Exam 8: Using Physicianpatient Partnerships to Reduce Health Care Disparities

Physician/patient partnerships are also needed across subgroups based on income. Review Table 8.2 and identify the correct statement or statements listed below:

Which other practices can be described as part of a physician/patient partnership via self-management:

The "case study" of the impact of physician/patient partnership leading to a reduction in disparities that was discussed in the text was influenza vaccinations. Based upon your own analysis, which factor of factors listed below would lead the authors to use this health measure as an example of physician/patient partnership".

One way in which a patient can partner with their physician is to respect their physician by always allowing the physician to offer preventive services.

Questions require review of Table 8.1 below. -In the year 2015, it appears that all racial/ethnic subgroups:

Table 8.3 reveals that:

Self-management refers to:

Lifestyle self-management is one form of self-management that can be used as part of the physician/patient partnership. Which item listed below is not included under lifestyle self-management?

The authors recommend the testing of a behavioral change contract which makes the costs and benefits of continuing behaviors harmful to health explicit and which physicians ask patients to sign. This suggests that patients' signatures would be needed in order to:

Self-management is a critical component of a physician/patient partnership.

Another original strategy proposed to support physician/patient partnerships is the use of:

Questions require review of Table 8.1 below. -In the year 2000, White Americans had a vaccination rate that was __% higher than Latinos:

Questions require review of Table 8.1 below. -Only Asian Americans had an influenza vaccine rate that exceeded that of Native Americans in 2000.

Questions require review of Table 8.1 below. -In the year 2000, based on your calculations using the data in Table 8.1., Asian Americans received influenza vaccines at a rate that was ___% as high as their Caucasian counterparts.

Self-management support is defined as only those activities selected by the physician to reinforce participation in the partnership by the patient.

The concept of physician/patient partnerships is a strategy for reducing health disparities implicitly acknowledges that: (Level3)

Questions require review of Table 8.1 below. -Based upon your review, study and analysis of Table 8.1, which statement or statements below are true:

According to the text, websites, smart phone apps and other online tools can support physician/patient partnerships that can reduce health disparities. However, key guidelines that should be followed include:

Strategies recommended in the chapter to increase physician/patient partnerships increasing use of influenza vaccines as a preventive healthcare service include:

A Reverse Disparity occurs when outcomes for subgroups with a positive disparity shift and become outcomes that reflect a negative disparity. The objective of health and health care disparity researchers and interventions is not that of creating reverse disparities. Rather, it is that of improving remediable outcomes for all groups. Which, if any, subgroups listed below experienced reverse disparities relative to the receipt of influenza vaccinations from 2000 to 2015: