Deck 1: Consumer Health Issues

Question 1

Consumer health refers to the economic aspects of health over which individuals have direct control.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Health information found in the news media is frequently inaccurate and misleading.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Health hucksters often use scientific-sounding approaches to mislead consumers and to misrepresent products and services.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Quackery is definable as the promotion of a False or unproven method for profit.

Question 5

Advertisers often persuade people to purchase and use health products that have little or no value.

Question 6

Many Americans use "alternative"health methods.

Question 7

The intelligent health consumer is appropriately skeptical of advertising claims, statements by talk-show guests, and "breakthroughs"reported in the news media.

Question 8

Librarians at most libraries can obtain books and article reprints through the interlibrary loan process.

Question 9

The primary goal of the mass media is public education.

Question 10

Few well-educated individuals are victimized by quackery.

Question 11

Vitamin supplements make people more energetic.

Question 12

Almost all consumers are sufficiently informed to exercise freedom of choice in the purchase of health products and services.

Question 13

Most nursing homes in the United States offer high-quality care.

Question 14

People who have severe chronic illnesses are seldom susceptible to promises of cures by nonscientific health practitioners.

Question 15

Consumer protection in the health marketplace is very effective.

Question 16

Of the following, which is the major function of the mass media?

A) entertainment
B) uncovering health frauds
C) teaching people to be better consumers
D) promoting science

Question 17

All the following are buzzwords commonly used by promoters of quackery except

A) holistic.
B) alternative.
C) standard.
D) natural.
E) organically grown.

Question 18

Physicians have most often been criticized for

A) performing unnecessary surgery.
B) overemphasizing education about disease prevention.
C) using too few drugs.
D) using too few laboratory tests.

Question 19

Health costs constitute what percentage of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product?

A) about 6%
B) about 14%
C) about 18%
D) about 23%
E) about twice the rate of inflation

Question 20

In 2003, about how many Americans between ages 19 and 64 had no health insurance coverage?

A) 13 million
B) 45 million
C) 85 million
D) no data are available
E) none of these choices

Question 21

Which of the following has been a major problem in the health marketplace?

A) quality of our food supply
B) general quality of medical care
C) inadequate number of surgeons
D) overuse of generic drugs
E) misleading advertising

Question 22

Consumer health emphasizes

A) compliance with medical advice.
B) distrust of medical authorities.
C) avoiding unwise decisions when making health-related purchases.
D) passing a rigorous physical fitness test.

Question 23

Problems with access to health care include all of the following except

A) rising costs for services.
B) declining managed care.
C) declining insurance coverage
D) overuse of medical services.
E) rising administrative costs.

Question 24

All of the following are True about "defensive medicine"except

A) that it wastes billions of dollars.
B) unnecessary procedures and tests are conducted.
C) that it is intended to reduce the risks of malpractice suits.
D) that it protects consumers.
E) it requires extensive changes in America's legal system to correct.