How much do you know about health economics? A proper healthcare system ensures that the scarce resources in the system are efficiently used. A proper understanding of health economics can be helpful in many ways as one is able to know which needs to take care of first and how to compare costs and consequences of specific options. Do take See morethe quiz and get to test yourself. All the best!
Marginal cost:Value of production lost due to time needed to find a replacement worker
Opportunity cost: Cost of not doing something
Quality assessment: The measurement of the actual quality of health care rendered
Microeconomics: The entire country's health care system including the way that it performs
Two of the above
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Professionals receive a fee for each service they provide
The service for which payment is made can be separated services
Based on charges that are set either by professionals or the patient
It's similar to "Charge-based payments method for paying hospitals"
Non of the above
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Amount established to cover the cost of heath care services delivered to a person for a specific time
A fixed payment (usually monthly or yearly)
A prospective cost reimbursement classification system for in-patient services based on diagnosis
The amount of money that flows from payers to an insurance plan
How individuals choose , minimize costs or maximize profits or wealth or utilities
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Does not vary with number of people or number of patients treated
Does not vary with number of services provided
Usually used for physicians working in government agencies
Usually paid monthly or yearly
All of the above
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Charge-based payments
Per-diem payments
Per-case payments
Budget payments
Managed Care
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Salary
Per-diem
Per-case
Capitation
Charge-based
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Want is often thought of as a physiological or biological requirement for maintaining life such as need of air
Demand is the ability and desire to pay for goods and services
Need can be defined as the gap between optimal health and ill health or equivalently
Consumer is a person who uses a service
Cost containment means to keep costs within acceptable limits
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Esteem
Morality
Physiological
A+C
All of the above
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Barriers to entry
Externalities
Asymmetric information
Uncertainty
None of the above
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Asymmetric information
Utilization
Uncertainty
Financial security
Personal security
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Extent of illness
Awareness
Distance
Organizational factors
All of the above
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Low level of morbidity
High standard of population health
Low level of service supply
High level of morbidity
Inaccessible health care services
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Measuring value of alternative course of action
Choosing the cheapest
Same as Opportunity cost
Comparative analysis of alternative courses of action in terms of both their costs and consequences
Applied to compare the cost and consequences of two or more alternative programs
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Adequacy
Efficiency
Effectiveness
Scientific -technical quality
Equity
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CDA
CMA
CEA
CBA
CUA
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10
15
20
1/10
None of the above
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Cost minimization is a tool used in pharmacoeconomics
One of CBA purposes is to provide a basis for comparing actions
CUA measures outcomes in QALYs and DALYs
CBA needs more time than CUA and CEA
CMA is used to compare costs of alternative therapies that have identical clinical effectiveness
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Deciding whether to implement a specific program
Choosing among competing options
Choosing and setting priorities from a group of portential programs
Knowing the costs and benefits
All of the above
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Health inequalities
Distribution of money,power ,resources
Leading causes of death
Non of the above
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Health inequaties
Health disparities
Health equity
Health determinants
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Even in the poorest countries there are disparities between poort and rich in health
Always there is no disparities in the context of the health care system
Access to health care is essential for equitable health
There is substantial variation in the health care system and coverage from country to country
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Availability of resources to access the facilities of life
Working conditions
Tobacco and alcohol use
Quality of available food and house among others
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Elderly people with Co-morbidity this will cause a financial burden on their income
Elderly people may have the opportunity to access information about their health and how to protect it
They face other barriers such as impaired mobility
Non of the above
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Homicide
Unemployment
A lot of reaction
High crime rates
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Health equity
Legal barriers
Social gradiant
Social justice
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Easier to understand
More readily suited to decision making
Less time and resource intensive
All of the above
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Trained personnel
Facilities
Supplies,equipments
All of the above
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Mechanization of health care services
Expansion in medical knowledge
Increasing the role of private sector and social insurance
A+B
All of the above
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Equity
Priority
Social justice
Efficiency
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Good decision requires comparing between benefits and risks
Both face Uncertanity
Often must take difficult decisions
Both are concerned with large aggregations
Reliance on quantitative information
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Reduce the proportion of uneducated people
Improve the quality of the life
Determination of the consequences of a particular choice
All of the above
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Advances in knowledge
Prevalence of the problem
Availability of effective measures to solve the problem
Seriousness of the problem
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Cost
Choice
Efficiency
Optimal Health
All of the above
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The science of scarcity
Analysis how choices are structured
The level of functional or metabolic efficiency of living being
Deals with the consequences of resources scarcity
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Mental dimension
Social dimension
Emotional dimension
Philosophical dimension
All of the above
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The first international declaration underlining the importance of Primary Health Care
It consider health a human right
Economics and social development are important to reduce the gap between developing and developed countries
It was accepted by the member countries as the key to achieve the goal of " Health for All"
Non of the above
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Direct benefit: reduction in Asthma for children
Direct benefit: reduction in heart diseases
Indescribable benefit: reduction in heart diseases
Indirect benefit: reduction in Asthma for children
Two of the above
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Health problems can be satisfactory managed
Countrinity is the key characteristic of it
Provided by special physicians
Common chronic diseases are usually treated within it
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Combines life years saved with the quality of life during those years
Measures outcomes in QALYs and DALYs
Cost is measured in monetary units
Non of the above
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