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Sociological Perspectives
Social Epidemiology
U.S. Health Care
Alternative Medicine
Government Roles
100
What are the four sociological perspectives on health and illness?
What are functionalism, conflict theory, interactionism, and labeling theory.
100
What two terms are most commonly used in social epidemiology?
What are "incidence" and "prevalence."
100
True or False: Health clinics are located in retail stores throughout the United States, including Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart?
What is True.
100
What type of medicine refers to therapies in which the health care practitioner considers the person's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual characteristics?
What is Holistic medicine.
100
What program is basically a health insurance plan for the elderly?
What is Medicare.
200
Which perspective notes that emigration out of the Third World by physicians is yet another way that the world's core industrialized nations enhance their quality of life at the expense of developing countries?
What is conflict theory.
200
What term "incidence" or "prevalence" refers to the total number of cases of a specific disorder that exists at a given time?
What is prevalence.
200
True or False: Retail clinics deliver the same or better-quality care than traditional medical settings for sore throat, middle ear infection, and urinary tract infection?
What is True.
200
One in how many adults in the U.S. attempt to maintain good health through the use of alternative healthcare techniques?
What is three.
200
What is a federal and state insurance plan for the poor?
What is Medicaid.
300
In which perspective do physicians function as gatekeepers for the sick role, either verifying a person's condition as "illness or designating the person as "recovered?"
What is functionalism.
300
In 2010, there were 48,079 reported new cases of AIDS in the U.S. Is this an example of incidence or prevalence?
What is incidence?
300
What term refers to the process through which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of society?
What is McDonaldization.
300
What percent of people living in the poorest countries in the world use some form of alternative medicine? a. 20% b. 40% c. 60% d. 80%
What is 80%.
300
What is the act that improved health insurance coverage for people of all ages, especially young adults, who were allowed to remain longer on their parents' policies?
What is the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
400
Which perspective suggests that the designation of a person as "healthy" or "ill" generally involves social definition by others?
What is labeling theory.
400
Compared with Whites, Blacks have higher death rates from: a. heart disease b. diabetes c. cancer d. all of the above
What is all of the above. (heart disease, diabetes, cancer)
400
In what sociologist's view do doctors hold a position of dominance and control rewards?
What is Talcott Parsons
400
What is the most commonly used form of alternative medicine in the U.S.?
What is prayer.
400
True or False: Starting in 2014, health insurance plans can't refuse to cover you or charge you more just because you have a pre-existing health condition?
What is True? There is one exception. Grandfathered individual health insurance plans, the kind you buy yourself, not through an employer, don't have to cover pre-existing conditions.
500
From the point of view of this perspective, patients are passive, and they actively seek the services of a health care practitioner.
What is interactionism.
500
Which one of the following nations has the lowest infant mortality rate? a. United States b. Mozambique c. Canada d. Sweden
What is Sweden.
500
What is one factor that strains the physician-patient relationship in the U.S.?
What are malpractice suits, high medical costs, patient overload, cost-cutting by hospitals...
500
Where were holistic medical principles first developed?
What is China.
500
What is a national health care plan aimed at reforming the American health care system?
What is Obama Care.