Healthcare
Disease/Disability
Health Inequalities
Social Determinants of Health
Misc.
100
What is a health care system?
They include the organizations that deliver care and fund that care. Ex: hospitals and health care providers
100
What is an example of a physical impairment?
blindness, deafness, loss of sight in an eye, paralysis of a limb, amputation of a limb, loss of speech.
100
What term best matches this description? Unfair treatment towards someone, generally because there is a prejudice against them.
interpersonal discrimination
100
Set of beliefs that have been created through policies and institutions based on the idea that men are superior to women?
Structural racism
100
Give examples of people who are in your social network?
- Friends, family, coworkers, neighbors. They are people that are going to likely affect your health.
200
What percentage of the United States population is uninsured?
8.5%
200
What it is when a person has rights and responsibilities as a person who has a socially legitimate illness?
Sick role
200
What is occupational prestige?
Social power associated with occupations.
200
What are the sited of many resources and constraints important for health?
Neighborhoods
200
What is Universal Coverage?
All people have affordable access to the medical services they need.
300
What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
Medicare is insurance given to individuals that are 65 of older. Medicaid is given to low income families.
300
What is an impairment?
- The loss or diminishment of one's physical or mental function. Examples of physical impairments are: blindness, deafness, loss of sight in an eye, paralysis of a limb, amputation of a limb, loss of speech.
300
A set of beliefs and social structure created through policies based on the idea that men are superior to women.
Structural sexism
300
What does the term Vigilance mean?
Anticipation and worry-related stress due to the burden of stigmatizing stereotypes about a social group.
300
what percent of people do not receive social support?
6%
400
What is the federal health care law, signed by President Obama that expanded health insurance coverage?
Affordable Care Act
400
How is a disability different from an illness?
They become disabilities when a society doesn’t provide such accommodations, and therefore prevents people with impairments from fully engaging in everyday life.
400
What is it called when one stressful experience cascades into other stressful experiences?
Stress Proliferation
400
In _______'s study of suicide noted that we are integrated into society in two ways; through attachment to others and by accepting and complying with society's values, beliefs, and norms.
Durkheim's
400
Describe the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic.
A pandemic is an “…outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence, generally affecting a significant proportion of the world’s population, usually over the course of several months.[74] Pandemics arise from epidemics, which are outbreaks of disease confined to one part of the world, such as a single country.”
500
Describe what the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active labor Act (EMTALA) is.
It is a Federal law requiring hospital emergency departments to stabilize or transfer people with medical emergencies or in labor, regardless of their health insurance status or ability to pay.
500
What is an illness that is considered the physical manifestation of a mental illness or stress?
Psychosomatic illness
500
Who wrote about stigma and mental illness and describe stigma in health is?
Erving Goffman wrote about stigma and mental illness. Stigma is a mark or label that disctedits a person as a form of social control. It is seeing soemone as their illness rather than as a person.
500
What two people showed that college educated adults had a lower mortality than adults with less education?
Evelyn Kitagawa and Philip Hauser
500
Describe a healthcare system in a different country?
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