Cost Must Be Considered in Planning and Evaluation

question 29

Multiple Choice

Cost must be considered in planning and evaluation. There are numerous types of cost studies applied to the health care industry. Cost accounting studies are performed to:

• A) Detect what percentages of clients recover
• B) Measure how long it takes for clients to see a caregiver
• C) Note how many cases are associated with other major risk factors
• D) Find the actual cost of a program

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Definitions:

Exosystems

A layer in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory referring to settings that indirectly influence an individual, such as parents' workplaces.

Macrosystems

The broadest context in ecological systems theory, encompassing societal norms, values, and laws that influence an individual's development.

Nuclear Families

Families consisting of parents (including single parents) and their children.

Extended Families

Families in which not only parents and their children but other kin—grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews, or more distant family relations—share a household.