Health Services
HSM410 Final Exam Study Guide
The final exam is valued at 250 points and made up of 10 multiple choice (6 points each), 4 short answer (15 points each), and 5 essay questions (25 points each). To earn full points, the short answer questions need to be answered in complete sentences; for the essay questions, you need to provide detailed responses that directly answer all parts of the question and provide supporting details and/or examples.
Key Terms / Concepts (Define) Health Policy –
Regressive Payments –
Proportional Payments –
Dispersed Model of Care –
Regionalized Model of Care –
Patient Cost Sharing –
Rationing –
Deductibles –
Co-insurance –
Topics / Areas To Review:
- The relationship of health outcomes & the uninsured
- What is the role of the “gatekeeper”
- Components of high quality care
- Identify the most common medical care structures of the twentieth century
- Current issues in medical ethics
- Examples of Painless Cost Control; Why are they painless?
- Cost Controlling Mechanisms
- Health Care services that fall under Long Term Care
- Issues that affect the quality of health care services
- Categories of national health insurance plans
- The primary features of national health insurance plans
- Non-financial barriers to accessing health services
- Identify the modes of paying for health care
- Strategies of Prevention
- Identify & Define the four principles of medical ethics
- Define the three models of organizing care (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
- How does malpractice affect the quality of health services
- The relationship between costs and health outcomes
- Why private health insurance has decreased over past decades
- Transferring financial risk
- Define price controls and provide examples
- Define global budgeting and provide examples
- Identify U.S. legislative efforts that support the concept of “medical care as a right of
The final exam is valued at 250 points and made up of 10 multiple choice (6 points each), 4 short answer (15 points each), and 5 essay questions (25 points each). To earn full points, the short answer questions need to be answered in complete sentences; for the essay questions, you need to provide detailed responses that directly answer all parts of the question and provide supporting details and/or examples.
Key Terms / Concepts (Define) Health Policy –
Regressive Payments –
Proportional Payments –
Dispersed Model of Care –
Regionalized Model of Care –
Patient Cost Sharing –
Rationing –
Deductibles –
Co-insurance –
Topics / Areas To Review:
- The relationship of health outcomes & the uninsured
- What is the role of the “gatekeeper”
- Components of high quality care
- Identify the most common medical care structures of the twentieth century
- Current issues in medical ethics
- Examples of Painless Cost Control; Why are they painless?
- Cost Controlling Mechanisms
- Health Care services that fall under Long Term Care
- Issues that affect the quality of health care services
- Categories of national health insurance plans
- The primary features of national health insurance plans
- Non-financial barriers to accessing health services
- Identify the modes of paying for health care
- Strategies of Prevention
- Identify & Define the four principles of medical ethics
- Define the three models of organizing care (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
- How does malpractice affect the quality of health services
- The relationship between costs and health outcomes
- Why private health insurance has decreased over past decades
- Transferring financial risk
- Define price controls and provide examples
- Define global budgeting and provide examples
- Identify U.S. legislative efforts that support the concept of “medical care as a right of