Exam 11: Health and Medicine

According to the text, which of the following poses a recent challenge to the authority of traditional medical science?

Which of the following wealthy countries' governments pays the highest percentage of that country's total health costs?

Social isolation affects one's chance of becoming ill and dying prematurely. What type of social cause of illness and death is this?

Briefly describe the three types of social causes of illness and death.

Tommy Douglas, the founder of the party that became the NDP, is widely known as "the father of medicare."

Daria is fascinated and obsessed with death. She is determined to live as long as she possibly can. In which country should she live in order be among the people on earth with the highest life expectancy?

Even though it is often referred to as a system of socialized medicine, in Canada most doctors are not paid directly by the government. Instead they operate as independent practitioners who are paid on a fee-for-service basis.

Which of the following does the textbook identify as a particularly significant problem among elderly people who retire, lose a spouse and/or friends, and cannot rely on family members or state institutions for social support?

What do we learn from the story of the Black Death as far as the sociology of health and medicine is concerned?

Which of the following is associated with high rates of tobacco and alcohol consumption?

Shauna woke up feeling unwell and called in to work to ask for the day off. According to Talcott Parsons, what are her actions compatible with?

Bernadette had to go back three times to her specialist. He had prescribed a medication that the research he consulted recommended. She had recurring symptoms that she was sure were caused by the new medication, but her physician insisted that this was unlikely. According to the textbook, which of the following possible explanations is more likely because Bernadette is a woman rather than a man?

Why were the wealthy able to avoid the plague in Europe?

In Canada, despite the system of universal health care, which of the following continues to influence many aspects of health and illness?

Dr. Leclair works in a hospital. Which of the following terms do sociologists use to describe the system Dr. Leclair is part of?

Which of the following groups is most likely to report poor health in Canada?

Americans spend nearly twice as much per person on health care as Japan, and nearly 60 percent more than Canada, yet Americans are not as healthy as the Japanese or Canadians. Why is this?

Talcott Parsons defined the sick role. To qualify for the sick role, illness must be seen as not deliberate; also, the sick person must want to get well, as evidenced by that person's seeking out the help of competent practitioners.

What are some of the ways that health inequality manifests itself in Canada?

Which of the following is the form of alternative medicine most widely used by Canadians today?