Deck 15: A: Health,aging,and Disabilities

Question 1

Canada has a socialized medical system.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Following a Supreme Court challenge launched in the early 1980s,euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are both legal in Canada under certain limited circumstances.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The most common disability for Canadians between the ages of 15 and 64 is mental illness.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The World Health Organization (WHO)defines health in primarily negative terms;namely,as a "state characterized by the absence of disease or infirmity."

Question 5

Canada's Health Act ensures that all citizens with disabilities are able to access the equipment they need to assist with daily living.

Question 6

People who are of minority status might have a lower life expectancy than those who are not of minority status because they are biologically predisposed to have lower life expectancy.

Question 7

Life expectancy is the same as lifespan.

Question 8

Recent research suggests that virtually all disability rates are increasing.

Question 9

To a great extent,the entire medical establishment has a vested interest in sponsoring sickness.

Question 10

Medicalization refers to the fact that more disorders are being diagnosed due to advances in science.

Question 11

By some measures,obesity affects almost half of the Canadian population.

Question 12

Canadians involved with alternative health care generally reject conventional medicinal approaches.

Question 13

It is generally the case that lower income Canadians will experience very little change in income upon and throughout retirement.

Question 14

According to functionalists,the pressure either to exclude or embrace the elderly is a direct consequence of labour market conditions.

Question 15

Symbolic interactionists stress the fact that people use the terms health and illness as opposites,where in fact what can be considered healthy falls within a wide spectrum.