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Front 1

True or False? Medicare was borne out of the prevailing societal mood that it was an important role of government to expand legal rights for the poor and needy

Back 1

False

Front 2

True or False? Medicare was borne out of the prevailing societal mood that it was an important role of government to expand legal rights for the poor and needy

Back 2

True

Front 3

True or False? States must exercise their police powers in order to affect or engage in policymaking related to public health.

Back 3

True

Front 4

Which historical perspective became dominant in the 1990s and continues to be a forceful influence today?

Back 4

Free market perspective

Front 5

Which historical perspective sees physicians as just one of several stakeholders that lay claim to important rights and interests in the operation of the healthcare system?

Back 5

Social Contract Perspective

Front 6

In which of the following domains is the central focus on why and how the government regulates private individuals and corporations in the name of protecting the health, safety, and welfare of the general public?

Back 6

Public health policy and law

Front 7

Which of the following is the most dominant historical health perspective in terms of both length of time it held favored status and its effect in the actual shaping of health policy and law?

Back 7

Professional Autonomy Perspective

Front 8

True or False? Despite whether the policymaker is a public or private figure, the decision being made must be authoritative.

Back 8

True

Front 9

True or False? When a problem is identified as a public policy problem, the only means of solution involves a government intervention.

Back 9

False

Front 10

T/F Appropriations bills and reconciliation instructions must have the president’s signature on them in order for them to become laws.

Back 10

True

Front 11

If a woman meets all of the qualifications to be a state senator, for how many years must she be a U.S. citizen?

Back 11

9 years

Front 12

As a result of the focus on preventing terrorism, which agency includes an Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response?

Back 12

Department of Health and Human Services

Front 13

Which agency houses the Strategic National Stockpile of emergency pharmaceutical supplies?

Back 13

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Front 14

True or false? The most prominent person that we associate with the Executive Branch is the Speaker of the House.

Back 14

False

Front 15

True or False? Generally speaking, we are not privy to the lawmakers’ rationales for the laws they write and the judges’ reasoning for their legal opinions.

Back 15

False

Front 16

True or False? According to the U.S. Constitution, the federal government has limited powers, while the states retain most powers not expressly given to the federal government.

Back 16

True

Front 17

True or False? Although the federal and state court systems have critically distinctive authority, they are not very different structurally.

Back 17

True

Front 18

What type of law governs the relationship between individuals and their government?

Back 18

Constitutional Law

Front 19

In what year was the Constitution of the United States enacted?

Back 19

1789

Front 20

Which of the following, technically, is an umbrella term that refers to a small group of constitutional interpretation theories, all of which share a common belief that constitutional provisions have a fixed meaning.

Back 20

Federalism

Front 21

What type of law is central to legal systems in many countries, particularly those that were territories or colonies of England, which is how the United States came to rely on it as part of its legal system?

Back 21

Common Law

Front 22

True or false? In the Senate, bills are typically referred to the committee whose jurisdiction predominates.

Back 22

True

Front 23

True or false? The first action in consideration of a bill may be a hearing where the committee can hear from agenies, industries, citizens, colleagues, the public, the press.

Back 23

True

Front 24

True or false? When a committee markups a bill, they consider and vote on amendments to the bill and changes in the text.

Back 24

True

Front 25

Subcommittees can report legislation to the chamber.

Back 25

False

Front 26

True or false? Sometimes bills are not scheduled for consideration in the Senate because a Senator has notified the leadership that he or she will object to the bill.

Back 26

True

Front 27

True or false? In the House, the Rules Committee has more members that are also members of the minority party.

Back 27

False

Front 28

True or false? In the Senate, there is typically a requirement that amendments to bills be germane.

Back 28

False

Front 29

Which of the following would fall under the policy development function of public health?

Back 29

Health education campaigns

Front 30

Which of the following is a limitation of the World Health Organization?

Back 30

Limited ability to enforce global recommendations, limited funding and complex international administration

Front 31

Which of the following is the only comprehensive federal agency with responsibility for both health care and public health services?

Back 31

Indian Health Services

Front 32

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration works in collaboration with which other agency to ensure the safety of the U.S. and world supply of blood products?

Back 32

American Red Cross

Front 33

True or False? The local health department or the local government, has a great deal of autonomy in setting its own structure and function and often raising its own funding.

Back 33

True

Front 34

True or False? The state health department usually retains important roles even in those states where the local departments have home rule authority.

Back 34

True

Front 35

True or False? The three basic functions of public health, while useful in providing a delineation of responsibilities and an intellectual framework for the work of governmental public health, did not provide a clear understanding or definition of the work of public health agencies.

Back 35

True

Front 36

Which piece of legislation is often described as one of the foundations of health rights?

Back 36

Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor Act

Front 37

Which Title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is the key law used to combat race and ethnicity discrimination in health care?

Back 37

Title VI

Front 38

According to Professor John Kingdon, in what stream of policy analysis are solutions proposed?

Back 38

Policy Stream

Front 39

Which element of a policy analysis provides factual information needed to understand the problem?

Back 39

Background

Front 40

Which element of the policy analysis is simple to define but is often one of the most difficult part of the analysis to do well?

Back 40

Problem Statement

Front 41

Which section of the policy analysis provides the overall context for the analysis by identifying key stakeholders and the factors that must be considered when analyzing the problem.

Back 41

Landscape

Front 42

True or False? The background element is the key to the policy analysis because it frames the current problem.

Back 42

False

Front 43

True or False? 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.

Back 43

False

Front 44

True or False? A problem statement should define a specific problem and should indicate how that problem should be solved.

Back 44

False

Front 45

True or False? Even with the passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the United States will continue to provide healthcare services through a patchwork of public and private insurance plans.

Back 45

True

Front 46

True or False? Individuals without health insurance have to pay more for comparable services because they do not have the advantage of sharing costs as part of a pool of consumers.

Back 46

True

Front 47

True or False? The majority of physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants practice in primary care.

Back 47

False

Front 48

Which of the following refers to a percentage of service costs that patients pay when they receive services or drugs?

Back 48

co-insurance

Front 49

Prior to establishing the Medicare program in 1968, what country provided insurance in a manner that was similar to the United States?

Back 49

Canada

Front 50

The health system of which country is characterized as a national health system that is publically financed and where care is provided by government employees or contractors?

Back 50

Great Britain

Front 51

Residents of the southern and western U.S. are more likely to be uninsured than residents of the northern and midwestern U.S.

Back 51

True

Front 52

A deductible is an amount the insured person pays out-of-pocket before the insurance plan assists with the costs of healthcare services.

Back 52

True

Front 53

True or False? Nations that provide universal healthcare entitlements have incurred bankruptcy due to the increasing cost of healthcare.

Back 53

False

Front 54

True or False? The Nuremberg Code spells out principles of research ethics, including the need to secure in advance the voluntary consent of the research subject.

Back 54

True

Front 55

In 2003, the Institute of Medicine released a report that included overwhelming evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities and documented that these disparities could not be explained by the relative amount of health care needed by populations of color and non-minority populations alone.

Back 55

True

Front 56

The Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't include private hospitals and other private healthcare providers as “places of public accommodation.”

Back 56

False

Front 57

Which piece of legislation is often described as one of the foundations of health rights?

Back 57

Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor Act

Front 58

Which piece of legislation reformed the public health insurance market primarily through an expansion of Medicaid eligibility to cover all non-elderly, low-income persons who are legal residents or citizens?

Back 58

Examination and Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor Act

Front 59

Which state enacted a law, 20 years after Roe v. Wade, that imposed a series of requirements on women seeking abortion services and began another battle in the Supreme Court over abortion and the right to privacy?

Back 59

Pennsylvania

Front 60

True or False? One of the reasons for the underachievement of the US healthcare system is the large inequality in health spending.

Back 60

True

Front 61

Which of the following are factors that contribute to low life expectancy in the US?

Back 61

individual behaviors, environment, and social/demographic factors

Front 62

True or False? Only uninsured Americans experience poorer health than their European counterparts.

Back 62

False

Front 63

True or False? About 5 cents of every dollar in the US economy is spent on healthcare.

Back 63

False

Front 64

What are some of the challenges uninsured women face in accessing healthcare?

Back 64

All the above

Front 65

What intervention methods can help reduce racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare?

Back 65

All