Global Health and Society Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Global Health and Society explores the complex interconnections between health, culture, economics, politics, and the environment on a global scale. The course examines the social determinants of health, global disease burdens, and the impact of globalization on health outcomes and health systems. Students analyze case studies addressing topics such as epidemics, inequality, migration, global health governance, health policy, and international development. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the course emphasizes the ethical, cultural, and social challenges faced in promoting health equity and improving well-being across diverse communities worldwide.
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The Sociology of Health Illness and Health Care A Critical Approach 7th Edition by Rose Weitz
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Chapter 1: The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care
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Q1) Researchers increasingly use big data because it
A)reflects virtually the entire population.
B)less often was collected for a specific purpose that might have biased the results.
C)is increasingly accessible due to electronic record keeping.
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) The rate of tuberculosis increased dramatically during the 1980s. As a result, tuberculosis during those years should be referred to as
A)an endemic illness.
B)an epidemic.
C)an acute illness.
D)a pandemic.
E)a prevalent illness.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Social Sources of Modern Illness
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Q1) In general, rates better measure how common an illness is than do raw numbers because rates
A)allow us to reasonably compare populations of different sizes.
B)are more scientifically accurate.
C)are a more objective measure.
D)can be measured in a less biased fashion.
E)can be more accurately calculated.
Answer: A
Q2) The percentage of persons living in the United States who have epilepsy is best referred to as
A)the incidence of epilepsy.
B)the prevalence of epilepsy.
C)the rate of epilepsy.
D)the epidemiological transition.
E)the demographic transition.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States
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Q1) Women have lower rates of heart disease in part because their bodies produce more estrogen than do men's bodies. This is an example of
A)the feminization of aging.
B)the feminine mystique.
C)sex differences.
D)gender differences.
E)both sex and gender differences.
Answer: C
Q2) Compared to Anglo Americans, Native Americans are more likely to die from A)cancer.
B)heart disease.
C)alcohol-related causes.
D)AIDS.
E)strokes.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Illness and Death in Less Developed Nations
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Q1) Chronic malnutrition in the less developed nations can best be explained by A)overpopulation.
B)lack of natural resources.
C)population density.
D)the social distribution of food and other resources.
E)none of the above
Q2) The primary measure of a country's development level is its A)average education level.
B)moral code.
C)gross national income per capita.
D)military might.
E)number of factories.
Q3) Compared to boys in less developed nations, girls typically receive A)less health care.
B)less food.
C)more education.
D)a and b only
E)all of the above
Q4) Why has HIV/AIDS spread more rapidly in Africa than in the United States? Why has heterosexual transmission played a greater role in Africa?
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Chapter 5: The Social Meanings of Illness
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Q1) Talcott Parsons' term for how society views sick people and how sick people should behave is
A)functionalism.
B)deviant behavior.
C)dysfunctional behavior.
D)the sick role.
E)legitimate deviance.
Q2) Widespread genetic testing may lead to
A)better counseling for those with genetic defects.
B)increased economic protection for those who carry a genetic defect.
C)psychological damage among those who learn that they carry the gene for a devastating illness.
D)a greater understanding of why the severity of Down Syndrome varies so widely.
E)the demedicalization of fatness.
Q3) The concept of an epigenetic effect suggests that genes
A)outweigh the potential impact of socialization.
B)interact with the environment to cause or avoid causing an illness.
C)mutate at different rates in different populations.
D)Mutate in different ways in different populations.
E)Can be modified in laboratories to prevent disease.
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Chapter 6: The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness
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Q1) Health social movements may have a variety of goals, including
A)pressuring insurance companies to cover certain treatments.
B)bringing attention to the health needs of certain marginalized populations.
C)pressuring doctors to recognize contested illnesses.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q2) Someone who wins wheelchair marathons to prove he is no different from others despite his disability is A)passing.
B)engaging in deviance disavowal.
C)challenging stigma.
D)engaging in illness behavior.
E)engaging in sick role behavior.
Q3) Defining disability in terms of impairments
A)suggests that disability is inherent in the individual.
B)reflects a social model of disability.
C)highlights the role of social conditions in creating disability.
D)all of the above
E)a and b only
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Q4) Should people with disabilities be considered a minority group? Why or why not?
Chapter 7: The Sociology of Mental Illness
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Q1) By the end of the nineteenth century,
A)custodial care had largely replaced moral treatment.
B)psychoanalysis had largely replaced moral treatment.
C)moral treatment had become the dominant form of therapy in mental hospitals.
D)care of the mentally ill had shifted from large mental hospitals to small ones.
E)almshouses had become the most common sites for care of the mentally ill.
Q2) Approximately what percent of U.S. adults experience a diagnosable mental illness in a typical year?
A)5 percent
B)10 percent
C)30 percent
D)50 percent
E)70 percent
Q3) Which of the following played a main role in deinstitutionalization?
A)the development of new psychoactive drugs for treating mental illness
B)public horror at the maltreatment of mentally ill persons
C)financial changes in insurance and in federal funding
D)the overcrowding of state mental hospitals
E)the feminization of aging
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Chapter 8: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) What factors account for the rise of managed care? What are the potential pitfalls and benefits of managed care?
Q2) Under community rating,
A)individual premiums are based on estimates of that individual's chances of becoming ill.
B)individual premiums are based on the average risk level of the community as a whole.
C)doctors receive higher average incomes.
D)nurses receive higher average incomes.
E)Blue Shield is a better economic investment than Blue Cross.
Q3) Hawaii's experiences with health care reform suggest the advantages of
A)a single payer health care system.
B)a for-profit health care system.
C)a convergent hypothesis health care system.
D)having multiple payers in a health care system.
E)allowing hospitals to make their own decisions about what technologies to purchase.
Q4) Why have health care costs risen in the United States?
Q5) How has Canada's single payer system kept health care costs down more effectively than the US system?
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Chapter 9: Health Care Around the Globe
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Q1) Health outcomes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are
A)comparable with health outcomes in the Mexican health care system.
B)about average for a less developed nation.
C)among the worst in the world.
D)similar to health outcomes in the Chinese health care system.
E)none of the above
Q2) Which of the following can make it difficult to control a nation's health care costs?
A)uneducated consumers
B)an oversupply of nurses
C)an undersupply of doctors
D)centralized planning and budgeting
E)the presence of many different health insurance providers
Q3) The factor that has most helped Canada to restrain the costs of health care is the A)sharp separation between ambulatory care and hospital doctors.
B)use of utilization reviews.
C)switch to a single-payer system.
D)successful effort to restrain the number of doctors.
E)closing of unnecessary hospital beds.
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Chapter 10: Health Care Settings and Technologies
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Q1) Imagine that you are the primary caregiver for a family member with a chronic condition. What would your day look like? Your week or your month? What are the benefits of being able to care for someone at home? What hardships might you face, and how might you do so?
Q2) What forces have led to the cooptation of hospices, and how does this cooptation affect users and potential users of hospices?
Q3) Based on your textbook, compare the experiences of individuals seeking medical treatment in three different time periods. Where would someone seek treatment? How would health care providers interact with a patient? How would race and class affect patients' experiences?
Q4) Paid home health services are
A)most often used by poor persons.
B)generally provided by new doctors.
C)often provided by home health aides.
D)less common than in the past.
E)readily available at low cost.
Q5) Give an example of how medical technology shapes society, and of how society shapes medical technology.
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Chapter 11: The Profession of Medicine
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Q1) Graduating medical students
A)can expect a 40-hour work week as residents.
B)can expect an average debt greater than $150,000.
C)must take a course in cultural competency.
D)come primarily from the working class.
E)can expect an average debt of about $25,000.
Q2) Doctors' mechanistic model of the body may encourage them to
A)distrust natural bodily processes.
B)value "watching and waiting" rather than quickly intervening in Emergency Rooms.
C)rely on redactive treatment.
D)burn out after working in medicine for a few years.
E)listen carefully to their patients.
Q3) Another term for "regular doctors" is
A)allopaths.
B)homeopaths.
C)chiropractors.
D)botanic healers.
E)bonesetters.
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Chapter 12: Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care
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Q1) Men who enter nursing
A)typically are held back by discrimination.
B)cluster in less prestigious specialties.
C)are overrepresented in emergency room work and underrepresented in pediatrics.
D)tend to have had childhood problems with sexual identity.
E)tend to have problems working under women.
Q2) Compared to modern direct-entry midwives, physicians more often
A)use unnecessary and potentially dangerous drugs and surgeries
B)restrain from using drugs in the delivery process.
C)support the demedicalization of birth.
D)offer home birth services.
E)earn modest incomes.
Q3) How have attitudes toward women and femininity affected the social position of nursing as an occupation, historically and currently? How do those attitudes shape the experiences of male and female nurses today?
Q4) What factors make it easier for some mainstream health care occupations compared to others to approach or attain professional status? (Do not include alternative healers in your answer.)
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Chapter 13: Issues in Bioethics
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Q1) Hospital ethics committees
A)now exist at about 10 percent of US hospitals.
B)offered legal protection to doctors who performed abortions before it was legalized.
C)now focus primarily on the ethics of medical research.
D)have essentially replaced the use of individual ethics consultants.
E)now focus primarily on abortion decisions.
Q2) Which of the following statements about stem cell research is true?
A)Supporters argue that it will stem the rise in new cases of cancer.
B)It has increasingly shifted into universities and away from the for-profit sector.
C)Opponents equate harvesting stem cells to killing humans.
D)It has already produced effective treatments for several diseases.
E)none of the above
Q3) Is it ethical for the federal government to pay the costs of kidney dialysis for all patients, regardless of age or income, as it now does, but not to pay the costs of other illnesses? Which would be more reasonable and more feasible: extending benefits to those who have other illnesses or withdrawing them from those who need kidney dialysis?
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