Women's Health Unit 1 Quiz
Which HHS agency conducts disease surveillance and prevention and keeps track of national health stats?
CDC
In a third-party healthcare system, the consumer...
Does not pay directly for healthcare.
What is the study of patterns of health and disease in populations?
Epidemiology.
From its beginning, the women's health movement embraced and advocated for women of all races and economic backgrounds.
False
From its beginnings, the American feminist movement has been inclusive with respect to race, class, and sexual identity.
False.
Which of the following are types of managed care plans?
HMO, PPO, POS
Which of the following participants shape the direction of healthcare in the U.S.?
Insurers, physicians, and patients.
Which of the following statements about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is true?
It increased access to health insurance for about 6 million women from 2010-2019.
How did the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act increase access to health insurance?
It lowered cost of insurance for individuals and businesses, it increased access of health insurance through Medicaid, it kept people with preexisting conditions from being excluded from purchasing insurance.
The State Children's Health Insurance Program provides health insurance coverage to...
Low-income children.
Which organization conducts most federally funded medical research?
National Institute's of Health.
Fall-related injuries are of special concern to elderly women suffering from...
Osteoporosis.
Which of the following actions is an example of primary prevention?
Quitting smoking to prevent lung disease.
During WWII, many women entered the U.S. workforce. What happened to most of these women at the end of the war, when men returned from the front?
They usually had to leave their jobs and return to the home as men returned to the workforce.
Revisions to the NIH policies in 1993 required drug studies to include women of childbearing age.
True
Health promotion is...
any planned education, political, social, or other campaign to help a person or population improve or maintain health.
In Canada, Western Europe, and the United Kingdom, the majority of people...
are automatically ensured through the government.
Managed care was introduced as a method to...
control healthcare costs.
Compared to women who do not care for a relative of friend, women caregivers are...
more likely to be sick themselves, more likely to have insomnia, more likely to be depressed.
Feminism is the idea that...
women should have the same rights, opportunities, and privileges as men.
