Which of the following is a true statement regarding health care costs in the U.S.?
a. Only a small amount of health care dollars is spent on prevention
b. A primary contributor to the rapidly rising cost of health care is AIDS
c. The Medicare funding crisis is largely a result of the growing use of nursing homes for elderly people
d. The cost of prescription medicines contributes only a small amount to the total expenditures for health care
ANS: a
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Sue is a social worker whose client Mary, an 82-year-old woman, has been hospitalized following a fall at home. Mary has been living independently and wants to return home. Mary’s children are very concerned that it is no longer safe for Mary to continue to live independently in her own home. Sue shares some of the same concern as Mary’s family members, but Mary is alert and oriented and cognitively able to understand the risks of returning home. The family has requested a meeting without the patient present. Which of Beauchamp and Childress’s principles of bioethics would help guide Sue as she decides what to do?
a. Principle of autonomy b. Principle of beneficence c. Principle of nonmaleficience d. Principle of justice
When building a Community Development Corporation, which is true? a. It is enough for the social worker to identify with the community and itspeople
b. Community needs are commonly known; a formal assessment isunnecessary. c. As a social worker, it's your job to find financial capital for them. d. The CDC board has to develop relationships with government andcorporations.
Which of the following is NOT a limitation of secondary analysis?
a. Large chunks of data might be missing. b. There might be no variation in a variable that you want to analyze. c. Trends over time cannot be assessed. d. The variable might have been defined in a way that does not match your definition of that variable.
At what level of measurement is the variable number of future incidents of child neglect?
a. Nominal b. Ordinal c. Ratio d. Interval