Theories
Key Terms
Race & Health
Place & Health
Mixed Bag
100

This theory argues that physical/mental conditions are objectively not real but considered healthy or ill based on societal standards.

Social Interactionism

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

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

white women

100

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

Rural

100

The more "robust" gender (of the gender binary) is...

Women

200

The sociological theory that argues a society with good health and a well-functioning healthcare system is considered successful is...

Functionalism

200

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

Fatphobia

200

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

200

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

Redlining

200

This system is defined by its male-dominated, -centered, -identified, and –obsessed character

Patriarchy

300

This theory argues that health status and inequalities differ across racial, class, and gender lines. EX: gender differences in eating disorders

Conflict Theory

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

White people

300

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

Highways

300

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

OB/Gyn

400

The theory that argues racial and ethnic minority group members have different levels of health risks due to the social and environmental factors in their areas is...

Socioenvironmental Theory

400

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

Structural Violence

400

Unethical experimental trials of what drug were conducted on Puerto Rican women?

Birth control pill

400

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

Yellow
400

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

Impervious surfaces

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

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

Social Determinants of Health

500

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

Forceps or C-Section
500

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

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
500

Race, physical environments, and gender are examples of what key word defined by Barkan (textbook)?

Upstream factors