Key Terms
Introduction to Soc of Medicine
Place & Health
Race & Health
Mixed Bag
100

The welfare program that has been federally funded for 50 years and has recently been under attack by the Trump administration is...

SNAP

100

The category of experience that is associated with a threat to future chronic physical and emotional health problems is...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

100

The formal process of designating neighborhoods for mortgage loans based on perceived risk is called..

Redlining

100

The predominantly Black city that has experienced a clean water crisis since 2016 is...

Flint Michigan
100

The sociological theory that would argue that health care systems [should] keep people healthy is called...

Functionalism

200

Social factors like education, work characteristics, and income are included in what key phrase?

Social determinants of health

200

The view that the social environment affects people's attitudes, behaviors, and life outcomes is called...

The Sociological Perspective

200

Residents of these areas have higher rates of chronic illness and often use hospitals as their only source of healthcare

Rural

200

Childbirth pain was considered exclusive to what group of people by white male physicians?

White women

200

The shortening of one's life induced by stress is called...

Biological Weathering

300

The prejudice or discrimination that's aimed at people with disabilities that often has a patronizing desire to cure their disability and make them feel "normal" is called...

Ableism

300

The group (not specific to race) that is more likely to have behavioral, mental, and physical health disparities like diabetes, suicidal ideation, and an increased risk of sexual violence victimization is...

Immigrants

300

The color that indicated a neighborhood was "definitely declining" in redlining maps is...

Yellow

300

The population density of enslaved people in 1860 has positive health effects for what racial group today?

White people

300

The medical field that has been considered a social determinant of death is...

OB/GYN

400

The belief or fear is rooted in white supremacy and includes the idea that fatness is "uncivilized" behavior

Fatphobia
400

The term that describes the shifting of nonmedical behaviors and experiences into medical problems that can be treated with medications is called...

Medicalization

400

The infrastructure that was used to destroy specific neighborhoods and displace communities of color is...

Highways

400

The unethical medical experiment that aimed to observe the untreated outcomes of a disease in Black men in 1932 in Alabama was called...

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Black[Negro] Male

400

The physical manifestation of environmental inequality that can result in water pollution and flooding is called...

Impervious surfaces

500

The inequality in access to resources, political power, education, health care, and culture is called...

Structural violence

500

The theory that argues that power, money, knowledge, prestige, and beneficial social connections are key in maintaining good health is...

Theory of Fundamental Causes

500

This agency was the main user of redlining maps for denying loans

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 

500

One of the "turning point" reproductive technologies that was key in American childbirth is...

Forceps or the cesarean/c-section

500

John Snow is credited with being the first scientist to trace an infectious disease to living conditions. His work is credited also with the beginning of what field?

Epidemiology

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