Exam 9: Disparities in Primary, Specialty, and Tertiary Health Care Markets

Most visits to physicians that year occurred in:

According to the text, the recent adjustments made in the clinical guidelines for the statistical measure of hypertension:

Both males and females in 2008, according to Gu et al., were more likely to be prescribed:

Schwingshakl et al. (2017) found that:

Patient Navigators may be needed to indirectly address the need for longer visits and more personal patient-centered interactions among:

Hayslett, et al. in a 2001 study found that angiotensin II receptor blockers created the greatest degree of hypertension control among American Indians from North and Souuth Dakota, Arizona, and Oklahoma,

Langellier et al. (2016) found that:

Which researchers listed below described the new clinical Guidelines for hypertension?

Gu et al. (2008) found that while differential healthcare for hypertension are in Clinical Guidelines regarding the treatment of patients by race/ethnicity, this was not true by sex.

In 2015, residents of the United States visited health care providers collectively approximately 990.8 million times.

Disparity apps currently exist but should be improved and adopted annually.

Noble (2015) found that poverty can create permanent brain damage in children in ways that may affect their future capability to negotiate their life outcomes.

RAAS are the initials for renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.

Which researcher recommended that health care professionals may need more training on health disparities?

The quizzes and examinations emphasize the name of researchers because:

Which recommendations below may lead to reductions in hypertension disparities across racial/ethnic subgroups.

According to the text, tertiary care is the most complex level of care that can be provided.

Ms. X, a Norwegian female age 55, Ms. Y, an African American female, age 55, living in England, and Ms. Z, a Scottish female, age 55 have vast differences between their systolic blood pressure rates by day and night. Based upon research by Ancheta (2014), these three individuals:

Which group of physicians below received the greatest numbers of these visits?

Dr. Phyllis Norwood is a pharmacist. She owns more than 38 pharmacies throughout the very diverse states of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Hawaii. Dr. Norwood has her Quality Control Specialist to review data on the type of medications prescribed by physicians for hypertension. She notices that hypertension medication prescriptions differ by racial/ethnic group. She correctly assumes that adverse healthcare disparities are occurring in the prescription of these hypertension medications.