Deck 8: Comparative Health Cultures

Question 1

Health education programs in developing countries often try to replace traditional cultural models of illness with scientific knowledge and understanding. One lesson from Dr. Coreil's work in Haiti can be described by which of the following statements?
a. Cultural beliefs often pose formidable barriers to new scientific information
b. Good outcomes may not always coincide with scientifically correct understanding
c. The social impact of interventions can be worse than the health impact
d. Traditional etiologic models often have much in common with scientific models

Answer 1

Good outcomes may always coincide with scientifically correct understanding

Question 2

Which of the following is a component of a cultural model of illness?
a. Social roles
b. Recovery narrative
c. Ethnicity
d. Social constructionism
Questions from lecture: Comparative Health Cultures

Answer 2

Recovery narrative

Question 3

The culture of public health is an example of which of the following?
a. Organizational culture
b. Ethnomedicine
c. Biomedical culture
d. Cultural competence

Answer 3

Organizational culture

Question 4

The illness is found more commonly in rural areas )

Question 5

Traditionally in Haiti persons with lymphatic filariasis were sometimes believed to be the victims of sorcery. This is an example of which of the following?
a. Immoral behavior
b. Bad blood
c. Etiologic model
d. Humoral model

Question 6

Urban women have higher use of medical services

Question 7

A cultural model refers to choose best answer):
a. A schema that represents the shared understanding of phenomena among members of a cultural group
b. A meta-model of disease causation
c. A description or analogy used to help visualize something that cannot be directly
d. observed
e. An international fashion icon

Question 8

"Pedisyon" is believed to be related to infertility

Question 9

The use of traditional healers in Haiti is an example of __________ of illness.
a. Etiologic model
b. Treatment model
c. Psychosocial impact
d. Popular sector

Question 10

County health departments often give priority to programs that meet client needs regardless of the profitability of the programs. This characteristic reflects which of the following component of organizational culture?
a. Organizational values
b. Organizational responsibility
c. Mission statement
d. Bureaucratic inefficiency

Question 11

Patterns of "pedisyon" may reflect medicalization

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a core value of public health?
a. Rationalism
b. Positivism
c. Profitability
d. Mastery over nature

Question 13

Haiti is unique in the world for having this kind of belief

Question 14

A mission statement of an organization is part of:
a. Organizational culture
b. Ethnomedical systems
c. Bureaucracies as sociocultural systems
d. Implicit assumptions