Deck 21: A: Health and Medicine

Question 1

Eating disorders have much to do with how our society defines femininity.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Diseases such as heart disease and cancer are the leading killers in low-income nations.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

People with more money to spend are more likely to become obese.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Industrialization gradually led to dramatic improvements in human health.

Question 5

General health and life expectancy tend to be lower for immigrants than for those born in Canada.

Question 6

The World Health Organization claims half of all humanity suffers from illness caused by poverty.

Question 7

Social epidemiology is the study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society's population.

Question 8

From a sociological point of view,health may be a matter of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Question 9

Social factors have little to do with cigarette smoking.

Question 10

Because of so many auto accidents,death rates among young people are much higher than they were a century ago.

Question 11

In much of the world,illness and poverty form a vicious circle,with each increasing the other.

Question 12

Over the course of the last century,an important health trend in North America has been a rising death rate from infectious diseases.

Question 13

Fifty years ago,on average,few people in North America understood the dangers of cigarette smoking or excessive sun exposure.

Question 14

Worldwide,more than 3 billion adults smoke cigarettes.

Question 15

Cultural patterns define what is or is not healthy.

Question 16

In Canada,people with higher incomes have a more positive assessment of their personal health than people with low incomes.

Question 17

Per capita,Canada was hardest hit by H1N1.

Question 18

India and China contain 40% of the world's cigarette smokers.

Question 19

Social inequality affects a society's patterns of health.

Question 20

Genital herpes is a curable sexually transmitted disease.

Question 21

The U.S.health care system is one example of the model called socialized medicine.

Question 22

One criticism of the social-conflict analysis is that it minimizes the improvements in health care brought about by scientific medicine.

Question 23

Heterosexual sex cannot transmit AIDS.

Question 24

About one month after being infected,most people with HIV begin to display symptoms.

Question 25

AIDS cannot be spread through sneezing.

Question 26

Holistic medicine seeks to change the focus of medical practice from treating symptoms of disease to preventing disease and promoting health.

Question 27

The world region with the highest rate of HIV infection is the Middle East.

Question 28

Parsons claimed that,to qualify for the sick role,a person must want to become healthy and act in ways to restore health.

Question 29

Anal sex is a behaviour that places people at higher risk for transmitting HIV.

Question 30

Talcott Parsons developed the concept of the "sick role."

Question 31

Social-conflict analysis claims the profit motive enhances the quality of medical care in the United States.

Question 32

Today's advanced medical technology has made the definition of death much clearer.

Question 33

Advances in human genetics hold out promise to prevent disease but also raise ethical issues about how this technology should be used.

Question 34

About half of all physicians in Canada are women.

Question 35

The role of government in providing medical care is greater in the United States than in other high-income nations.

Question 36

The rise of scientific medicine in Canada began with the founding of the Canadian Medical Association in 1847

Question 37

Social definitions have little to do with health and illness,which are medical conditions involving human biology.

Question 38

Active euthanasia refers to using a physician's services to bring about a patient's death.