Exam 49: A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America

Louisiana's health problems such as low immunization rates and high rates of stroke have ______ origins.

Dialysis patients require all of the following except ______.

In the Southeast, the most common cause of kidney failure is ______.

The rate of kidney failure is ______ times higher for Blacks than Whites.

Summarize the sociological lessons revealed by the story of the dialysis patients.

When did access to dialysis become an entitlement through federal law?

The story of dialysis patients during Hurricane Katrina illustrates the problem of ______ dependence.

When did hemodialysis become an entitlement through federal law?

Historian Steven Peitzman notes that going on dialysis is nearly as familiar a part of African American life in the cities as ______.

A stretch of states across the American Southeast associated with high rates of stroke, an array of hypertension-related disorders, is known as the ______.

Which term was frequently used by news outlets to describe conditions in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, ______ patients were framed as a metaphor for health vulnerabilities.

Discuss the correlation between end-stage renal disease (ESRD), diabetes, and being Black.

What happens to dialysis patients who do not have access to regular dialysis treatment?

Identify three ailments that were receiving widespread public attention in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina struck.