You Are Reviewing for Your Nursing School Entry Exam with Your

question 13

Multiple Choice

You are reviewing for your nursing school entry exam with your study group. Each person in the group agrees to cover one disease. You select toxoplasmosis for your presentation. Toxoplasmosis can be a serious problem for those who are immunosuppressed, as well as for fetuses. Even in healthy people, the immune system may not clear the organism, resulting in a latent infection that can reactivate when immunity declines.
-Why is toxoplasmosis is not treated in otherwise healthy people?

• A) Healthy people do not get toxoplasmosis.
• B) There are no medications available for treatment.
• C) T. gondii is extremely resistant to medications.
• D) The disease is brought under control by their immune system.
• E) The available medications are very toxic to most people.

Grasp the principles and implications of regulatory capture and its effects on industry.

Recognize the characteristics and provision criteria of public goods.

Identify and explain the free-rider problem and its impact on the provision of public goods.

Understand the concept and impacts of rent seeking, logrolling, and special-interest effects in government decision-making.

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Definitions:

Bad Debts Expense

The portion of receivables that a company does not expect to collect and writes off as a loss.

Gross Accounts Receivable

The total amount owed to a company by its customers for goods or services sold on credit before any deductions for returns or allowances.

Aging of Accounts Receivable

The process of categorizing accounts receivable according to the length of time an invoice has been outstanding.

Age Group

A classification of people based on their age, often used in demographics and marketing.