Deck 16: The Body, medicine, health, and Health Care

Question 1

Which of these often leads to dissatisfaction with the body,especially because of influence from peers and media?

A)reflexivity
B)hypersexuality
C)consumptive beauty
D)adolescence

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Increasingly the Internet offers more and more health information for consumers.Which of these is a result according to your text?

A)People see doctors more often.
B)Patients are more informed about their health.
C)Patients are more likely to see women doctors.
D)People have increased their insurance coverage.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of these is associated with the decreasing power of doctors according to your text?

A)lack of insurance coverage and patient ability to pay
B)increasing feminization of the field
C)patients through the internet can inform themselves about medical problems and options
D)less government regulation

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Mitchell is a wrestler who frequently stops eating to make his goal weight for matches.Mitchell may be at risk for which of these?

A)anorexia
B)hyperanorexia
C)hypoanorexia
D)manorexia

Question 5

Exercise-related injuries in sports have been ______ in recent years.

A)stagnant
B)decreasing
C)increasing
D)impossible to document

Question 6

Michael Foucault's best-known book is which of these?

A)The Mind and Body Connection
B)Discipline and Punish
C)The History of the Body
D)The Alteration of the Mind

Question 7

What percentage of the U.S.adult population report having one or more tattoos?

A)12%
B)22%
C)42%
D)62%

Question 8

Looks-related stress and depression can be found globally among men and women; however,______ are particularly susceptible.

A)young women
B)older women
C)athletic men
D)out-of-shape men

Question 9

Which industry has the highest rate of fatal work injuries?

A)manufacturing
B)construction
C)transportation
D)mining and oil and gas extraction

Question 10

By 2018 women earned what percentage of medical degrees?

A)17%
B)27%
C)47%
D)67%

Question 11

According to Ryan Hatch,what must be included to adequately address Metabolic Syndrome?

A)mental health
B)social and environmental factors
C)age
D)media coverage

Question 12

Metabolic Syndrome refers to a combination of conditions including high blood sugar,high blood pressure,high cholesterol,and which of these?

A)high mental distress
B)low immune function
C)high body mass
D)low pain tolerance

Question 13

On average,what percentage of men's pay do women physicians make?

A)100%
B)80%
C)60%
D)50%

Question 14

Which of these is a commodity that people may try to buy through great effort,pain,and large sums of money?

A)self-esteem
B)beauty
C)reflexivity
D)happiness

Question 15

What does German sociologist Ulrich Beck mean when he says we live in a risk society?

A)People are afraid to take risks.
B)People who are poor tend to take more risks.
C)Many people take risks that endanger their heath,their bodies,and their lives.
D)People from larger cities tend to take more risks than those from rural areas.

Question 16

What is the topic of Michel Foucault's book The Birth of the Clinic?

A)the treatment of criminals and their bodies
B)the historical shift in doctors focus from lists of diseases to human beings
C)the importance of sexuality and the role of the body in obtaining sexual pleasure
D)the development of gender-differentiated medical research

Question 17

What is the premise of Naomi Wolf's book The Beauty Myth?

A)Beauty standards are biological.
B)Peers are strong influencers of girl's body image.
C)The media sets unattainable standards for beauty.
D)Most women are no longer concerned with beauty because of feminism.

Question 18

The process of deprofessionalization refers to the fact that the power of ______ has declined in recent years,whereas the power of ______ has increased.

A)doctors; nurses
B)doctors; patients
C)surgeons; nurses
D)nurses; surgeons

Question 19

Which of these is an example of a risky behavior?

A)cigarette smoking
B)dancing
C)texting
D)professional skiing

Question 20

Young girls are increasingly concerned with their physical appearance,going on diets and turning to extreme forms of exercising.Which society is associated with this phenomenon?

A)hyperflexive society
B)hypoflexive society
C)automative society
D)reflexive society

Question 21

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health must now include proportionate numbers of which of these unless researchers receive a special dispensation to bypass this requirement?

A)women
B)children
C)racial minorities
D)disabled individuals

Question 22

Which of these is TRUE for Black Americans?

A)They are overrepresented in high-status health care positions.
B)They are likely to overuse the medical system.
C)The stress they experience from racism contributes to decreased life expectancy.
D)They continue to lack medical representation in research studies.

Question 23

Why does medicine cost so much in the U.S.?

A)People in the U.S.don't engage in preventative health care and are sicker when they go to doctors
B)The U.S.has a young population with many medical needs.
C)The medical industry is driven by a for-profit model.
D)U.S.medicine is actually very cost-effective.

Question 24

Which of these is correlated with poorer health?

A)lower social class
B)born before 1970
C)from any social class but engage in bad health habits
D)male

Question 25

In 2017,the U.S.spent ______ of its GDP on health expenditures,ranking ______ in country expenditures as a proportion of GDP.

A)0.7%; last
B)7%; twentieth
C)10.7%,fiftieth
D)17%; first

Question 26

Which of these is a key aspect of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?

A)All people in the U.S.are required to have health insurance.
B)Medicaid coverage is decreased for the poor.
C)Employers with more than 200 employees are required to provide health insurance for them.
D)Health insurance companies most cover 50% of applicants who have pre-existing conditions.

Question 27

Sandy is a nurse who is often asked to engage in helping her patients emotionally cope as well as physically recover.Sandy is experiencing which of these?

A)discrimination
B)occupational segregation
C)emotion work
D)intuitive labor

Question 28

Studies show the ratio of men to women who have coronary artery disease is which of these?

A)widening
B)staying the same
C)narrowing
D)not a concern to doctors

Question 29

The greatest problem in the less-developed world is which of these?

A)undernutrition
B)overnutrition
C)diminishing population
D)unsanitary conditions

Question 30

Which of these groups is most at risk of developing acute and chronic diseases in low- and middle-income countries?

A)children
B)middle-aged men
C)middle-aged women
D)elderly men and women

Question 31

People in the lower social classes have a greater likelihood of experiencing which of these?

A)poor health
B)adequate housing
C)live in the suburbs and feel a sense of security
D)are unlikely to take illegal drugs

Question 32

Which type of practice allows someone to retain a physician as their private doctor,paying an annual fee as well as an appointment fee?

A)concierge medicine
B)deprofessionalized medicine
C)group medicine
D)telemedicine

Question 33

Which of these have been medicalized for women?

A)diabetes
B)reproductive health
C)coronary artery disease
D)headaches

Question 34

Annette has a sore throat and she contacts a service called iPhysician on the Internet to get instant information.Which of these is she enlisting?

A)concierge medicine
B)telemedicine
C)doctor blogging
D)deprofessionalization

Question 35

How many years less is Black Americans' life expectancy than White Americans'?

A)1.7
B)3.7
C)10.7
D)15.7

Question 36

Countries in the ______ suffer disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition.

A)Global West
B)Global North
C)Global East
D)Global South

Question 37

Which of these is the process of labeling as an illness a phenomenon or syndrome that was NOT previously considered such?

A)telemedicine
B)medical tourism
C)medicalization
D)deprofessionalization

Question 38

Which of these is the best example of increasing consumerism in contemporary medicine?

A)the decision to market pharmaceutical drugs directly to consumers
B)the use of the Internet to self-diagnose
C)the willingness to travel to other countries to obtain drugs or operations that are illegal in the U.S.
D)the increased use of complementary and alternative medicine around the world

Question 39

Which of these is associated with the rise of Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)premiums?

A)too many young people enrolled
B)doctors began to charge much more for services
C)too many healthy people enrolled
D)too many sick people enrolled

Question 40

Why is there little knowledge regarding women and coronary heart disease?

A)Doctors often refuse to treat women who have this disease.
B)Women were historically not included in clinical trials.
C)This subject is not covered in medical schools.
D)Women are less likely to visit a doctor if they feel unwell.

Question 41

Metabolic syndrome,while based on real physical markers,is also a social construct that fails to consider social and environmental factors.

Question 42

Tattoos and piercings continue to be seen as culturally deviant.

Question 43

Which area has been most devastated by AIDS?

A)Middle East and North Africa
B)Eastern and Southern Africa
C)Latin America
D)Asia and the Pacific

Question 44

Sociologist Ulrich Beck argues that we live in a body-oriented society.

Question 45

It may well be that taking some risks makes some people happier and mentally,and perhaps even physically,healthier.

Question 46

Which of these is TRUE of the effect of war on health and well-being?

A)Twice as much money in the developing world is spent on the military than is spent on health and education.
B)Fifty percent of war casualties are civilians.
C)Warfare significantly increases negative mental health outcomes.
D)Warfare unexpectedly has a positive effect on food insecurity.

Question 47

In consumer culture,beauty has become a commodity that can be bought through great effort,often pain,and almost always expenditures of large sums of money.

Question 48

Which of these is TRUE of the Ebola vaccine?

A)No vaccine has been developed because no technologies exist to combat Ebola.
B)No vaccine has been developed because too few people have died from Ebola.
C)After people from developed countries were infected drug companies have made significant progress in developing a vaccine.
D)A successful vaccine has been developed and people are now routinely vaccinated.

Question 49

According to the World Health Organization,how many people die globally each year because of direct tobacco use?

A)2 million
B)4 million
C)6 million
D)10 million

Question 50

African American women report more satisfaction with their bodies than biracial women.

Question 51

Medical sociology addresses a wide variety of specific issues such as racial-ethnic differences in health care.

Question 52

Looks-related stress affects primarily men today,a significant shift from the past.

Question 53

According to the chapter text,one reason that sociologists see health and the body as a major concern for sociology is because health issues vary by social categories such as race and gender.

Question 54

Which of these is more likely to be found in the Global North than the Global South?

A)superbugs
B)MRIs
C)flu
D)Ebola

Question 55

Which of these exists when people do NOT have access to safe and nutritious food?

A)food security
B)food stress
C)food shortages
D)food insecurity

Question 56

Michel Foucault's work focused on the relationship between bodies,society,and culture.

Question 57

Bacteria resistant to all drugs are known as which of these? A.superbugs
B)Spanish flu bugs
C)post-antibiotic strains
D)flus

Question 58

The culture turn toward reflexivity has had positive and negative effects on people's bodies.

Question 59

Which of these has its greatest impact on the less well-off and most vulnerable populations in the developing world?

A)malaria
B)cholera
C)mononucleosis
D)tuberculosis

Question 60

The global mobility of borderless diseases can be attributed to which of these?

A)decreases in human migration that keep diseases in one country,making them more virulent
B)restrictions on global travel that don't allow for doctors to assist in global care
C)increases in human involvement regarding natural habitats previously untouched by human beings
D)failure of pharmaceutical companies to create new medications

Question 61

One effect of globalization is that all populations are now aware of the health risks associated with smoking.

Question 62

The lower one's social class,the poorer one's health is likely to be.

Question 63

The Internet's medical services and information is highly regulated to ensure the quality of products and information.

Question 64

The high cost of healthcare in the U.S.produces excellent outcomes such as lowest global rates of infant mortality and highest life expectancy.

Question 65

Telemedicine increases the amount of time that patients must spend on travel and waiting for appointments.

Question 66

One major recent change for the medical profession is the decline of patients as prosumers.

Question 67

Migration has contributed to the increase in "borderless diseases."

Question 68

The nursing profession has changed in recent years from female-dominated to male-dominated.

Question 69

Deprofessionalization is associated with decreased status,decreased autonomy,and decreased wealth.

Question 70

Concierge practice is a new form of affordable medical care.

Question 71

Blacks tend to underutilize the health care system and be healthier than whites.

Question 72

Discuss the role the media has played regarding women and beauty.Give two specific examples from your own life experiences.

Question 73

The population that is most vulnerable to the spread of HIV/AIDS is the least likely to have access to high-quality health care and expensive drugs that can slow the progress of the disease.

Question 74

The medical profession has gotten more diverse over the last 50 years,but white males still make the highest starting salaries on average.

Question 75

Childbirth is treated as a sickness in the U.S.

Question 76

Medicalization is the process of labeling and defining aspects of life as medical problems that were NOT previously so labeled and defined.

Question 77

Early childhood differences in health by social class tend to have long-lasting effects over the life span.

Question 78

Undernutrition is a form of malnutrition that mainly affects people in the most developed countries.

Question 79

In 2017,the cost of health care spending in the U.S.was about $1,739 per person.

Question 80

The Internet has enabled the rise of prosumers around health care.