AHP101 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PROFESSIONS
STUDY GUIDE 2024/2025 EXAM PREDICTIONS
1. **Which service helps improve health by protecting against diseases, reducing their impact, or
detecting them early when they are easier to treat?**
- a) Emergency Medical Services
- b) Preventative Health Services
- c) Rehabilitation Services
- d) Palliative Care Services
**Answer:** b) Preventative Health Services
2. **What is MRSA known for causing in communities like schools and daycare centers?**
- a) Respiratory infections
- b) Skin infections
- c) Digestive issues
- d) Eye infections
**Answer:** b) Skin infections
3. **Which U.S. government agency monitors infectious diseases and develops infection control
measures for hospitals?**
- a) Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- b) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- c) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- d) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
**Answer:** b) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
4. **What term refers to technology that improves communication and efficiency in providing health
care and is used by the government to monitor quality and cost?**
- a) Electronic Commerce
- b) Health Information Technology (Health IT)
- c) Social Media Platforms
- d) Online Banking Systems
**Answer:** b) Health Information Technology (Health IT)
5. **Which of the following is a highly dangerous and antibiotic-resistant bacterial strain?**
- a) Escherichia coli
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- b) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- c) Streptococcus pneumoniae
- d) Salmonella enterica
**Answer:** b) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
6. **What has led to an increase in chronic and degenerative diseases?**
- a) Improved vaccination rates
- b) Increased number of elderly people
- c) Better nutrition
- d) Decreased pollution levels
**Answer:** b) Increased number of elderly people
7. **Which of the following is NOT a way that access to health care has been expanded?**
- a) Providing coverage for preexisting conditions in people under 65
- b) Expanding Medicaid eligibility
- c) Creating health insurance marketplaces
- d) Including preexisting conditions coverage for people over 75
**Answer:** d) Including preexisting conditions coverage for people over 75
8. **Which statement is correct regarding public health and medical care?**
- a) Both focus equally on prevention and treatment
- b) Public health emphasizes prevention, while medical care focuses on treatment
- c) Medical care emphasizes prevention, while public health focuses on treatment
- d) Neither focuses on prevention
**Answer:** b) Public health emphasizes prevention, while medical care focuses on treatment
9. **True or False? Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are fee-for-service groups that agree to join
the Shared Savings Program for at least 3 years.**
- a) True
- b) False
**Answer:** a) True
10. **Which requirement ensures the same health benefits for all Americans regardless of their
insurance source?**
- a) Medicare Advantage
- b) Essential Health Benefits
- c) Health Savings Accounts
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- d) Premium Tax Credits
**Answer:** b) Essential Health Benefits
11. **What is the name of the annual telephone survey conducted by states to identify behaviors that
increase the risk for chronic diseases?**
- a) National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
- b) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- c) Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
- d) National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
**Answer:** b) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
12. **When the Affordable Care Act started, the federal government funded 100% of Medicaid
expansion costs for 2014-2016. What percentage did this funding decrease to in 2020 and beyond?**
- a) 80%
- b) 85%
- c) 90%
- d) 95%
**Answer:** c) 90%
13. **What is the main purpose of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation?**
- a) Increase healthcare costs
- b) Develop new medical devices
- c) Control costs while improving healthcare quality
- d) Train new healthcare professionals
**Answer:** c) Control costs while improving healthcare quality
14. **True or False? Preventive health care plays a key role through expanded, federally funded primary
care clinics and public health clinics funded by city and state governments.**
- a) True
- b) False
**Answer:** a) True
15. **True or False? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated the requirement for everyone to have
health insurance coverage.**
- a) True
- b) False
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**Answer:** a) True
16. **Which government-funded program provides individual healthcare services for elderly people?**
- a) Medicaid
- b) Medicare
- c) Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- d) Tricare
**Answer:** b) Medicare
17. **Which term describes healthcare costs that arise from providing free care to patients who cannot
pay?**
- a) Copayments
- b) Deductibles
- c) Uncompensated Care
- d) Premiums
**Answer:** c) Uncompensated Care
18. **True or False? There are more private, for-profit hospitals than all other types of hospitals
combined.**
- a) True
- b) False
**Answer:** b) False
19. **Which was NOT an issue when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was launched?**
- a) Website technical problems
- b) Confusion about enrollment processes
- c) Preventive services unavailable to those with prior cancer or high blood pressure diagnoses
- d) Limited choices of insurance plans in some areas
**Answer:** c) Preventive services unavailable to those with prior cancer or high blood pressure
diagnoses
20. **True or False? As of August 2020, Medicaid expansion was implemented in 38 states including
Washington, D.C.; two states were considering expansion; and 12 states were not expected to expand
Medicaid.**
- a) True
- b) False
**Answer:** a) True
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