Mod 10 and 11 Quiz

Question 1

Importance of Global Health

Answer 1

• Improvement in public health abroad protects America’s health as well as improve health of populations worldwide

Question 2

Global Burden of Disease Project

Answer 2

• Collaborative global effort with comparative data set on more than 350 disease and injuries in 204 countries

Question 3

Population growth and aging

Answer 3

• Greater life expectancy, more people dying from non-communicable diseases

Question 4

Epidemiological Transition

Answer 4

• shift from a time when majority of deaths worldwide were due to communicable diseases to a time when majority of deaths are due to noncommunicable diseases

Question 5

Disability Transition

Answer 5

• change in proportion of total DALYs, more disability from mental health and musculoskeletal disorders

Question 6

Double Burden of Disease

Answer 6

Must continue to control and prevent spread of infectious diseases while simultaneously addressing increase in chronic diseases

Question 7

Social Progress Index

Answer 7

Measures all the things the global goals are trying to achieve and sums up into single number to tract progress over time

Question 8

What 3 questions does social progress index ask?

Answer 8

• Does everyone have basic needs of survival (food, water)
• Does everyone have the building blocks of a better life (education)
• Does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives (freedom of choice)

Question 9

Inpatient facility

Answer 9

• Healthcare facility in the US where individual may remain for more than 24 hrs
• Hospitals, long-term care

Question 10

Outpatient Facility

Answer 10

• healthcare facility in the US in which patients can remain for fewer than 24 hours
• clinical facilities, emergency room, specialty clinics

Question 11

Structure

Answer 11

• Physical and organization infrastructure in which care is delivered to provide high-quality care
• ex. ratio of providers to patients

Question 12

Process

Answer 12

• procedures and formal processes that go into delivering care recommendations for clinical practice
• Ex. health care quality measures

Question 13

Outcome measures

Answer 13

• result of care
• Ex. surgical mortality rates

Question 14

Interoperability

Answer 14

• ability to share and use info. across institutions and across computer systems

Question 15

Medical Malpractice

Answer 15

State of civil law designed to hold practitioners accountable to pts for the quality of health care

Question 16

System Errors

Answer 16

problems resulting from deficiencies in the system for delivering healthcare or other services

Question 17

Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Answer 17

• digital versions of paper charts in clinician offices, clinics, hospitals
• From a single medical practice

Question 18

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Answer 18

• Comprehensive record used across health care
• all clinicians involved in pt care

Question 19

Health information exchange organizations (HIOS)

Answer 19

• Provide capability to electronically move clinical info. between different health care info. systems while maintaining meaning of info. being exchanged

Question 20

How is technology being used to improve quality of care?

Answer 20

• telemedicine, home testing, remote monitoring

Question 21

Public health relies on data reported by ____

Answer 21

health care partners

Question 22

Drivers of health of information systems

Answer 22

• Data analytics
• Collaborative care
• Cost control
• Population health management