Question 1

Death by suicide is four times more likely among _________ than among _________.

Accepted Answer

A)   people of color, white people
B)   white people, people of color
C)   men, women
D)   women, men C

Question 2

The study of how genes function in the biological system is called

Accepted Answer

A)   eugenics
B)   epigenetics
C)   genetics
D)   health demography C

Question 3

Efforts to keep the entire population healthy are termed

Accepted Answer

A)   public health
B)   epidemiology
C)   palliative care
D)   national healthcare A

Question 4

A doctor who adopts an intersectional health perspective will

Accepted Answer

A)   treat each element of a patient's identity-such as their race, sex and gender, religion, etc.-as distinctly different things to be addressed and will not consider how they influence each other
B)   reject the use of all Western remedies and instead use only complementary and alternative medicine
C)   give attention to the concrete, historical contexts and actual lived experiences of the kinds of people they serve
D)   only see patients who are willing to make lifestyle changes to manage their illnesses

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a medical risk?

Accepted Answer

A)   Having a parent who died in war
B)   Having a parent who died of breast cancer
C)   Having a parent who died of cancer of the throat caused by chewing tobacco
D)   Having a parent who died in an auto accident

Question 6

In sociological terms, what is the difference between disease and the illness experience?

Accepted Answer

A)   The illness experience is irreversible and incurable and can only be managed, but diseases are short term and typically result in a full recovery.
B)   Disease is irreversible and incurable and can only be managed, but the illness experience is short term and typically results in a full recovery.
C)   Disease happens within the physical body, but the illness experience is the way that physical reality is understood and managed by the people experiencing it.
D)   The illness experience happens within the physical body, but disease is the way that physical reality is understood and managed by the people experiencing it.

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a common reason why people reject the sick role?

Accepted Answer

A)   They use home remedies because they rely on tradition more than medical authority.
B)   They wish to remain ill or see their condition worsen.
C)   They are suspicious of mainstream medical advice.
D)   They fear being mistreated by doctors and so aggressively advocate for treatments of their own choosing.

Question 8

Public health policy consists of

Accepted Answer

A)   taxpayer spending to prevent the spread of communicable diseases
B)   publicly funded research on hard-to-treat diseases
C)   medical experimentation on prisoners in order to test new and promising treatments for diseases
D)   the norms, rules, and laws that shape public health behavior

Question 9

WHO is an acronym that stands for

Accepted Answer

A)   Wealth and Health Outcomes
B)   Women's Health Options
C)   Worldwide Health Opportunities
D)   World Health Organization

Question 10

Epidemiology studies

Accepted Answer

A)   how to communicate health information to the public effectively
B)   the reasons why people resist acting in their own best health interests
C)   the biological evolution of the germs that cause diseases to become resistant to known treatments
D)   the social dimensions of disease patterns to discover how diseases spread

Question 11

The DSM-V

Accepted Answer

A)   describes those mental illnesses with their origins in brain chemistry and structure, such as schizophrenia, but not in individual experiences, such as post-traumatic stress disorder
B)   is not subject to revision
C)   is the product of the pharmaceutical industry
D)   defines a variety of mental disorders

Question 12

According to Paul Starr's analysis in The Transformation of American Medicine ([1987] 2017), the American Medical Association is

Accepted Answer

A)   an advocacy group for doctors who utilize complementary and alternative medicine rather than conventional medicine
B)   a legal defense fund for doctors defending themselves from malpractice charges
C)   a fraternal organization promoting camaraderie among physicians and the development of rituals that signal group membership
D)   a lobbying group that seeks to restrict the practice of medicine to its stakeholders and prevent potential competitors from encroaching on its markets

Question 13

Health demography is the study of the

Accepted Answer

A)   distribution of disease in a population
B)   birth rate of different groups in a society
C)   percentage of a population that refuses to use conventional medicine
D)   effectiveness of experimental medical treatments to treat diseases

Question 14

Efforts to prevent disease, promote healthy behaviors, and pre-empt unhealthy ones through teaching are called

Accepted Answer

A)   public health education
B)   epidemiology
C)   health demography
D)   palliative care

Question 15

When what was previously considered an inconvenience, a normal variation of human biology, an individual quirk, or a social problem is redefined as a medical problem, it has undergone the process of

Accepted Answer

A)   institutionalization
B)   professionalization
C)   medicalization
D)   marginalization

Question 16

In the medical model, a disability is

Accepted Answer

A)   physical or mental defects located in the individual
B)   a way that a body deviates from a set standard ("norm")  of what a society calls healthy
C)   a way to define a body so that the person with this body can use health insurance to receive healthcare
D)   a difference in bodily function that cannot be compensated with affordable and widely available technology, such as eyeglasses

Question 17

Which of the following is not an example of complementary and alternative medicine?

Accepted Answer

A)   A bypass surgery to allow blood to flow to the heart
B)   Yoga
C)   Acupuncture
D)   Bio

Question 18

Demand for organ donation is

Accepted Answer

A)   higher than the availability of donated organs
B)   lower than the availability of donated organs
C)   about the same as the availability of donated organs
D)   sometimes higher and sometimes lower than the availability of donated organs, depending on the time of year

Question 19

The WHO considers the likelihood of future epidemics and pandemics to be

Accepted Answer

A)   virtually non-existent
B)   relatively low
C)   moderate
D)   very high

Question 20

While the medical model of disability sees certain bodies as defective, a sociological model

Accepted Answer

A)   argues that social, economic, and environmental factors-like whether a society makes it possible for people who use wheelchairs to be mobile in the public sphere-are part of the creation of a disability
B)   ignores bodily differences because calling attention to them is hurtful
C)   says that medicine could "fix" all disabilities if only all people had access to it
D)   desires to end the disability through genetic testing and abortion

Exam 12: Health, Illness, and Medicine

Death by suicide is four times more likely among _ than among _.