Deck 12: Integration and Implications

Question 1

Given the insights derived from psychoneuroimmunology, healthcare should

A) avoid evolutionary thinking
B) use highly targeted pharmacological interventions
C) rely less on holistic thinking
D) none of the above

Answer 1

none of the above

Question 2

The observation that schizophrenia appears to have a better long-term outcome in countries where pharmacological treatments are less available is an example of the

A) impact of exposure
B) problem with science
C) differences in diagnostic systems
D) impact of genetics

Answer 2

impact of exposure

Question 3

A solution to escalating healthcare costs would involve

A) creating more competition
B) removing the profit motive from healthcare
C) increaisng oversight by insurance companies and government regulators
D) more sophisticated business plans

Answer 3

removing the profit motive from healthcare

Question 4

The concept of an organismic microenvironment

A) has a precise definition
B) allows one to reduce complexity
C) simplifies our understanding of disease
D) emerges from psychoneuroimmunological insights

Question 5

Which of the following statements is false

A) the most precise sciences deal with inanimate objects
B) scientific methodology is not without limitations
C) reductionistic science is sufficient to establish the causes of disease
D) systems that adapt and evolve are difficult to predict

Question 6

The assertion that disease begins within organismic microenvironments

A) applies only to cancer
B) is meaningless with respect to infectious diseases
C) underscores the localized beginning of pathological change
D) all of the above

Question 7

In the near future characterization of an individual's genetic profile will

A) permit precise prediction individual health at any given age
B) help to quantify the impact of exposure with respect to health
C) specify the functioning of all organs that sustain health
D) make knowledge of exposure irrelevant to predicting health

Question 8

Health education should

A) discount the patient's belief system
B) begin ealy in life
C) emphasize the use of medicines to prevent disease
D) avoid discussion of natural healing

Question 9

Doctor-patient communication is complicated by

A) productivity demands
B) malpractice concerns
C) nocebo effects
D) all of the above

Question 10

The disease promoting influence of a given variable

A) depends on which other variables are in the mix
B) is constant across contexts
C) is an intrinsic property of the variable
D) none of the above

Question 11

Tracking individuals in health state space can be used to discover factors that

A) increase the probaility of disease
B) hinder the response to treatment efforts
C) help sustain good health
D) all of the above

Question 12

A given variable capable of having an impact on health is best viewed as

A) necessary but not sufficient
B) unnecessary and insufficient
C) sufficient but not necessary
D) necessary and sufficient