three components of health as defined by WHO - correct answer ✔✔Physical, social, mental wellbeing
Four measures of lack of health - correct answer ✔✔mortality, morbidity, disability, QALYs
Health determinants - correct answer ✔✔factors that influence one's health status
The leading cause of death in the US - correct answer ✔✔chronic diseases
Two types of allocative health policy - correct answer ✔✔1. distributive
2. redistributive
greatest influencer of the political system in regards to determinants of health policy - correct answer
✔✔stakeholders
Lobbying - correct answer ✔✔activities seeking to influence an individual or organization with decision-
making authority
Two types of health policy - correct answer ✔✔1. Allocative
2. Regulatory
The significance of social well-being as a part of health - correct answer ✔✔environmental factors
Who might a person have an agency relationship with - correct answer ✔✔their physician
legislator - correct answer ✔✔individual responsible for making or enacting laws
, Two components of policy formulation - correct answer ✔✔1. agenda setting
2. legislation development
Agenda setting - correct answer ✔✔the selection of a health problem as a policy target
Amendment - correct answer ✔✔change or addition to a current law or piece of legislation
Where does healthcare legislation go once it has been signed by the president - correct answer ✔✔it
becomes a law
Where can you find published presidential and federal agency documents - correct answer ✔✔federal
register
policy modification - correct answer ✔✔revisions to the rules or regulations pertaining to a piece of
original legislation to enhance its benefits to the targeted population
why is the US health policy not a comprehensive and coordinated area? - correct answer ✔✔policies
tend to be implemented in pieces, addressing market deficiency, at a time rather than in a
comprehensive, coordinated matter
Medicare & Medicaid were passed by? - correct answer ✔✔Lyndon B. Johnson
Administrative simplification - correct answer ✔✔Part of HIPAA and ACA, aimed to reduce administrative
costs through the adoption of electronic transactions and standardization of operating rules
Branch of state government that is the main lawmaking body and also approves the state's budget and
fulfills other functions of the government - correct answer ✔✔legislative branch
the power and responsibility of states to establish laws that protect the public's health and welfare
derive from - correct answer ✔✔the constitution
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