefit
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