Question 1

What do we know about the problem of obesity in North America that shows this to be a social and cultural issue?

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Question 2

Define euthanasia. What is active euthanasia?

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Question 3

Why is cigarette smoking considered the leading preventable cause of death in Canada? Describe the health consequences of smoking cigarettes. What categories of people are most and least likely to smoke? Has the smoking hazard always been recognized? Why, in your opinion, is cigarette smoking still common, especially among college students?

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Question 4

What is socialized medicine? How does it differ from a direct-fee medical care system?

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Question 5

What is "two-tiered health care"? Identify the positive and negative consequences of such a system. Overall, do you think we should have such a system in Canada? Why or why not?

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Question 6

Compare and contrast structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and social-conflict theory in terms of how each can help us organize and interpret facts and issues concerning human health.

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Question 7

How might we encourage more men to go into the field of nursing?

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Question 8

Describe patterns of health in low-income countries. What are the most common diseases and causes of death? How do such patterns differ in high-income nations?

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Question 9

What is the "sick role"?

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Question 10

Write an essay that explains the importance of social class to human health. How does people's income affect the extent and quality of treatment they receive? Do you think the inequality described here is a serious problem or not? Why?

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Question 11

Discuss how certain occupations put people at higher-than-average risk of accident or death.

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Question 12

What is social epidemiology? Answer by sketching patterns of health for the Canadian population, taking account of (a) gender, (b) social class, and (c) race.

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Question 13

Discuss methods of HIV transmission in Canada and in the world as a whole.

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Question 14

Use the case of obesity as the focus of an essay that explains why health and illness are as much societal and cultural issues as they are a medical issue.

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Question 15

How does holistic medicine differ from scientific medicine?

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Question 16

What is the contribution to understanding health and medicine made by each of sociology's three major theoretical approaches? Consider the structural-functional, symbolic-interaction, and social-conflict approaches in turn. Do they agree on any points?

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Question 17

Discuss the idea that 30 years from now, the stereotypical physician may well be female.

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Question 18

Discuss the "right to die" debate. How has modern technology created this debate in the first place? What are the arguments for legal euthanasia? What are the arguments against it? Which side do you find more convincing? Why?

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Question 19

How important are the social dimensions of medical care? Discuss in terms of social versus biological dimensions.

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Question 20

Describe the shortage of nurses in North America. What are several reasons for this shortage?

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Quiz 21: Health and Medicine