Exam 14: Prioritizing Health and Health Care Inequalities

What organization is a charity that primarily operates to make the lives of patients better?

Define discriminatory medical practice and provide an example of one.

Which statement is true about the experience of the Black middle class in the United States?

Men are more likely to die in part because of risker behaviors associated with gendered expectations.

Explain the future of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 in political context.

Durkheim's work Suicide examined the impact of culture and society on the health of the population. This study can be categorized in the genre of ______.

Using the example of cholera and poverty, explain how society blamed the individual for illness.

The geographic area of urban and rural populations called ______ are areas with a high-density of fast food and junk food selling outlets.

Medical professionals are more likely to overestimate the pain of Black patients than the pain of White patients.

Which preventable social condition leads to deaths in a heat wave in Chicago in 1995?

Define Medicaid and Medicare.

People from low socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to frequent emergency rooms for health care.

What organization is a charity to raise funds for research for assisting families of children suffering from cancer?

Women are more likely to seek out medical care than men.

People from lower incomes tend to consume food with refined grains and added fats while those from higher socioeconomic status are more likely to eat foods with whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables.

Physicians do not readily acknowledge all illnesses.

The Affordable Care Act reduced racial and ethnic inequality in health care coverage.

Under the ______ administration, the Affordable Care Act mandate was eliminated for individuals without coverage resulting in the number of uninsured rising again.

Explain how homosexuality was demedicalized by the psychiatric community.

Social epidemiologists can sum up gendered differences in health care by saying "Women get sicker, but men die quicker."