Health Care Systems 2021

Hospitals are classified as private, public, religious, or government depending on the sources of income received.

• True

• False

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is concerned with the causes, spread, and control of diseases.

• True

• False

Voluntary or nonprofit agencies are supported by donations, membership fees, and federal or state grants.

• True

• False

Medical centers at universities offer treatment and care for many health conditions and provide a learning experience for medical students.

• True

• False

A private hospital is a nonprofit hospital that relies on government funding.

• True

• False

Hospice agencies provide support to the family following a patient’s death.

• True

• False

Health department clinics offer services such as immunizations, pediatric care, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.

• True

• False

Which of the following types of care can be offered by a home health care agency?

• speech therapy

• house cleaning

• nursing care

• all of the above

The main type of care provided by hospice is ____ care.

• prophylactic care

• palliative care

• nursing care

• rehabilitative care

The agency sponsored by the United Nations that compiles statistics on disease and publishes health information is the ____.

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)