Which central agency manages the health care delivery system in the United States?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Department of Health and Human Services

What is the meaning of the term 'Access'?

Ability to get health care when needed

All citizens have health insurance coverage

Ability to get health care when needed

Employer-based health insurance

What was the function of a pest house in the preindustrial period?

To house people who had a contagious disease.

To provide refuge to those who were threatened by pests.

Development of the hospital and ______ happened almost hand in hand in a symbiotic relationship between the two.

professionalization of medical practice

cohesiveness of the medical profession

Why did physicians remain independent of corporate settings even after the medical profession became well recognized?

Physicians who took up practice in a corporate setting were castigated by the medical profession.

Hospitals were unable to pay high enough salaries to physicians.

Physicians disliked salary arrangements.

Licensure laws had not yet been passed.

Physicians who took up practice in a corporate setting were castigated by the medical profession.

Since the early 1900s, the burden of disease in developed countries has shifted.

from infectious to chronic disease

from chronic to infectious disease

The Flexner Report, published in 1910, reported on.

Standards of training in medical schools

Rates of deaths in U.S. hospitals

The state of medical specialization

What main purpose was served by an almshouse in the preindustrial period?

It performed general welfare and custodial functions

It was used to quarantine people who had contracted a contagious disease

It provided free medical care and drugs to ambulatory patients

It specialized in performing basic surgeries

It performed general welfare and custodial functions

Initially, what was the primary purpose of private health insurance in the U.S.?

Compensate for loss of income during sickness and temporary disability

Prevent national health insurance from taking hold

Provide coverage for major illnesses

Compensate for loss of income during sickness and temporary disability

What does the federal Ryan White CARE Act fund?

Development of treatment and care options for persons with HIV and AIDS

Care for underserved rural and urban populations

School-based health services in predominantly minority neighborhoods

Development of treatment and care options for persons with HIV and AIDS

What is the primary purpose of the National Health Service Corps?

To recruit physicians to provide services in physician shortage areas in the U.S.

To recruit physicians from abroad to work in the United States

To send U.S. physicians to developing countries to provide services to the indigent

To recruit physicians into the military

Which legislation created the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP)?

State Children's Health Insurance Act of 1997

Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1997

Lack of insurance can result in:

Decreased utilization of lower cost preventive services

Increased need for more expensive, emergency health care

The spread of infectious diseases

The U.S. healthcare system has been referred to "a paradox of excess and deprivation" because.

Some people receive too little care because they are uninsured.

Some people receive too little care because they are inadequately insured.

Some people receive too much care that is costly.

ISC HCISPP Practice Test 3 - Free Online Exam Prep & Questions

For most privately insured Americans, health insurance is:

employer based

financed by the government

privately purchased

none of the above

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