Exam 15: Health Problems and Medical Social Services

Medical conditions of older adults are often misdiagnosed because doctors lack the specialized training to recognize the unique medical conditions of old people.

​Reasons for the rapid increases in health-care costs include all of the following except:

​A two-tier system of health care is emerging in the United States, with the wealthy receiving higher quality health services than the poor.

​It is required that hospitals have a social services department in order to be accredited by the American Hospital Association.

​List the services provided through the local health departments of public health services.

​Discuss service orientation versus profit orientation in the context of the American health-care system.

Briefly describe the drugs prescribed to people infected with HIV.

In which of the following settings of medical services in the United States does a medical practitioner work in relative isolation from colleagues?

The drug azidothymidine has been found to cure acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

​All of the federal government health-care bill is paid through Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.

Insurance companies can deny coverage to adults and children with preexisting conditions.

​Even when outside of blood and other bodily fluids, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) apparently can survive for long periods of time, up to several years.

The _____ is a federal government program in the U.S. that is designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest, but too high to qualify for Medicaid.

​Which of the following is true of the findings regarding physical health in the United States?

​Briefly describe the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

In which of the following stages of dying in the terminally ill, as identified by Dr. Kübler Ross, does a patient enter a state of "preparatory grief"?

According to holistic medicine, thinking processes have no consequences on physical and psychological functions.

One of the services provided by the public health service is the maintenance of an index of all area births, deaths, marriages, and current communicable diseases.

​All of the following are examples of services generally provided by public health departments except:

HIV infection is diagnosed as AIDS only when the immune system becomes seriously impaired and leads to severe, debilitating diseases, such as Kaposi's sarcoma.