Recreation & Leisure
Illnesses & Treatment
The Media
Social Inequality, Health, and Illness
Other Related Terms
100
Term that refers to time that can be spent relaxing, engaging in recreation, or otherwise indulging in freely chosen activities.
What is leisure?
100
Diseases that have a sudden onset, may be briefly incapacitating, and are either curable or fatal.
What are acute diseases?
100
Two trends going on today with ownership in business is conglomeration and the increase in the number of _____.
What are mergers?
100
The study of disease patterns to understand illnesses, how they spread, and how to treat them.
What is epidemiology?
100
An individual who serves as an example for others to strive toward and emulate.
What is a role model?
200
Term that refers to any pleasurable activity that is refreshing and renewing for the body, mind, and spirit.
What is recreation?
200
Diseases that develop over a longer period of time and may not be detected until symptoms occur later in their progression.
What are chronic diseases?
200
According to this theory, media consumers are passive, uncritical recipients of content.
What is the Magic Bullet Theory?
200
Impacts people’s ability to access better heath care, tests and medications, and also to afford better nutrition.
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
200
Describes the actions and attitudes expected from someone who is ill.
What is a sick role?
300
Has impacted leisure and recreation greatly over the years.
What is technology?
300
The kind of healthcare that treats a problem after it has already started.
What is curative or crisis medicine?
300
Theory that explains the effects of media through the interpretive activity of the audience members.
What is the active audience theory?
300
Poor, urban neighborhoods without grocery stores where it is hard to find a variety of healthy food options.
What are food deserts?
300
This can be any informal public place where people come together regularly for conversation and camaraderie when not at work or home.
What is a third place?
400
Many leisure activities have shifted from the ____ to the ____ sphere, such as people spending more time at home.
What is public and private?
400
Kind of health care that tries to prevent or delay a problem.
What is preventative medicine?
400
This focuses on the psychological or social needs that various media fulfill.
What is the uses and gratification paradigm?
400
____ and _____ are compounded by income, as minorities and women are more likely to be in poverty.
What is race and gender?
400
When a person’s cultural background is acknowledged as part of the treatment process.
What is cultural competence?
500
Goods or services that are bought or sold. Leisure and recreation have become more of this.
What are commodities?
500
Kind of health care that focuses on symptom and pain relief (not intended to provide a cure).
What is palliative care?
500
This combines models and recognizes that media texts are created to deliver specific messages and that individuals actually interpret them.
What is the encoding/decoding model?
500
Occurs when the risks we already have because of our background or heredity are amplified by social factors.
What is deprivation amplification?
500
Refers to organizations, institutions, and interactions outside of government, family, and work that promote social bonds and the smooth functioning of society.
What is social society?