Quiz 1

Question 1

What are the major issues we are currently facing in healthcare?

Answer 1

• payment/affordability
• accessibility
• HC provider shortages
• burnout
• miscommunication
• misinformation
• quality of HC

Question 2

What is population health?

Answer 2

Broad: why are some people healthy and others not?

Detailed: health outcomes of a GROUP of individuals, including the DISTRIBUTION of such outcomes within the group
- analyze patterns of determinants
- outcomes & quality
- form direct policy and research agendas

Question 3

Who has responsibility for health improvement?

Answer 3

no one in the public or private sector currently has responsibility for overall health improvement
- goals need to be set
- outcomes need to be measured
- quality needs to be assessed

Question 4

Overall health could be quite high if the majority of the population is relatively healthy – even though a minority of the population is much less healthy

Answer 4

Overall health could be quite high if the majority of the population is relatively healthy – even though a minority of the population is much less healthy

Question 5

Examples of Patients in a Population Health

Answer 5

urban vs rural
age
race
levels of health literacy
employees