Sociology of Aging and Health Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationship between aging and health from a sociological perspective. Students will examine how social structures, cultural beliefs, economic factors, and public policies influence the experiences of aging individuals and their health outcomes. Topics include the social determinants of health in later life, ageism, the role of family and caregiving, disparities in health across different populations, and the impact of healthcare systems on older adults. Through critical analysis of contemporary research and case studies, the course highlights both the challenges and opportunities facing aging societies, fostering a deeper understanding of the intersection between aging, health, and society.
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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) In 1900, life expectancy for US whites was
A)almost 30 years.
B)almost 40 years.
C)almost 50 years.
D)almost 70 years.
E)over 80 years.
Answer: C
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) A man who works out daily at the gym and who regards his regular exercise as part of his identify can be said to have a A)psychosis.
B)life chance.
C)health project.
D)health fixation.
E)life choice.
Answer: C
Q2) In a "risk society," individuals often find it difficult to get acknowledgement that they suffer from an illness because
A)the doctors they have access to work for the corporations that in some way caused the illness.
B)they are labeled as lazy rather than ill.
C)they are considered responsible for the risks they took.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States
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Q1) Which of the following is true?
A)Current data suggests that Hispanic Americans die younger than do white non-Hispanics.
B)Hispanic Americans are less likely than white non-Hispanics to have health insurance.
C)On average, immigrants from Central America are in as good health as immigrants from Mexico.
D)Infant mortality is considerably higher among Hispanic Americans than among white non-Hispanics.
E)Hispanic Americans are paradoxically vulnerable to malaria. Answer: B
Q2) 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
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Chapter 4: Illness and Death in Less Developed Nations
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Q1) Developed nations have a vested interest in the health of less developed nations whenever which of the following can travel from less to more developed nations?
A)air pollution
B)diseases
C)workers
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q2) Chronic malnutrition can cause A)brain damage.
B)blindness.
C)mental retardation
D)infant mortality.
E)all of the above
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 5: The Social Meanings of Illness
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Q1) Medicalization refers to
A)the process of developing new drugs to treat a given illness.
B)treatment offered by medical doctors.
C)the process of defining a condition or behavior as an illness.
D)the growing number of doctors in the United States.
E)the idea that the body is more than a mere machine or factory.
Q2) 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
Q3) Treating behavior problems among children as an illness is an example of A)medicalization.
B)demedicalization.
C)depoliticization.
D)medical collaboration.
E)reductionistic treatment.
Q4) What contribution does Parsons' concept of a sick role make to our understanding of sickness in society? What are the weaknesses of that concept?
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Chapter 6: The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness
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Q1) Disability is more common among
A)lower income than upper income persons.
B)younger than older persons.
C)whites than African Americans.
D)men than women.
E)lesbians than heterosexual women.
Q2) About what percentage of Americans has a disability?
A)1 percent
B)12 percent
C)25 percent
D)40 percent
E)65 percent
Q3) Chronic pain is more common among which of the following?
A)men
B)women
C)middle-class persons
D)suburbanites
E)white Americans
Q4) How does the social construction of illness-both specific illnesses and illness in general-affect the lives of persons who have chronic illnesses?
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Chapter 7: The Sociology of Mental Illness
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Q1) 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
Q2) Research using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) suggests that
A)the DSM has a high degree of reliability.
B)clinicians are able to arrive at consistent diagnoses.
C)different clinicians may diagnose the same patient differently.
D)politics are not involved in the construction of diagnostic categories.
E)diagnostic categories are stable over time.
Q3) Which of the following are total institutions?
A)public elementary schools
B)police departments
C)prisons
D)colleges
E)churches
Q4) Critique the medical model of mental illness, using evidence from the textbook.
Q5) How are residential colleges similar to and different from total institutions?
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Chapter 8: Health Care in the United States
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Medicare pays the cost of all medical bills for eligible Americans.
B)Almost all Americans over age 65 are eligible for Medicare.
C)Medicare provides free health care for poor children.
D)All persons with incomes below the poverty line are eligible for Medicaid.
E)Medicaid is now run by Blue Cross.
Q2) Any system that controls costs through closely monitoring the decisions of health care providers is known as
A)institutional isomorphism.
B)a preferred provider organization.
C)a point of service system.
D)managed care.
E)accounting residuals.
Q3) If the United States adopted the Canadian health care system, it is likely that
A)the total cost of health care in the US would rise dramatically.
B)the percentage of uninsured Americans would not change significantly.
C)most US doctors would try to move to Europe.
D)drug prices would rise dramatically.
E)the total cost of health care in the US would fall dramatically.
Q4) Why have health care costs risen in the United States?
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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) Health care in Mexico is provided through
A)a three-tiered system.
B)National Health Insurance.
C)managed care organizations.
D)the Ministry of Defense.
E)political parties.
Q3) 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
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) By the late nineteenth century,
A)doctors began pushing for access to hospital facilities for medical technology and surgery.
B)voluntary hospitals increasingly emphasized their commitment to serving the poor.
C)demographic changes had reduced the need for hospitals.
D)hospitals had become chaotic and dirty places.
E)most hospitals were owned by only a handful of corporations.
Q2) 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.
Q3) What forces have led to the cooptation of hospices, and how does this cooptation affect users and potential users of hospices?
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Chapter 11: The Profession of Medicine
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Q1) RBRVS (resource-based relative value scale) was adopted to increase
A)the incomes of medical specialists.
B)the incomes of doctors in primary practice.
C)the cost of Medicaid and Medicare.
D)the cost of drugs.
E)hospital profits.
Q2) The system under which the government sets an average length of hospital stay and costs for in-patient treatment for each possible diagnosis is known as
A)retrospective payment.
B)deprofessionalization.
C)corporatization.
D)diagnostic-related groups.
E)Medicaid.
Q3) During most of the nineteenth century, allopathic doctors typically
A)were highly respected by the general public.
B)based their treatment on scientific data.
C)were far better trained than their competitors.
D)received their education in Europe.
E)received less than one year of training.
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Chapter 12: Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care
Providers
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Q1) Which of the following belong to an occupation that is both limited and marginal?
A)nurses
B)curanderos
C)pharmacists
D)chiropractors
E)direct-entry midwives
Q2) 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.)
Q3) Which of the following meets the sociological definition of a profession?
A)advanced practice nursing
B)chiropractic
C)midwifery
D)acupuncture
E)none of the above
Q4) What similarities and differences do you see between curanderos and acupuncturists in terms of who they serve, how they enter the field, and their current social and legal positions?
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Chapter 13: Issues in Bioethics
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)The AMA first adopted a code of ethics in 1970.
B)The public responded with horror to news of Dr. Sims' experiments on slave women.
C)The Nazi philosophy was grounded in part in eugenics.
D)The eugenics movement never gained a foothold in the United States.
E)From the start, most German doctors opposed the Nazis.
Q2) Research suggests that doctors can assert their decisions in clinical practice by
A)making decisions without asking the family first.
B)ignoring the family's stated wishes.
C)shaping the family's wishes through the information they provide.
D)all of the above
E)a and b only
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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