Deck 24: Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services

Question 1

In public health ethics which of the following principles apply?

A) Beneficence
B) Justice
C) Compromise
D) a & b

Answer 1

a & b

Question 2

The goal of public health ethics is not to

A) Definitively resolve ethical issues
B) Provide clear policy
C) Enforce individual mandates
D) Enhance provider practice

Answer 2

Definitively resolve ethical issues

Question 3

Basic assumptions of public health principles do not include

A) Equity and nondiscrimination of distribution of resources
B) Allocation of resources based on self- interest of providers
C) Respect for human rights
D) Determination of need for health care services should be evidence based

Answer 3

Allocation of resources based on self- interest of providers

Question 4

Allocation of resources includes

A) Personnel
B) Facilities
C) Equipment
D) All of the above

Question 5

Which major crisis is being faced by public hospitals nationwide?

A) Plant
B) Guest Services
C) Financial
D) Medications

Question 6

Specialty physician compensation in the U.S. is influenced by

A) AHRQ
B) AMA Specialty Society RVS Update Committee
C) Patient demand
D) NCQA

Question 7

The rule of rescue refers to

A) A few lives are saved at great cost and results in the invisible loss of many more lives
B) Rescue a few is a large mandate of public health services
C) Is an individual providers choice
D) None of the above

Question 8

The National Health Service Corps provides

A) Managed care to rural areas
B) Managed care to low income areas
C) Loan forgiveness and rural preceptorships
D) Crisis clinics

Question 9

Research in public health must have

A) IRB approval
B) Grant funding from private foundations
C) Congressional approval
D) All of the above

Question 10

Ethical issues in the future in public health are

A) Likely to remain the same as they are now
B) Likely to become less complex
C) Likely to become more complex
D) Likely to be less of a public concern

Question 11

Ethics committees in hospitals and managed care organizations operate to resolve public health ethical issues.

Question 12

Malpractice suits constitute one method of regulating quality of care.

Question 13

ACA stipulates the use of mandatory privately purchased health insurance.

Question 14

The numbers and kinds of personnel required and their distribution are critical to public health.

Question 15

In public health the concern is for individual liberty.

Question 16

The distribution of resources to different types of people who use health care is an ethical issue.

Question 17

Overall, studies since 1980 suggest that there is no difference in performance between not for profit and for profit providers on access, cost , quality and charity care.

Question 18

One solution to rationing organ transplants would be to require mandatory donation from fatal automobile accidents.

Question 19

Racial and ethnic diversity in both the training and practice of health professionals is not viewed as important.

Question 20

From a public health perspective, financial barriers to essential health care are inappropriate.