Question

1. "Some hospitals in Northern California have attempted to out-compete neighboring hospitals by investing in state-of-the-art medical technology. This has, in turn, incentivized other hospitas in the region to invest more heavily in new medical technology in order to maintain their market share. The result is ever-increasing health care prices to consumers. Such a series of events can be described as what? "

   		Tragedy of the commons
   		Escalation
   		Success to the successful
   		Provider consolidation

2. "While overprescribing is one vector of the opioid epidemic, a National Academy of Science report aruged that the root causes of the epidemic include structural factors such as lack of econmic opportunity and eroded social capacity"

   True

   False

3. In a system, the individual parts that make up the system produce a different effect than the parts can or do produce individually."

   True

   False

4. "In a system, the parts do not affect each other."

   True

   False

5. "Edgar is 70 years old and is suffering from pancreatic cancer. It is unlikely he will survive more than three months. Up until this diagnosis, he has been relatively free of health complaints and has been able to do everything he would like in his life. Which dimension of life course theory would suppport the assertion that Edgar is healthy?"

   		Timescales
   		Trends
   		Health is a snapshot
   		Edgar has a diagnosible disease

Answer 1

1) such an issue can be described as provider consolidation .
2) True because . The epidemic to over prescribing opioids during 1990 was catalysed by pharmaceutical companies .
3) True the individual parts that make up a system produce different effect then the parts can do individually because the characteristics of a system is interaction , interdependence , integration and a central objective .
4) False in a system the parts do affect each other - because they depend on each other . A property of system called interdependence.