Deck 8: Socio-Cultural Factors in Health Communication

Question 1

Using White cultural practices as the norm is an example of:

A) Culturalism
B) Othering
C) Health disparity
D) Cultural competency
E) Weathering

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Geronimus et al. (2006)'s finding that non-poor Black individuals had worse physicality than poor White individuals illustrates which concept?

A) Health disparities
B) Weathering
C) Cultural competency
D) Microaggressions
E) Othering

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Telling an Asian person, "Your English is so good" implies that you might not have expected the person to speak English well in the first place. This is an example of:

A) Health disparities
B) Weathering
C) Susto
D) Microaggressions
E) Othering

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What are the brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial, gender, sexual-orientation, and religious slights and insults to the target person or group?

A) Health disparities
B) Weathering
C) Susto
D) Microaggressions
E) Othering

Question 5

According to our text, research has found that black people living in Harlem have worse death rates than those living in Bangladesh. This is a result of (among other things):

A) Health disparities
B) Weathering
C) Susto
D) Microaggressions
E) Othering

Question 6

Viewing culture as a variable most closely represents which metatheoretical paradigm?

A) Scientific paradigm
B) Interpretive paradigm
C) Critical-cultural paradigm

Question 7

Illness corresponds to which perspective?

A) Disease
B) Voice of Medicine
C) Voice of Lifeworld
D) medical beliefs

Question 8

Which of the following is a form of racial discrimination in health?

A) Health disparities
B) Weathering
C) Cultural competency
D) Microaggressions
E) Othering

Question 9

Viewing culture as context most closely represents which metatheoretical paradigm?

A) Scientific paradigm
B) Interpretive paradigm
C) Critical-cultural paradigm

Question 10

Your Zip Code predicts how long you'll live.

Question 11

The infant mortality rate is different for white women and black women.

Question 12

Health disparities are greater within the United States than the disparities between other countries.

Question 13

In general, culture, race, and ethnicity are the same thing.

Question 14

Racial disparities are often entangled with class-based disparities in health.

Question 15

Illness is the professional medical diagnosis and description of a condition, whereas disease is the experience, perception, and meaning of symptoms.

Question 16

In Ho and Bylund's (2008) study, all of the acupuncturists presented acupuncture as a holistic medicine that took into account a whole person to heal, and they agreed that holism also meant that they were more collaborative in their interactions.

Question 17

What is the difference between studying culture as a variable and culture as context?

Question 18

What is "health disparity" and what are some examples of health disparities?

Question 19

What is "susto," and how does it illustrate culture as context?

Question 20

What is community-based participatory research, and what are some of the paradoxes entailed in the method?

Question 21

What kind of data did Wang et al. (2012) collect, how did they analyze the data, and what did they find?