Deck 1: Introduction to Womens Health

Question 1

From its beginning, the women's health movement embraced and advocated for women of all races and economic backgrounds.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The most effective way to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases in populations is to ignore gender-to treat men and women as complete equals.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The federal government's role in funding biomedical research is significant.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Susan Wood was the top official in charge of women's health at the FDA.

Question 5

Revisions to FDA policies in 1993 required drug studies to include women of childbearing age.

Question 6

Factors such as the hormonal variations caused by the menstrual cycle and the possible effects of a trial on a developing fetus can pose statistical and ethical challenges for clinical investigators.

Question 7

From its beginnings, the American feminist movement has been inclusive with respect to race, class, and sexual identity.

Question 8

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) legally binds 165 UN member states to take steps to promote women's equality and to report on the steps they have taken.

Question 9

Feminism is the idea that:

A) men and women are psychologically and biologically (with a few exceptions in the reproductive tract and other areas) equal to each other.
B) women should have the right to vote and be elected.
C) women should have the same rights, opportunities, and privileges as men.
D) women, on average, are more intelligent and rational than men.

Question 10

During the U.S. Civil War, who led a national effort to organize a nursing corps to care for the war's wounded and sick?

A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Dorothea Dix
C) Marie Curie
D) Florence Nightingale

Question 11

During World War II, many women entered the U.S. workforce. What happened to most of these women at the end of the war, when men returned from the front?

A) They usually had to leave their jobs and return to the home as men returned to the workforce.
B) They organized and formed the National Women's Labor Movement.
C) Most of them stayed in their jobs, working alongside their returning male counterparts.
D) Their positions were largely unaffected at the end of the war because they worked in positions that men typically did not work in.

Question 12

In what year did the FDA approve the birth control pill?

A) 1863
B) 1928
C) 1938
D) 1960

Question 13

What is the main objective of the Family and Medical Leave Act?

A) To provide unpaid medical leave for employees caring for a newborn baby, adopted child, or sick relative
B) To provide paid medical leave for employees caring for a newborn baby, adopted child, or sick relative
C) To provide new mothers with a source of affordable health insurance
D) To provide new mothers with access to any medical treatment funded by U.S. research

Question 14

Which of the following is true about the feminist movement?

A) It is an idea that has largely been ignored outside of the United States.
B) Most female intellectuals dismiss feminism as outdated because women have achieved equality to men in virtually all arenas.
C) From the beginning, it has embraced and given a voice to women from every race and background.
D) It continues to evolve while pursuing the idea that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men.

Question 15

As of 2019, how many women are in the U.S. Senate?

A) 7
B) 25
C) 36
D) 49

Question 16

What did the NIH Revitalization Act do for women's health?

A) It required that women and minorities be included as subjects in all human research funded by NIH.
B) It provided the first major funds for research on breast, cervical, and ovarian cancer.
C) It required that female scientists had the same funding opportunities as male scientists for all U.S.-funded research.
D) It gave federal employees unpaid medical leave to care for themselves or for family members who are ill.

Question 17

Which of the following statements is true?

A) Research from the completed Human Genome Project promises to significantly improve the public health.
B) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) oversee all government-sponsored women's health initiatives.
C) Medical research has largely refuted the idea of biological differences between the sexes beyond the reproductive organs.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 18

Who first began using the phrase "me too" to describe the widespread, but often silent, nature of sexual assault and harassment in the United States?

A) Alyssa Milano
B) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
C) Tarana Burke
D) Gloria Steinem

Question 19

Which of the following statements about the Violence Against Women Act is true?

A) Congress passed it as a response to the #metoo movement.
B) It made certain violent crimes committed against women illegal across the country.
C) It has effectively eliminated stalking, domestic violence, and other crimes against women.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 20

Gloria Steinem, a feminist, writer, and activist who started the magazine Ms. in 1972, and was most active from the 1960s to the 1990s, would be best categorized as an example of which generation of feminism?

A) First generation
B) Second generation
C) Third generation
D) None of these is correct.

Question 21

Which of the following statements about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is true?

A) It has received bipartisan Congressional support.
B) It provided a basic level of insurance coverage for all women.
C) It increased access to health insurance for about 6 million women from 2010 to 2019.
D) It reduced access to health insurance for about 10 million women from 2010 to 2019.

Question 22

Define maternal mortality. How has maternal mortality changed in the past century? Name two factors that contributed to this change.

Question 23

Gender-based research has determined that women and men experience heart attacks differently. Explain how including women in treatment research in the heart attack space improves the medical care that a woman suffering a heart attack will receive.

Question 24

Name three diseases or treatments in which gender exerts a significant influence. How do men and women react differently?

Question 25

Briefly describe the difference between analytic and descriptive studies. Which category do clinical trials fall into?