The organizational structure of the United States health care delivery system can best be described by three subsystems:
1. Personal health system, popular health system, and scientific health system.
2. Popular health system, alternative health system, and scientific health system.
3. Scientific health system, complementary health system, and alternative health system.
4. Scientific health system, complementary health system, and popular health system.
Answer: 4
Explanation: 4. There are three health care subsystems that describe the organizational structure for the United States, which are the scientific, complementary/alternative, and popular. Complementary/alternative health system is a combined system, not divided into separate systems. Answers that have one without the other do not describe the full organizational structure of health subsystems in the United States
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