Deck 14: Theoretical Tools for a Sociological Analysis of Health and Health Care

Question 1

Sociology is the ONLY social scientific discipline to focus on health and illness as social phenomena.
Essay and Short-Answer Questions

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Health is generally considered to be a multidimensional concept that includes at least the following four interrelated dimensions:
1) ________________; 2) _________________; 3) ________________; 4) ___________________

Answer 2

Answers can include : p hysical, social, spiritual, mental, cultural, environmental, lifestyle

Question 3

The sociology of medicine is concerned with:

A) The generation of "knowledge" that can be used by physicians and others to improve the delivery of health care.
B) The generation of "knowledge" that can be used by patients to better navigate the health care system.
C) The critical study of medicine as a social organization.
D) The epistemological perspective of medicine.

Answer 3

The critical study of medicine as a social organization.

Question 4

Which of the following is one of the criticisms of the biomedical perspective.

A) It takes an individualist approach, treating disease as an individual problem.
B) It takes a biological approach, treating and curing most diseases.
C) It takes a structural approach, moving from personal troubles to social problems.
D) It takes a historical approach, moving through time to gauge how personal problems are rooted in the past.

Question 5

According to the World Health Organization, health is more than just the absence of disease.

Question 6

Which of the following is not a factor that contributed to the emergence of the sociology of health?

A) Changes in the conceptual framework of the study of health leading to the questioning of held assumptions about the benefits of modern medicine.
B) Refinements in sociological frameworks to better understand the diseased person and illness behaviour.
C) Improvements in methodological techniques for the analysis of population health.
D) Changes in the delivery of health care services to include disease prevention and health maintenance.

Question 7

One of the major differences between medical sociology and the sociology of health is that:

A) Physicians tend to favour medical sociology over the sociology of health.
B) Medical sociology focuses on general populations whereas the sociology of health focuses on patient populations.
C) Medical sociology focuses generally the study of health, not the practice of medicine.
D) The sociology of health focuses on both good health and illness.