Deck 14: International Healthcare

Question 1

All of the following are true about the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) except:

A) it was founded in 1900.
B) its purpose is to provide public health to all Mexican citizens.
C) it was founded in 1943.
D) it operates its own clinics and hospitals for insured workers.

Answer 1

it was founded in 1900.

Question 2

_____% of health care in Canada is funded publicly and delivered privately.

A) 25
B) 75
C) 50
D) 80

Answer 2

75

Question 3

Which of the following is covered by Canadian Medicare?

A) Dentistry
B) Hospitalization
C) Optometry
D) Cosmetic surgery

Answer 3

Hospitalization

Question 4

Which of the following does not describe how the market economy model works?

A) Health care is treated like a product.
B) Costs rise very rapidly.
C) There is great disparity in compensation between levels of providers.
D) Costs are usually contained.

Question 5

Which of the following countries does not have a single payer system?

A) India
B) New Zealand
C) Taiwan
D) Cuba

Question 6

Mexico spends about ______ per capita in health care expenditures.

A) $8000
B) $5000
C) $2000
D) $800

Question 7

The oldest national health care system is in:

A) the United States
B) Canada
C) Germany
D) the United Kingdom

Question 8

Which of the following is not considered a health indicator?

A) Life expectancy
B) Income
C) Spending on health care
D) Infant and maternal mortality

Question 9

The first hospital in Mexico was founded in ________.

A) 1610.
B) 1791.
C) 1854.
D) 1901.

Question 10

All of the following are positive advances that have occurred within the Mexican health care system except:

A) catastrophic health cost has been reduced by 9%.
B) life expectancy is now 80.
C) malaria cases have dropped 60%.
D) Mexican children now receive the same vaccinations as Canadian children.

Question 11

In Mexico, health care is delivered by all of the following except:

A) public institutions.
B) state and federal governments.
C) Ayurevedic practitioners.
D) private hospitals.

Question 12

Which of the following does not describe the Canadian health care delivery system?

A) It is described as a mixed system.
B) It is possible to have completely private health care.
C) The vast majority of care is provided through a single payer model.
D) It is described as a market economy model.

Question 13

All of the following describe the market economy model except:

A) the price and distribution of goods is determined by supply and demand.
B) all health care costs are billed to a single agency.
C) the price of care increases as demand increases.
D) services tend to be concentrated in areas of high population.

Question 14

Which of the following does not describe the Japanese health care system?

A) It is a mixed model.
B) There is mandatory insurance.
C) The delivery model is a private market model.
D) The system is the same as that in Scandinavia.

Question 15

A single payer system is described by all of the following except:

A) it is the financing of the costs of delivering universal care.
B) the entire population is covered.
C) a single insurance pool is used to pay costs.
D) this is the system in the U.S.

Question 16

The United States health care system is described as:

A) a single payer system.
B) a variation of the single payer system.
C) a market economy model.
D) a mixed model.

Question 17

The early French settlers founded Catholic hospitals in the:

A) 1600s.
B) 1700s.
C) 1800s.
D) 1900s.

Question 18

Which of the following countries does not have a variant of the single payer system?

A) Australia
B) France
C) Germany
D) Spain

Question 19

Mexico was in the world spotlight in 2009 because of:

A) the Avian flu.
B) the Olympics.
C) the pandemic H1N1 flu outbreak.
D) their exceptionally low infant mortality rate.

Question 20

Which of the following is not a role of the Canadian federal government?

A) Pay for dentistry
B) Provide funds to deliver services to the provinces
C) Deliver services to special groups such as veterans and First Nations and Inuit people
D) Provide public health, health promotion programs, and health care research

Question 21

List two countries having a single payer health care system.

Question 22

Vata and Pitta are humors in the Ayurevedic system.

Question 23

Which of the following is not true about the Ayurevedic system?

A) The diagnosis takes into consideration the person's physical and mental state plus their position in society.
B) It is built on the balance of three humors.
C) Health or illness depends on eating the proper amount of food in each food group.
D) Treatments include massage and spiritual guidance.

Question 24

India has ______ physicians per 10,000 people.

A) 7
B) 23
C) 58
D) 100

Question 25

India is becoming a major destination for medical tourism.

Question 26

List two forms of traditional medicine practices in India.

Question 27

Discuss the elements of the market economy model.

Question 28

Describe the health care system of Canada.

Question 29

About what percentage of Mexicans are uninsured?

Question 30

Canada spends about how much per capita on health care?

Question 31

100% of U.S. citizens have health care coverage.

Question 32

The Canadian system blends universal health coverage with private sector fee-for-service.

Question 33

The infant mortality rate in the United States is lower than that in Germany.

Question 34

_________________ has a population of one billion.