Social Determinants of Health Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the social determinants of health the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age and examines how these factors influence health outcomes and health equity. Students will analyze the impact of socioeconomic status, education, neighborhood environments, employment, social support networks, and access to healthcare on individual and population health. Through case studies and evidence-based research, the course emphasizes strategies for addressing health disparities and encourages critical thinking about policy interventions and programs that can improve health and well-being within communities.
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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) In Germany,infectious and parasitic diseases are relatively rare,chronic and degenerative diseases are relatively common,and life expectancy is high.From these facts,we can conclude that Germany has experienced the A) epidemiological transition.
B) sociological transition.
C) expectational profile.
D) demographic shift.
E) developed nation syndrome.
Answer: A
Q2) Those who frame their research questions in terms of public issues,rather than personal troubles,can be said to use
A) the sociological perspective.
B) functionalist theory.
C) psychoanalysis.
D) a public health perspective.
E) radical theory.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Social Sources of Illness
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Q1) If heroin users could obtain both the drug and needles legally,they would be less likely to
A) contract HIV.
B) overdose.
C) contract other illnesses carried by dirty needles.
D) commit crimes.
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Q2) 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
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Chapter 3: The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States
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Q1) The relationship between social class and health in part can be explained by A) the kinds of work available to poor persons.
B) the greater environmental hazards in poor neighborhoods.
C) the housing available to poor persons.
D) all of the above
E) a and b only
Answer: D
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) HIV/AIDS is especially common in Africa in part because of high rates of A) infertility.
B) concurrent sexual partners.
C) serial sexual partners.
D) high cereal diets.
E) gluten free diets.
Q2) 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
Q3) The primary cause of low life expectancy in the less developed nations is A) dictatorship.
B) poverty.
C) religious warfare.
D) genetic defects.
E) air pollution.
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) Early nineteenth century doctors argued that cholera typically attacked only individuals who
A) had come in contact with dangerous miasma.
B) had weakened their bodies through improper living.
C) had been weakened by living in poverty.
D) were malnourished.
E) had bad genes.
Q2) The history of ADHD as a "disease" shows that A) drug companies can play an important role in medicalization. B) the FDA has helped reduce the price of rare drugs.
C) doctors play a much larger role than any other group in promoting medicalization. D) prescription drugs can only be sold to treat illnesses for which the drugs have been scientifically tested.
E) feminists have played a major role in medicalization.
Q3) Most individuals assume that illness is an objective,biological category.Your textbook,on the other hand,argues that illness is a moral category and a social construction.Argue for or against this position.Be sure to address the issues likely to be raised by those holding the opposite view.
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Chapter 6: The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness
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Q1) The health belief model
A) recognizes that sometimes patients can't follow medical advice because they lack transportation to clinics or face other practical barriers.
B) assumes that patients can make reasonable judgments about whether they should follow medical advice.
C) recognizes that medical advice can sometimes be harmful.
D) recognizes that sometimes patients can't afford to buy prescribed medications.
E) assumes noncompliance with medical occurs solely because of patients' attitudes and beliefs.
Q2) The Americans with Disabilities Act
A) applies only to civil service employment.
B) required cities to establish special schools for handicapped children.
C) uses a very broad definition of who has a disability.
D) outlaws discrimination in employment, public services, and public accommodations. E) has made it easy for individuals who believe they have experienced discrimination to win law suits.
Q3) 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) Critique the medical model of mental illness,using evidence from the textbook.
Q2) Typically,persons who exhibit behavior that suggests mental illness
A) are quickly labeled as mentally ill by their families.
B) seek treatment within one year.
C) become homeless within one year.
D) are only reluctantly labeled mentally ill by their families.
E) should be classified as schizophrenic.
Q3) Moral treatment referred to
A) giving moral instruction to mentally ill persons.
B) teaching the Bible to mentally ill persons.
C) the treatment of mentally ill persons by ministers.
D) treating mentally ill persons through kindness and through giving them opportunities for both work and play.
E) the treatment of mentally ill persons by moralists and philosophers.
Q4) Social stress is most likely to lead to mental illness if the stress
A) is chronic.
B) is an acute trauma.
C) is linked to a life event, rather than an ongoing situation.
D) is treated with antidepressants.
E) is treated with antipsychotics.
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Chapter 8: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) Compared to persons who have health insurance,uninsured persons
A) are more likely to die in any given year.
B) are more likely to postpone needed health care.
C) are more likely to rely on medical experiments as a means of obtaining treatment.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q2) Individuals who have fee-for-service insurance
A) must first pay their medical bills and then request reimbursement from their insurance company.
B) pay a flat fee per year to cover all their medical expenses.
C) pay lower premiums than those who have actuarial insurance.
D) always pay premiums based on community risk ratings.
E) must receive care from doctors affiliated with their insurance company.
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) The health care system in Great Britain is best described as
A) an entrepreneurial system.
B) a National Health Service.
C) National Health Insurance.
D) social insurance.
E) capitalistic.
Q2) Which of the following is true?
A) Health care is rationed in Great Britain but not in the United States.
B) Health care is rationed in the United States but not in Great Britain.
C) Health care is rationed in both the United States and Great Britain.
D) Health care is rationed in neither the United States nor Great Britain.
Q3) 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.
Q4) How is health care rationed in Canada and Great Britain? Are these systems of rationing better,worse,or no different from how we ration care in the United States?
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Chapter 10: Health Care Settings and Technologies
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Q1) Give an example of how medical technology shapes society,and of how society shapes medical technology.
Q2) In the Netherlands,doctors
A) can legally end a patient's life in certain circumstances.
B) who commit euthanasia may receive the death penalty.
C) can legally instruct a patient how to commit suicide painlessly, but cannot end the patient's life themselves.
D) who commit euthanasia can be tried for manslaughter but not for murder.
E) can legally end a patient's life only if they are psychiatrists.
Q3) Which of the following is true?
A) Few 90-year-old American men have prostate cancer.
B) Prostate cancer kills most who develop it.
C) Treatment for prostate cancer causes few significant side-effects.
D) A nationwide prostate cancer detection and treatment program would reduce the national costs for the disease.
E) A nationwide detection and treatment program would increase the national costs of dealing with prostate cancer.
Q4) How does the profit motive affect the experiences of hospital patients and nursing home residents?
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Chapter 11: The Profession of Medicine
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Q1) Since the 1960s,
A) the percentage of health care institutions owned by investor-owned corporations has increased.
B) corporations increasingly have purchased only one kind of health care institution (such as only nursing homes or only hospitals).
C) the ratio of doctors per capita has decreased.
D) the proportion of doctors in private practice has grown.
E) doctors' ability to fight government regulation has grown.
Q2) Nineteenth century allopathic medical schools
A) had stringent admissions standards.
B) trained students primarily through laboratory work.
C) trained students primarily through lectures.
D) played a critical role in teaching scientific principles to new doctors.
E) emphasized scientific research.
Q3) What is cultural health capital? Which populations are least likely to have cultural health capital? How does low cultural health capital affect doctor-patient relationships?
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Chapter 12: Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care
Providers
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Q1) Optometrists have obtained considerable social status by limiting their treatments to only one part of the body.This suggests that optometry is a A) semi-profession.
B) limited but not marginal occupation.
C) parallel profession.
D) marginal but not limited occupation.
E) marginal profession.
Q2) The history of osteopathy suggests how difficult it is to
A) move from being a marginal occupation to being a limited occupation.
B) maintain an independent and unique identity while becoming a parallel profession.
C) improve the educational standards of a field.
D) gain legal recognition when a field has many female practitioners.
E) gain legal recognition when a field lacks a scientific basis.
Q3) Compare and contrast the fields of dentistry and osteopathy.What factors have allowed medicine to dominate osteopathy but not dentistry?
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) The "Baby Fae" case shows that
A) the establishment of research ethics boards by itself cannot prevent unethical research practices.
B) animal-to-human organ transplants are feasible.
C) parents may not have their babies' best interests in mind when they make medical decisions.
D) doctors discriminate against disabled infants.
E) euthanasia of seriously disabled infants should be considered seriously.
Q2) The purpose of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was to investigate A) which treatments worked best for syphilis.
B) which men were most likely to become infected with syphilis.
C) whether blacks were more likely than whites to become infected with syphilis.
D) whether some treatments for syphilis worked better with whites than with blacks.
E) the long-term effects of untreated syphilis in African-American men.
Q3) Why should sociologists concern themselves with bioethical issues? Why should bioethicists study sociology?
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