Exam 7: Illness,health and the Pursuit of Wellbeing

What is the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Socio-economic Index for Areas (SEIFA)?

In less than 500 words,explain the four features of biomedicine.

Which of the following is a human condition that has come under the remit of the medical profession yet does not have a medical cure?

Sociological analysis of biomedicine argues which of the following?

Make a list of short sentences that provide at least five examples of social reforms that were crucial to the increased life expectancy of the Australian population in the past 100 years.

Which sociologist(s)argued that contemporary attitudes to obesity and overweight are akin to a moral panic?

Research shows that inequitable distribution of power,money and resources has no direct affect on health.

Michel Foucault theorises that:

Which of the following is an example medicalization; i.e.the redefining of normal human bodily experiences as a medical problem?

Which of the following best describes victim blaming as defined by Germov (2002)?

What percentage of the population does the World Health Organization maintain needs immunisation to prevent a measles outbreak?

Using Foucault's notion of the clinical gaze,show the ways that the medical profession constructs a discourse of normalcy (health)versus deviance (illness).

The statistical measures provided by epidemiological research of health across the population help to establish:

Briefly list the incentives that have been offered by health insurance companies or the government to encourage people to take out private medical insurance.What are the reasons that individuals might not take out private medical insurance?

Which of the following is associated with the growing appeal of alternative medicines?

Which of the following is not correlated to improvements in life expectancy in the Australian population?

Which of the following describes the health of the Australian population today rather than 100 years ago?

Environmental risks and lifestyle factors are implicated in individual's health prospects across the life-course.In view of these factors,draw on previous sociological research to suggest three ways to improve individual health outcomes,with reference to particular demographic groups if applicable.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the link between obesity and class?

Foucault argues that medicine has replaced religion,in particular,as a source of ideas about the management of bodies.Explain what this means and use examples from popular culture to support your explanation.