There is an assumption that adequate health services are a ...

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There is an assumption that adequate health services are a necessary condition for population health. Which statement best represents population health?
 
  A) Health behaviors that are embedded in relationships that tie individuals to their family and friends, their neighborhoods, and their communities
  B) Planning for and implementing an equitable allocation or distribution of available health care resources
  C) Combination of vital and health statistical data from multiple sources, used to derive information about the health needs, health resources, use of health services, and outcomes by the people in a defined region
  D) Approach that focuses on interrelated conditions and factors that influence the health of populations over the life course, identifies systematic variations in their patterns of occurrence, and applies the resulting knowledge to policies and actions to improve the health and well-being of those populations

Question 2

There are several social and geographic factors that have an impact on the health status and health behavior of rural residents. Individuals who have made a study of rural health during the past 20 years are most often concerned with what care issue?
 
  A) Access
  B) Cost
  C) Quality
  D) Inferiority

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
Population health is an approach that focuses on interrelated conditions and factors that influence the health of populations over the life course, identifies systematic variations in their patterns of occurrence, and applies the resulting knowledge to develop and implement policies and actions to improve the health and well-being of those populations. A classic premise of community health is that the determinants of population health and particularly of health behaviors are embedded in relationships that tie individuals to their family and friends, their neighborhoods, and their communities. Health care rationing is planning for and implementing an equitable allocation or distribution of available health care resources. Health information system is a combination of vital and health statistical data from multiple sources, used to derive information about the health needs, health resources, and use of health services, and outcomes by the people in a defined region.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A
Those who have made a study of rural health during the past 20 years most often have been concerned with access to services. The traditional approach has been to gather data on services that can be easily quantified, such as the number of primary care physicians, the number of hospital beds, or the number of dentists. Ratios of services to population are then calculated, and the rural ratio is compared with the urban ratio.