Deck 9: Health and Illness

Question 1

What is Care Across Generations?

A) An advocacy group that seeks to address the needs of caregivers for older Americans by enhancing care worker salaries and providing public funding for family caregivers
B) A global charity that seeks to support parents and children living with HIV/AIDS through healthcare and prescription drug programs
C) A anti-abortion group which seeks to provide alternatives to abortion through funding of housing, education, and jobs programs
D) The name of a sterilization abuse program that operated in many states until the 1970s and was responsible for thousands of forced sterilizations.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

How does lung cancer affect women compared to other cancers?

A) It kills very few women in comparison to other cancers, because men make up the majority of smokers.
B) It kills more women each year than breast cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cancers combined.
C) It kills as many women as breast cancer does.
D) Breast cancer, uterine cancer, and ovarian cancer kill as many women each year as lung cancer.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

How does life expectancy differ between race ethnicities and genders in the United States?

A) White males outlive African American males by an average of 4-5years, while white females outlive African American females by an average of three years.
B) White females outlive African American females by an average of five years, but white males and African American males have similar life expectancies.
C) White males and females outlive African American males and females by an average of five to six years.
D) White males and females outlive African American males and females by an average of fifteen years.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What has been the effect in developing countries of the neoliberal free-trade system that eliminates trade barriers and allows corporations to travel the world in search of labor?

A) Disruption of local economies
B) Forced massive migrations of people in search of jobs
C) Accelerated impoverishment and insecurity of workers
D) All of the above

Question 5

How has the maternal mortality rate in the United States changed since 1987?

A) It has been reduced by half.
B) It has doubled.
C) It has remained the same.
D) It has been reduced by 75%.

Question 6

Reported eating disorders on the island of Fiji increased from 3% to 15% after the introduction of _______________ .

A) MSG
B) Coca Cola
C) Television
D) McDonald's

Question 7

How is masculinity itself a health risk?

A) Ideologies of masculinity have encouraged men to take up risky pursuits lest they be thought of as unmasculine.
B) Testosterone causes the fraying of telomeres, compound structures at the end of chromosomes.
C) The aggressiveness associated with masculinity releases the stress hormone cortisol into the bloodstream, which can cause disease.
D) By acting "masculine," men lose the opportunity for health-inducing pursuits such as dance and yoga.

Question 8

Out of the world's nearly 200 countries, where does the United States rank in life expectancy?

A) It is in the top 5 longest life expectancies.
B) It ranks 16^th in the world.
C) It ranks 31^st in the world.
D) It ranks 106^th in the world.

Question 9

When was abortion legalized in the United States?

A) 1880
B) 1939
C) 1973
D) 1980

Question 10

When did the Southern Poverty Law Center file a lawsuit to end federal funding of more than 100,000 sterilizations of poor women annually in the United States?

A) 1880
B) 1939
C) 1973
D) 1980

Question 11

What is epidemiology?

A) The science of public health which tracks life expectancy, disease transition rates, and the like.
B) The study of and medical practice dealing with the female reproductive system including menstruation and childbirth, and health and illness related to these
C) The study of life expectancy and causes of discrepancy related to this
D) The study of accidental deaths

Question 12

What is frigidity?

A) A diagnosis widely applied to women beginning in the 1800s which describes general unhappiness
B) A diagnosis widely applied to women the early-mid twentieth century characterized by inability to orgasm from penile-vaginal penetration or to enjoy this type of intercourse generally
C) Sterility in women
D) A diagnosis widely applied to wealthy housewives during the Industrial era characterized by unwillingness to get out of bed or leave the house.

Question 13

Which of the following ideas is attributed to researchers Masters and Johnson?

A) Childbirth is safest for women and babies if forceps are used.
B) Much of the difference between women's and men's life expectancies is attributable to men's risk-taking behavior.
C) Much of the difference between women's and men's life expectancies is attributable to biology.
D) Female orgasm is located in the clitoris, not the vagina.

Question 14

Which of the following groups reports the highest level of dissatisfaction with their bodily appearance?

A) Lesbian women
B) Heterosexual women
C) Gay men
D) Heterosexual men

Question 15

Which of the following is true regarding maternal mortality (death during or shortly after childbirth) in the United States?

A) Black women in the U.S. have a maternal mortality rate four times higher than white women.
B) Maternal mortality rates have increased in the U.S. over the past 30 years, while globally they have decreased.
C) The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world.
D) All of the above are true.

Question 16

Three dimensions are related to men's greater social risk of heart disease. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

A) Men are more likely to engage in "Type A" behavior, like competitiveness and anger.
B) Men are less likely to have rich social networks.
C) Men spend less time exercising than women.
D) Men are less likely to seek healthcare when they need it.

Question 17

Which nation consistently spends the most money on healthcare in terms of GDP per capita?

A) Canada
B) China
C) United States
D) Thailand

Question 18

The "global gag rule" is a law which prohibits healthcare workers from discussing ________ with patients receiving U.S. funded health services in countries around the globe.

A) abortion
B) HIV/AIDS
C) condoms and contraceptives
D) sex

Question 19

Which of the following is a popular global HIV/AIDS prevention protocol?

A) The "global gag rule"
B) ABC
C) IFM
D) HR 3590

Question 20

Critics of popular HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns which emphasize abstinence, condom use, and monogamy point out that these strategies are unrealistic for many women. How so?

A) Abstinence assumes that women have a choice when it comes to having sex, and many women do not.
B) Condom use is reliant upon men, and many women do not have power over this decision.
C) Monogamy requires cooperation from men and is ineffective if a partner is already HIV+.
D) All of the above.