Question 1

The Japanese national health insurance plan covers all Japanese citizens.

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The Japanese national health insurance plan covers most citizens, but not all. Some people, such as those with private insurance or certain government employees, may not be covered under the national plan.

Question 2

Canada has a single, national health care delivery system.

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Canada's health care system is a group of socialized health insurance plans that provide coverage to all Canadian citizens. It is publicly funded and administered on a provincial or territorial basis, within guidelines set by the federal government.

Question 3

What is a decentralized national health program? Use the case of Mexico to illustrate this type of healthcare system.

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Question 4

What is socialized medicine? Discuss the systems in three countries that have socialized medicine.

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Question 5

What are the four general trends appearing in developed societies, which are likely to have an effect on health care policy in the future? Discuss.

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Question 6

Canadians had a lower rate of infant mortality than Americans.

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According to data from the World Bank, in 2019 Canada had an infant mortality rate of 4.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, while the United States had a rate of 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births. Therefore, Canadians had a lower rate of infant mortality than Americans.

Question 7

There are three different forms of socialized medicine.

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Question 8

Canada was late in adopting its version of socialized medicine.

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Canada's National Health Insurance program, which provides universal access to medically necessary hospital and physician services, was not fully implemented until 1972, which was later compared to other countries that had adopted socialized medicine earlier.

Question 9

The Swedish National Health Service is financed through taxation.

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The Swedish National Health Service, known as "Folkhälsomyndigheten", is primarily funded through taxation along with some minor contributions from patient fees and pharmaceutical co-payments.

Question 10

The U.K. was the first country to enact national health insurance.

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Question 11

A major characteristic of the National Health Service in Sweden is that general hospitals are not owned by the government.

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General hospitals in Sweden are owned and operated by the regional health authorities, which are government-funded but separate from the national government.

Question 12

Discuss in detail the health care system in Germany.

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Question 13

Compare and contrast fee-for-service, socialized medicine, decentralized national health, and social medicine systems in terms of regulation, provider payments, facility ownership, public access, and private care.

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Question 14

Whereas higher SES groups in the U.S. have healthier lifestyles, the well-educated and higher-income in China tended to have worse health than the lower classes.

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In the U.S., higher SES groups tend to have healthier lifestyles, while in China, the well-educated and higher-income tend to have worse health than the lower classes.

Quiz 14: Global Health Care