Health and Society Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Health and Society is an interdisciplinary course that examines the complex relationships between social factors and health outcomes. Students will explore how social determinants such as culture, socioeconomic status, race, gender, environment, and policy shape health behaviors and influence access to healthcare. The course discusses public health frameworks, health disparities, and the role of institutions and communities in promoting or impeding health. Through case studies and current events, students will analyze how societal structures and values impact health at both individual and population levels, preparing them to better understand and address contemporary health challenges.
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The Sociology of Health Healing and Illness 7th Edition by Gregory L. Weiss
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Chapter 1: The Sociology of Health,Illness, and Health Care
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Q1) Which of the following is true?
A) Qualitative data is particularly useful for helping us understand how people think about their lives.
B) Quantitative data is particularly useful for helping us understand how people think about their lives.
C) Quantitative data is especially useful when it provides in-depth analysis of small samples.
D) Quantitative research is most useful for studying tobacco use.
E) None of the above.
Answer: A
Q2) The sociological perspective emphasizes the role played by A) social security.
B) power.
C) genetics.
D) culture.
E) biological events.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Social Sources of Illness
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Q1) To increase sales of tobacco,tobacco producers have
A) emphasized that smoking can lead to weight loss.
B) sued the US Public Health Service.
C) refrained from advertising to children.
D) targeted men rather than women.
E) primarily targeted wealthy whites.
Answer: A
Q2) The term illness is used to refer to
A) the social experience of living with a disease.
B) the biological consequences of disease.
C) an objective measure of biological changes.
D) sociologists' ideas regarding epidemiology.
E) mental problems.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States
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Q1) Compared to earlier in this century,the American population now has a
A) higher percentage of elderly persons.
B) lower percentage of elderly persons.
C) higher rate of acute illnesses.
D) lower rate of prostate cancer.
E) higher rate of infant mortality.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is true?
A) The American population is steadily growing older.
B) In the future it should be easier to find young people who will care for the elderly.
C) Infant mortality is now as high as it was in 1930.
D) Postneonatal paralysis is a major problem for the elderly.
E) Elderly women experience disability less often than do elderly men.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Illness and Death in the Less Developed Nations
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Q1) The impact of HIV/AIDS is magnified by the fact that the disease typically
A) hits at midlife.
B) results in water pollution.
C) increases air pollution.
D) kills many street cleaners.
E) leads to overpopulation.
Q2) Imagine that WHO has asked you to consult on a public health program to address malnutrition globally.How can the concepts of global health and structural violence help you in developing your recommendations?
Q3) How is infant mortality linked to women's social status? How is maternal mortality linked to women's status?
Q4) The idea of global health
A) suggests that health and illness can cross borders.
B) suggests that both international corporations and migrant workers can affect health.
C) fits well with a critical sociological perspective.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q5) Why should war and disasters be considered public health issues?
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Chapter 5: The Social Meanings of Illness
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Q1) Which of the following can be important supporters of medicalization?
A) doctors
B) lay groups
C) pharmaceutical companies
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
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) Which of the following is a negative social sanction?
A) bribes
B) execution
C) illness
D) disease
E) socialization
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Chapter 6: The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness
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Q1) Which of the following illustrates blaming the victim?
A) assuming that social conditions create disabilities
B) assuming that women would not be battered if they did not anger their husbands
C) assuming that social change can end disabilities
D) assuming that disabled people are a minority group
E) assuming that disabled people are courageous
Q2) The most common underlying reason for disability among adults between the ages of 18 and 65 is
A) fibromyalgia.
B) contested illnesses.
C) chronic pain.
D) mental illness.
E) AIDS/HIV.
Q3) Your textbook argues that the Internet has had a large and recent impact on the way that people experience their health and the institution of healthcare.Discuss at least three ways in which the Internet is changing people's health experiences,either positively or negatively.
Q4) Should people with disabilities be considered a minority group? Why or why not?
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Chapter 7: The Sociology of Mental Illness
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Q1) The sociological model of mental illness assumes that
A) psychiatrists label any behavior that breaks social norms as mental illness.
B) anyone who breaks social norms is equally likely to be labeled mentally ill.
C) behavior becomes labeled as mental illness when powerful persons consider it both unacceptable and incomprehensible.
D) treatment for mental illness may not help, but it cannot hurt.
E) sociologists can treat mental illness better than psychologists can.
Q2) A person who drinks alcohol to blot out socially unacceptable feelings of anger is engaging in
A) snowballing.
B) symbolic interactionism.
C) feeling work.
D) labeling.
E) accommodation.
Q3) The "social drift" theory argues that
A) lower class life causes mental illness.
B) those who suffer from mental illness over time move downward in social class.
C) gender does not affect rates of mental illness.
D) social class does not affect rates of mental illness.
E) mentally ill persons often become more religious.
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Chapter 8: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) 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.
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) How has Canada's single payer system kept health care costs down more effectively than the US system?
Q4) Why have health care costs risen in the United States?
Q5) What factors account for the rise of managed care? What are the potential pitfalls and benefits of managed care?
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Chapter 9: Health Care Around the Globe
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Q1) Life expectancy in Mexico is
A) only slightly lower than in the United States.
B) slightly higher than the United States.
C) similar to average life expectancies in the less developed nations.
D) low to decreases in the health of the population.
E) declining due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Q2) The process through which health care systems in different nations become increasingly similar over time is referred to as
A) the convergence hypothesis.
B) medicalization.
C) demedicalization.
D) confluence.
E) the privatization theory.
Q3) Compared to US citizens,Canadians have
A) a lower average rate of doctor visits per year.
B) a higher rate of infant mortality.
C) higher out-of-pocket costs for health care.
D) longer waiting times in life-threatening emergencies.
E) none of the above
Q4) Which nation's health care system would you prefer? Why?
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Chapter 10: Health Care Settings and Technologies
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Q1) How does the profit motive affect the experiences of hospital patients and nursing home residents?
Q2) US citizens who need nursing home care
A) generally pay for it through Medicare.
B) are disproportionately African-American.
C) often become impoverished as a result.
D) cannot legally be moved to a lower-quality home if their funds run out.
E) are generally under age 65.
Q3) Hospitals were first developed to
A) provide care for the "deserving" poor.
B) protect wealthy people from seeing poor, sick, homeless people.
C) deal with epidemics.
D) provide care for those with chronic illnesses.
E) generate profits for investors.
Q4) In recent years,hospitals have
A) reduced the number of outpatient surgeries they perform.
B) shifted to treating an older and sicker mix of patients.
C) stopped serving as primary care providers for the poor.
D) abandoned the practice of patient dumping.
E) increasingly moved to nonprofit status.
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Chapter 11: The Profession of Medicine
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Q1) To become a profession,an occupation must
A) set its own education and licensing standards.
B) eliminate all competitors.
C) prove its scientific grounding.
D) have all members take courses in ethics.
E) earn over $60,000 per person.
Q2) Compared to conditions in 1900,by the late 1920s
A) considerably more medical schools existed.
B) women and blacks found it easier to obtain medical training.
C) immigrants and poor whites found it easier to obtain medical training.
D) the quality of medical training had improved considerably.
E) medical training had become less expensive.
Q3) Doctors' power over their patients increases when
A) patients are physically unable to communicate.
B) doctors work in solo practice.
C) doctors and patients share the same culture.
D) doctors and patients share the same language.
E) doctors belong to the AMA.
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Chapter 12: Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care
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Q1) 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.
Q2) When doctors first began medicalizing pregnancy,many women welcomed the change because it
A) offered guilt-free access to painkillers.
B) was less expensive than midwifery care.
C) was scientifically demonstrated to be safer than midwifery care.
D) was less expensive than osteopathic care.
E) allowed their husbands to participate in the process.
Q3) Curanderos
A) typically train through apprenticeships.
B) work primarily with young persons.
C) do not recognize any western categories of disease.
D) can legally bill insurance companies for their services.
E) are sued for malpractice more often than are doctors.
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Chapter 13: Issues in Bioethics
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Q1) Which of the following is intended to ensure that medical researchers behave ethically?
A) Institutional Review Boards
B) diagnosis-related groups
C) medical malpractice laws
D) medical mortality review boards
E) reproductive technologies
Q2) The Karen Quinlan case demonstrated the problems caused when doctors
A) extend life without regard to the quality of that life.
B) perform organ transplants.
C) perform kidney dialysis.
D) genetically alter fetuses.
E) transfer patients from hospitals to nursing homes.
Q3) "Cosmetic psychopharmacology" refers to
A) the use of drugs to give individuals advantages over others.
B) the continued use of drugs that have been proven ineffective.
C) the use of non-prescription drugs by patients.
D) the use of drugs by individuals disfigured by burns.
E) the use of drugs by the "genetic underclass."
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