Health Economics First Exam

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    Important similarities between physicians and economists include:

    • Realistic approach to life's problems
    • Reliance on quantitative information
    • Both must take difficult choices
    • Both compare benefits and risks for good decision
    • All of the above
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  • 2. 

    "a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency,effectiveness,value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and health care" is the definition of:

    • Health care system

    • Health

    • Social Gradient

    • Health economics

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Health economics
  • 3. 

    "the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being" is the definition of:

    • Mortality

    • Disability

    • Quality of life

    • Health

    • Disease

    Correct Answer
    A. Health
  • 4. 

    "Universal coverage" means:

    • Access to health care when people need it

    • Ability to pay or equity in financing

    • Availability at affordable cost

    • Equity in access and equity in health

    • All of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. All of the above
  • 5. 

    Material conditions of life determine health by:

    • Influencing the quality of individual development

    • Influencing the quality of family life and interaction

    • Influencing the quality of community environments

    • All of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. All of the above
  • 6. 

    All of these are outcomes of low income people on health except:

    • Homicide

    • Die prematurely

    • Higher rates of use of preventive and curative health services

    • Low birth weight (

    • Shorter life expectancy

    Correct Answer
    A. Higher rates of use of preventive and curative health services
  • 7. 

    One of these is TRUE about physicians and economists:

    • Physicians are usually concerned with large aggregations

    • Economists are usually concerned about individual people

    • Both may face uncertainty

    • Both deal with patients

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Both may face uncertainty
  • 8. 

    All of these are Characteristics of healthy population except:

    • Lower mortality for cancer and chronic

    • Improving health outcome

    • Decreased life expectancy

    • Lower infant and maternal mortality

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Decreased life expectancy
  • 9. 

    The leading cause of death worldwide is:

    • Cancer

    • Diabetes

    • Cardiovascular

    • Pulmonary

    • Smoking

    Correct Answer
    A. Cardiovascular
  • 10. 

    One of this is NOT true about "Primary Health Care":

    • Universally accessible

    • Affordable cost

    • Includes acute care

    • Essential health care

    • Includes many maternal and child health care services

    Correct Answer
    A. Includes acute care
  • 11. 

    Factors that are taken into consideration when prioritization are:

    • Community concern

    • Extent of the problem

    • The ability to solve the problem

    • Two of the above

    • All of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. All of the above
  • 12. 

    ALMA ATA DECLARATION(1978) :

    • The first international declaration underlining the importance of primary health care

    • Considered Health a basic human right

    • Economics and social development is of basic importance to attain "health for all"

    • Two of the above

    • All of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. All of the above
  • 13. 

    Economics can contribute in health care services by all of these EXCEPT:

    • Quantifying over time the resources used

    • Assist the choice of future development

    • Determination of the consequences of particular choices

    • Asses efficiency

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. None of the above
  • 14. 

    The level of Health Care that involves care of patients with all manner of "Chronic Diseases" is:

    • Primary Health Care

    • Secondary Health Care

    • Tertiary Health Care

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Primary Health Care
  • 15. 

    One of these is NOT a reason of escalating(increasing) health care costs:

    • Population increase (particularly the elderly)

    • Lifestyle factors

    • Inequities in access to health care

    • Hospital care

    • Increasing role of governments and social insurance

    Correct Answer
    A. Inequities in access to health care
  • 16. 

    "the lower the socioeconomic position the more health is affected by the social determinants of health" is best describes:

    • GDP

    • Social gradient

    • Social Equity

    • Universal coverage

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Social gradient
  • 17. 

    Poverty can affect health by:

    • Income provides the basics for health

    • Low income limits peoples choices and acts against desirable changes in behaviour

    • Living in poverty can improve people's health

    • Two of the above

    • All of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Two of the above
  • 18. 

    Tertiary health care:

    • The first referral level

    • Provided by the district hospitals

    • Intermediate level of health care

    • Provide training programs

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Provide training programs
  • 19. 

    The causes of improving health status are all of these except:

    • The access to improved medical and health care

    • The introduction of vaccines and medical treatments

    • Improvements in behaviour

    • Improving material conditions

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. None of the above
  • 20. 

    All of these are characteristics of hospital-based,curative-oriented EXCEPT:

    • Sometimes it adds diseases to those admitted like nosocomial infection

    • It's limited to people complaining of advanced disease

    • Based on sophisticated technology

    • Involves a wide scope of health care

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Involves a wide scope of health care
  • 21. 

    All of these are factors affect the access to health care EXCEPT:

    • Physical environment factors

    • Social factors

    • Economic factors

    • Health policies

    Correct Answer
    A. Physical environment factors
  • 22. 

    Why Health Economics?

    • Similarities between physicians and economists

    • Advances in knowledge

    • Different countries across the world adopt the same health care systems

    • Two of the above

    • All of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Two of the above
  • 23. 

    The structural barriers to the access to health care all of these except:

    • Lack of insurance coverage

    • Poor transportation

    • Inability to schedule appointments quickly

    • Excessive time spent in waiting room

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Lack of insurance coverage
  • 24. 

    The WHO classified two broad areas of social determinants of health,one of these is correct about first area:

    • It's the distribution of power,money and resources

    • It's about daily living conditions

    • Includes gender equity

    • Includes access to health care

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Two of the above
  • 25. 

    All of these are attributes of optimal health EXCEPT:

    • The mental of psychological dimension of health

    • Freedom from disease

    • Ability to deal with stress

    • Anatomical integrity

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. None of the above
  • 26. 

    One of this is NOT true about "Economics":

    • It is the science of scarcity

    • It analyses how choices are structured and prioritized to minimize welfare

    • The science that deals with the consequences of resources scarcity

    • We need it because what we want is unlimited

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. It analyses how choices are structured and prioritized to minimize welfare
  • 27. 

    All of these are dimensions of health EXCEPT:

    • Emotional dimension

    • Social dimension

    • Environmental dimension

    • Economic dimension

    • Ethical dimension

    Correct Answer
    A. Economic dimension
  • 28. 

    All of these are true about "Priority" Except:

    • Ranking of problems,needs or soultions

    • Based on views derived from data and intelligent judgment

    • Followed when resources are adequate

    • Different across countries

    • None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Followed when resources are adequate
  • 29. 

    "Health for all":

    • Was adopted at the international conference on primary health care (PHC)

    • Achievement of a level of health that will enable every individual lead a socially and economically productive

    • Is the diagnosis,treatment,and prevention of disease and injury

    • Organized activities to achieve an optimal level of health for a defined population

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Achievement of a level of health that will enable every individual lead a socially and economically productive
  • 30. 

    One of these is correct:

    • Health inequities: a population where there is a significant disparity in the overall rate of disease incidence,morbidity,mortality in the population

    • Equity:the absence of systematic disparities in health between groups with different levels

    • Health inequities:systemic and avoidable disparities in health

    • Efficiency:minimizing the benefits from available resources

    • Two of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Health inequities:systemic and avoidable disparities in health

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