Deck 4: Family Health: Beyond Illness and Disease

Question 1

Create three talking points explaining why it is important for Family Studies professionals to be aware of and include family health issues when working with or studying families.

Answer 1

*physical health issues impact how families cope with family relationships
*the interactive nature of physical and behaviors family health determinants influences how families cope with social and environmental demands
*family health is impacted by political determinants that in turn influence rates of family health disparities.

Question 2

What is integrative healing? Please include an example of this medical health approach.

Answer 2

Integrative healing is a collaborative approach in which both conventional (surgery and pharmaceuticals) and complementary strategies are used in treating illness. Example: the incorporation of yoga and physical therapy for a patient recovering from an accident.

Question 3

The Interactive Determinants of Family Health model is an ecological model. How is this model critical in understanding and improving the health of families and their members? Please include an example.

Answer 3

Example: childhood obesity - students outlines and notes the genetic, behavioral, social/cultural, environmental, and political influences at play when understanding the higher rates of childhood obesity among different racial and socioeconomic groups.

Question 4

A central element throughout the family life course is connectedness. How does connectedness influence family health? Please present your response using an example of a family health concern (besides obesity and depression).

Question 5

What is palliative care? Provide an example of how this impacts families.

Question 6

George Engel, MD, challenged conventional medicine with his model that emphasizes

A) Psychological
B) Sociological
C) Biological
D) All of the above

Question 7

The correct term for the combination of conventional and complementary medicines is

A) Integrative
B) Cohesive
C) Collective
D) Intensive

Question 8

The Institute of Medicine calls for teams of researchers studying health problems to work as integrative team. This approach is called

A) Multidisciplinary
B) Interdisciplinary
C) Transdisciplinary
D) monodisciplinary

Question 9

Childhood obesity is a health challenge that impacts health and health care immediately and into the future. Which of the interactive determinants of family health influence this health condition?

A) Biological
B) Behavioral
C) Sociological
D) All of the above

Question 10

Knowing your family health history is a vital part of the _______ interactive determinant of the Family Health Model, Figure 4.1 in the text.

A) Biological
B) Behavioral
C) Sociological
D) Environmental

Question 11

Which interactive family health determinant (Figure 4.1 in the text.) plays a significant role in global migration due to poverty, violence, and war?

A) Biological
B) Behavioral
C) Sociological
D) Environmental

Question 12

Health disparities emerging from inequalities profoundly influence family health. This concept is part of the _______ interactive determinant in Figure 4.1 in the text.

A) Biological
B) Behavioral
C) Sociological
D) Environmental

Question 13

Physicians and medical care experts agree that Americans spend over a third of all health care dollars on aggressive measures primarily during which stage of life?

A) Conceiving
B) Birthing
C) Growing and developing
D) Dying

Question 14

The following are true statements concerning the Affordable Car Act of 2010 EXCEPT

A) Keeps the preexisting medical conditions clause to deny coverage
B) Ends the practice of 'recision' when insurers dropped people diagnosed or place medical claim
C) Requires mental health parity
D) Extends coverage to adult children until age 26 years

Question 15

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010 _____ percent of American adults 20 years and older were overweight or obese.

A) 38
B) 48
C) 58
D) 68

Question 16

Between 1976-1980 and 2007-2008, the obesity rate for children aged 6 to 11 years

A) Remained constant
B) Doubled
C) Tripled
D) Quadrupled

Question 17

Family members living with depression suffer

A) Socially
B) Physically
C) Economically
D) All of the above

Question 18

Depression is not a weakness but a medical condition, yet only ____ percent of Americans diagnosed with major depression receive treatment for it.

A) 11
B) 31
C) 51
D) 71

Question 19

All of the following are symptoms of depression in males EXCEPT

A) Increased work productivity
B) Anger
C) Substance abuse
D) Interrupted sleep patterns

Question 20

Depression among youth is a highly recurrent disorder with over ____ percent of depressed individuals enduring more than one depressive episode and relapses.

A) 15
B) 35
C) 55
D) 75

Question 21

As life expectancy rates climb, we also see significant increases in the category "oldest-old," which includes those aged

A) 100 and older
B) 95 and older
C) 85 and older
D) 75 and older

Question 22

Engaging in ______ lowers the risk of cognitive impairments.

A) Drinking wine
B) Regular physical activity
C) Regular doctor visits
D) Becoming wealthy

Question 23

The highest rates of infant mortality (deaths per 1,000 births) were recorded among

A) Non-Hispanic black infants
B) Non-Hispanic white infants
C) Hispanic infants
D) American Indian and Alaskan Native infants

Question 24

Dying and death is _____ of the medical community.

A) part
B) failure
C) result
D) All the above

Question 25

The hospice team provides the dying and his or her family with palliative care which

A) hastens the death process
B) postpones the death process
C) relieves the symptoms, pain and stress of the illness
D) only assists the patient in the dying process