Deck 21: B: Health and Medicine

Question 1

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

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Question 2

How does social class affect human health?

Answer 2

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Question 3

List four reasons sociologists claim that health is a societal as well as medical issue.

Answer 3

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Question 4

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

Question 5

What would you argue are the most serious threats to the health of Canadians? Explain your choices.

Question 6

How does holistic medicine differ from scientific medicine?

Question 7

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

Question 8

Why do many people consider cigarette smoking a major health problem in Canada?

Question 9

In the event of a pandemic influenza in Canada,how should we decide who receives antivirals,first,second,and third? Justify your choices.

Question 10

What is the "sick role"?

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Define euthanasia.What is active euthanasia?

Question 15

What is social epidemiology? How can this study improve human health?

Question 16

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