Self Assessment Quiz 3

1.	The total level of health expenditures for health and medical care services in the United States for 1998 is closest to which of these figures?
		500 million dollars
		50 billion dollars
		1 trillion dollars
		100 trillion dollars

2.	Early detection of disease and interventions to reverse, halt, or at least slow the progression of a condition, often performed when disease is not yet symptomatic, is a description of:
		Primary prevention
		Secondary prevention
		Tertiary prevention
		None of the above

3.	The approximate percentage of all health and medical care expenditures in the United States spent on clinical preventive and public health services is:
		25-30 percent
		15-20 percent
		5-10 percent
		0-4 percent

4.	The health care component identified as the largest user of the health care dollar in the United States is:
		Physicians
		Hospitals
		Research
		Pharmaceuticals

5.	The largest payer of medical care expenses is:
		Private health insurance plans
		Individuals
		Employers
		Government

6.	All of the following have significantly influenced the American health care system EXCEPT:
		The demographic composition of the U.S. population
		The nature of disease
		Availability of providers
		Improved technology

7.	Factors shaping health policy in the United States include all of the following concepts EXCEPT:
		Federalism
		Pluralism
		Socialism
		Incrementalism

8.	State and local public health agencies account for what percentage of all US national health expenditures?
		2 percent
		5 percent
		10 percent
		20 percent

9.	Medical services (including clinical preventive services such as immunizations and screening tests) account for what share of the 30-year increased life expectancy achieved for Americans between 1900 and 2000?
		1 year
		5 years
		10 years
		20 years

10.	Which of the following was not one of the three over-arching goals of Healthy People 2000?
		Increase access to preventive services
		Reduce health disparities
		Increase immunization rates for all age groups
		Increase the span of healthy life