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Chapter 5 HCAD

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Population health considers influences on health that occur

In residential care facilities

Outside the health care system

In old age

Within the immunized population
Outside the health care system
What is the goal of the population health model?

To explain the causes of systemic health differences between different groups

To improve health care quality

To reduce health care costs

To help educate health care professionals
To explain the causes of systemic health differences between different groups.
Population health scientists consider income, education, employment, social support, and culture to be determinants of health in which of the following domains?

The physical environment

Genetics

Health-related behaviors

The social and economic environment
The social and economic environment
The possibility that being unhealthy can reduce or limit an individual's income is an example of which construct?

The medical model

The population health model

Reverse causality

Multiple determinants of health
Reverse causality
Unlike the population health model, the medical model does which of the following?

Seeks to explain the interaction between the social and economic environments

Focuses on how different biological systems within the individual interact

Promotes the use of health information technology (HIT)

Studies health differences between groups
Focuses on how different biological system within the individual interact
Population health scientists consider the physical environment to include which of the following? Select all that apply.

Urban design and housing

Availability of healthy foods

Access to primary care

Safe food and water
Urban design and housing, Availability of healthy foods, and Safe food and water
Two of the most predictive factors of life expectancy are income and which of the following?

Family history

Neighborhood effects

Level of education

Gender
Level of education
Interconnected social categorizations such as race, gender, and class result in overlapping systems of discrimination and disadvantage. This result is called

Reverse causality

The population model

The dose-response effect

Intersectionality
Intersectionality
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which of the following is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States?

Poor diet

Lack of physical exercise

Smoking

Cancer
Smoking
What portion of the funds the United States spends on health care each year is attributable to preventable diseases?

One-third

One-quarter

One-half

Two-thirds
Two-thirds
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