Exam 15: Health and the Environment

Today, the United States has about 24 physicians per 10,000 people, while African nations have fewer than ________ physicians per 10,000 people.

Discuss the economic and racial dimensions of health insurance within the United States today. How do issues such as immigration, life spans, and the institutionalization of medicine play into the issue? Also, be sure to provide solution(s) you feel the U.S. should adopt so that more people are provided with health care.

A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards is referred to as

Out of the following nations, which has the highest infant mortality rate?

Which group makes up 43% of the people in the U.S. who live within one mile of dangerous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities?

Which sociologist developed the concept of the sick role?

Women have shorter life spans due to their lifestyle choices.

Which of the following is true of public perceptions about mental illness in the U.S. since 1950?

Your textbook refers to "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity" as

Environmental justice is a legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.

Medicine serves as an agent of social control by retaining absolute jurisdiction over many health care procedures.

Just as police and judges can define certain people as criminal, so can health care professionals define who is "sick." This power is described by

In what year did the American Psychiatric Association vote to drop homosexuality from the standard manual on mental disorders?

To date, 191 countries-not including the U.S.-are party to which agreement intended to reduce global emissions of heat-trapped gases?

What percent of U.S. citizens ages 65 and over are afflicted by Alzheimer's disease?

The industrialized nations of North America and Europe account for only 12 percent of the world's population but are responsible for what percentage of the world's consumption?

When did the American Medical Association come into being, after which it began attacking "lay" doctors and institutionalized its authority through standardized programs of education and licensing?

Culture contributes to differences in medical care and even how health is defined.

In the United States, the fear of contracting AIDS has likely led to changes in sexual behavior among both homosexuals and heterosexuals. Which sociological perspective would focus on these changes in sexual relationships?

In the view of which theorist do capitalist societies such as that of the United States care more about maximizing profits than they do about the health and safety of industrial workers?