Deck 17: The Social Determinants of Health and Illness

Question 1

Who has defined health as 'a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity'?

A) The World Health Organization
B) The Australian Sociological Association
C) The Australian Bureau of Statistics
D) The American Medical Association

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of these is NOT considered a social determinant of health?

A) Differences in health status between rich and poor
B) Differences in health status between men and women
C) Differences in health status between Indigenous and non-indigenous people
D) The effects of genetics on health status

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is the global average life expectancy at birth?

A) 50 years
B) 60 years
C) 70 years
D) 80 years

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following statements best describes the biomedical model of illness?

A) The use of only biological interventions to treat illness
B) A health system dominated by health professionals
C) A view of illness as a malfunctioning of the biological mechanisms of the body
D) The combination of environmental and psychological interventions to treat illness

Question 5

According to Wilkinson, what countries have the best health?

A) The richest
B) The poorest
C) The most egalitarian
D) The most pacifistic

Question 6

Who was one of the first to point out the processes of medical dominance?

A) Karl Marx
B) Dr John Snow
C) Eliot Freidson
D) Michael Marmot

Question 7

Which of these belongs to the main dimensions of the social model of health, as highlighted by John Germov?

A) The social production and distribution of health and illness
B) The social construction of health and illness
C) The social organisation of healthcare
D) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following statements is an example of the social model of health?

A) The role of living and working conditions in affecting health
B) The role of individual pathology and genetics in affecting the social distribution of illness
C) The role of individual behaviour and associated risk factors
D) The role of a person's own responsibility for their health

Question 9

Which famous study was responsible for identifying the social gradient in health?

A) The Whitehall studies
B) The Social Health studies
C) The Relative Income studies
D) The Wittenoom studies

Question 10

The term 'health literacy' describes what?

A) The ease with which a doctor's handwriting can be deciphered
B) The extent to which people understand information about health issues
C) The extent to which health problems are related to illiteracy
D) None of the above