Deck 21: C: Health and Medicine

Question 1

In Western Europe and North America,scientists began to understand the causes of infectious diseases at about what point in history?

A)1700
B)1775
C)1850
D)1950

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Following the social-conflict approach,patterns of health and illness are seen largely as a product of:

A)technology.
B)how people define the situation they experience.
C)how culture defines health and illness.
D)social inequality.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Describe the shortage of nurses in North America.What are several reasons for this shortage?

Answer 3

no answer

Question 4

Which sexually transmitted disease infects 45 million U.S.adults (about one in five)?

A)syphilis
B)genital herpes
C)gonorrhea
D)AIDS

Question 5

Eating disorders have much to do with how our society defines femininity.

Question 6

In much of the world,illness and poverty form a vicious circle,with each increasing the other.

Question 7

Which of the following diseases is the biggest killer in today's high-income nations?

A)heart disease
B)influenza
C)pneumonia
D)cholera

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of a chronic illness?

A)influenza
B)cancer
C)accidents
D)pneumonia

Question 9

Talcott Parsons described the physician-patient relationship as which of the following?

A)permanent
B)egalitarian
C)unpleasant
D)hierarchical

Question 10

In the world's poorest nations today,most people die before reaching:

A)the age of twenty.
B)the age of thirty.
C)the age of fifty.
D)the age of seventy.