Exam 14: Health and Illness

________ occurs when our individual, genetic, and physiological illness and disease risks are worsened by social factors like the neighborhood where we live, inequality, and corporate and governmental policies and practices?

Health and illness are impacted by social class, race, and gender inequality.

A/An ________ is an epidemic that spans across national borders, across continents, or around the world.

The Hmong people are an ethnic group native to the mountainous regions of mainland Southeast Asia. What is the traditional Hmong understanding of epileptic seizures?

C. Wright Mills used the term "sociological imagination" to refer to important interconnections between personal troubles and public issues. What would he have said about deprivation amplification?

What environmental factor have epidemiologists found increases the spread of diseases via vector organisms?

The more strongly men identify with stereotypical ideas about masculinity, the more likely they are to

________ health care makes ill patients more comfortable and prepares them for the end of life.

Shortly before Josefina's grandmother passed away, her family gathered to make some decisions about how best to take care of her. The family members eventually decided to bring Josefina's grandmother home from the hospital and take care of her where she would be most comfortable. Describe the three approaches to medical treatment and identify the approach that best describes Josefina's family's actions.

More than half of American women gave birth at home in the early 1900s, while around 99 percent of all births take place in hospitals today. This is an example of

Many health inequities that people of lower socioeconomic status experience are worsened in ________ groups.

Siobhan recently learned that he has a mental illness. Since her diagnosis, she has begun to act according to the illness and in ways that she thinks others expect someone with a mental illness to act. Which theory of health and illness best explains her situation?

Is medicine in the United States a social institution?

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has recommended changes regarding cultural competence as well as ways in which these changes can be evaluated.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was not recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in the form we now know it until 1987, despite the fact that children exhibited the same symptoms of ADHD before 1987. What sociological concept does this highlight?

Television programs in the United States emphasize the cultural belief that having a slim body is more highly valued than having a heavier body. How is this perspective an example of the nature of health being defined by its social rather than biological context?

What is the name of the association that conducts large-scale research projects on college student populations with the goals of addressing student health issues and providing support programs and services for them?

You are an American with a lower socioeconomic status. You are also a racial minority living in public housing and working a physically demanding job to financially support a family of four. It is likely that you

________ is the type of care we are practicing when we focus on making a person comfortable at the end of life.

Good health is