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1. Tertiary prevention reduces the impact of an already established disease by reducing disease related complications. It focuses on rehabilitation and monitoring of diseased individuals.
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False
2. What is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration?
Ensures that labeling of food has accurate information
Improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare
Performs research towards curing disease
All are correct statements
3. Many health care systems are evaluated using the Iron Triangle-- a concept that focuses on the balance of three factors--quality, cost and accessibility to health care.
True
False
4. Public health focuses on the relationship between a provider and a patient looking primarily for guidance on how to cure their diseases.
True
False
5. Very few insurance policies require a contribution from the covered individual which may be a copayment, deductible or coinsurance which is called cost sharing.
True
False
6. Why are life expectancy rates calculated?
They calculate the average life expectancy of a country.
They are often used as a comparison measure of a country's health status.
They can be used to compare both male and female life expectancy rates.
All of these are correct.
7. Primary care is important to U.S. healthcare because:
It is the point of entry in the health care system where the patient makes contact with the system.
It focuses on short term interventions that may require a specialist’s intervention.
It is the most complex level of medical care needed to complicated health issues.
It is based on a referral from a primary care provider.
8. Another term for alternative health is called
Robotic surgery
Health informatics
Complementary and alternative medicine
Kidney dialysis
9. Local health departments are the governmental organization that provides the least direct services to the population
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False
10. The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (MRHP) was created as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 which allows some rural hospitals to be classified as critical access hospitals if they have no more than 25 acute care beds and provide emergency care.
True
False