ATI RN
Health Care Delivery in the United States Questions
Question 1 of 5
Guidelines for effective patient education and counseling include all the following EXCEPT
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Effective patient education requires multiple strategies tailored to the patient, not a single strategy (D is the exception). All other options are standard components of effective counseling.
Question 2 of 5
Following a nuclear war, survivors would be threatened by both increased frequency and increased lethality of infectious diseases. Which of the following factors would increase the lethality of infections?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Radiation’s immunosuppressive effects would directly increase infection lethality by weakening immune responses, making (C) the most significant factor.
Question 3 of 5
Principal findings of the United States Preventive Services (USPS) Task Force include all the following EXCEPT
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The USPS Task Force recommends tailored screening based on risk, not uniform application (E is the exception). All other findings align with its reports.
Question 4 of 5
What percentage of total expenditures for health care in the U.S. is paid by private health insurance?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Historically, private health insurance covered about 32% of U.S. health expenditures in the late 1980s, aligning with data from that period.
Question 5 of 5
Payments for personal health expenditures can be grouped into two categories: (1) direct payments, made out-of-pocket by the individual; and (2) third-party payments, made by insurance companies, government-sponsored programs, or philanthropic agencies. True statements concerning sources of payment of personal health expenditures in the United States include which of the following?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Government payments have significantly increased since 1940 due to programs like Medicare and Medicaid (A is correct). Direct payments were less than 50% by the 1980s (B is incorrect), insurance payments grew (C is incorrect), and Blue Cross didn’t cover over half (D is incorrect).