Deck 16: International Health System Issues and Reforms

Question 1

Regardless of economic status, nearly every country is faced with growing problems with which medical conditions?

A) Obesity
B) Addiction
C) Chronic disease
D) Mental illness

Answer 1

A, C

Question 2

In developing countries, the lack of resources to fight ___________________ is due to the historical allocation of healthcare services to infectious disease.

Answer 2

noncommunicable disease

Question 3

Which of the following has become a pandemic across most countries?

A) Heart disease
B) Mental illness
C) Obesity
D) Addiction

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Those with chronic conditions often find that care is poorly coordinated regardless of the healthcare system. Which countries reported the greatest satisfaction with care coordination?

A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Switzerland
D) Germany

Question 5

With more complicated patient populations worldwide, there is a greater need for _______________ or central providers to coordinate care and provide interventions for complex populations.

Question 6

The most common connotation of scaling up of international health is the expansion of international health interventions but it can also imply the expansion of financial, human, and capital resources to increase healthcare coverage of the populations considered.

Question 7

Which of the following set the stage for considering financing issues for universal coverage in health systems worldwide?

A) Affordable Care Act
B) World Health Report 2010
C) Healthy People 2020
D) Social Security Act

Question 8

Which of the following are the core components of universal coverage included in the assessment performed by Chisholm and Evans?

A) Depth of coverage
B) Scope of coverage
C) Breadth of coverage
D) Height of coverage
E)Length of coverage

Question 9

In general, the highest performing low- to middle-income countries considered are those with the most established efforts at delivering universal coverage to their populations.

Question 10

Across the world, societies are grappling with similar health conditions such as the reduction of incidence and prevalence of infectious disease only to see a surge in the number of chronic conditions that are associated with an increasingly aged or overweight population.