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IHS Exam 1 with correct answersThe 1940s signaled the end of the dominance of acute infectious disease and the rise of chronic
illnesses such as heart diseases, stroke, and cancer due to what discovery?
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Antibiotics
What will affect all health professionals in every career and will change the practice of medicine, as
we know it? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Population trends and healthcare reform
The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in which year? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 2010
The most common causes of death in 1900 were - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ acute communicable
diseases
The most common causes of death currently are - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ chronic non-
communicable diseases.
Hospitals employ approximately what percent of healthcare personnel?
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 40%
This type of hospital is operated for the financial benefit of the persons, partnerships, or corporations
that own them. - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Proprietary hospitals
Hospitals arose around the time of the civil war from - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ almshouses
institutions which cared for the poor, disabled, and chronically ill. - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
almshouses
Patients and their families who are involved in making healthcare decisions together with their
doctor and other healthcare professionals describes what kind of team?
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Patient centered medical team
, Up until the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the predominant method of reimbursement
for health care services has been - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ fee-for-service payment
Part-time and self-employed workers and those buying insurance from non-group plans were able to
purchase insurance through - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ a health exchange (established by
individual states or the federal government.)
Medicare Part A includes insurance for which medical services? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
Hospital
Medicare Part B includes insurance for which medical services? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
physician services/outpatient
Medicare Part C includes insurance for which medical services? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
benefits of medicare (medicare advantage plans like HMOs and PPOs)
Medicare Part D includes insurance for which medical services? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
prescription drugs benefits
The major drawback to an HMO is which of the following? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The
insurance will not cover out-of-network care (geography)
True or False, Shifts in the US population are expected to change with an increase in ethnic and
racial minorities and a decrease in Caucasians between 2012 and 2050 - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
True.
By 2030, the age group 65 years and older is anticipated to be twice as large as in 2010, and will
represent nearly ___ of the total US population - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 20%
__ ___ is operated on the principle that the dying have social needs and wants that hospital
personnel are too busy to handle. - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ hospice care
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