Reference no: EM133617480
True or False Questions
1. The Project Bioshield Act of 2004 allows for the emergency use of countermeasures, even if they are measures that lacked final FDA approval.
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False
2. Narrower problem statements may require more diverse information in terms of background and may consider a wider range of issues in the paper's landscape section.
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False
3. The background element is the key to the policy analysis because it frames the current problem.
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False
4. The fundamental barrier to universal coverage is that our success in insuring most of the nation's population has crowded out our political capacity to insure the rest.
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False
5. Practical factors can be included in the landscape section of a health policy analysis.
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False
6. Educational attainment and corresponding income levels tend to be strong predictors of individual and population health.
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False
7. The twin concepts of entrepreneurialism and individualism have had a real impact on health policy decisions.
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False
8. Medicare is a federally funded health insurance program and covers ONLY the elderly.
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False
9. Because the background section provides information necessary to understand the problem, it is essential to understand the knowledge level of the client when this section is being constructed.
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False
10. Overall, more people die each year from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.
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11. Generally speaking, ERISA prohibits individuals to recover damages for death and injuries caused by substandard medical professional conduct to the extent that the individual receives her health coverage through a private employer-sponsored benefit plan.
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False
12. Social service expenditures far exceed health care expenditures in the United States.
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False
13. Until World War II, more soldiers died from infectious diseases than from direct combat injuries.
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False
14. Medicaid is jointly funded by federal and state funds.
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False
15. Aligning Forces for Quality is a federal government effort that established alliances in 16 communities.
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False