Question

1. True or False: Efficiency is a value-laden concept

2. Health care:

a. Is the most important determinant of health in OECD countries

b. is the most expensive determinant of health in OECD countries

c. spending continues to grow rapidly in most OECD countries

d. sector is one of the largest sectors in most OECD countries?

3. Providing free prescription medications for all those who need them demonstrates:

a. horizontal equity

b. vertical equity

c. procedural equity

d. distributional efficiency

Answer 1

1) Efficiency is a value-laden concept

Solution: TRUE

Explanation: Efficiency is a value laden notion and it cannot be used as a means of making value judgements from purely factual premises

　

2) Solution: spending continues to grow rapidly in most OECD countries

Explanation: An important objective in all OECD is achieving the value for money in the health care sector. The spending on health care per capita has increases by over 70% in real terms since the early 1990s and continue to increase

　

　

3) Solution: vertical equity

Horizontal equity is providing equal treatment of those with equal requirements and vertical equity recognises that individuals with greater clinical requirements should have more intervention