HCM 4560 Quiz review

Which is not one of the ways health systems researchers compare economic contexts across countries?

• GNI Per capita

• Socioeconomic status

• Purchasing Power Parity

• % GDP spent on health care

A political culture that is more individualistic would likely have resistance to which of the following?

• Everyone paying the same amount for health insurance

• Requiring health insurance companies to be non-profit

• Mandating everyone get health insurance

• Expanding preventive health

Cultural contexts are defined as

• ethnic and religious beliefs shared by groups of people

• the degree to which alternative medicine is recognized by health policy

• historic traditions from before the dominance of medicine as a profession

• a pattern of thoughts and behaviors shared by groups of people

A shift from mortality characterized by infectious disease to one characterized by chronic disease

• epidemiologic transition

• chronic disease burden

• pandemic

• shifting epidemic

courses of action proposed or taken by governments that deal with financing, provision or governance of health services

• Health policy

• Health care policy

• Health care politics

• Government context

A country's judicial system has no power to affect health or health care policy

• true

• false

The US cannot control how canada or mexico controls covid-19; this is an example of what challenge to global health?

• sovereignty

• sector

• accountability

• publicity

If Canada or Mexico enacts policies that encourage transmission of COVID, US would not be happy. What function of global governance would the US want to be more robust?

• Mobilization of global solidarity

• Stewardship

• Production of public goods

• Management of externalities across countries

How does the World bank classify countries' economic development

• Amount of funding received

• % GDP

• GNI per capita

• Purchasing power parity

Requiring industries to commit to reducing greenhouse gases addresses what health determinant

• genetics

• health behavior

• education

• physical environment