Exam 2: Thinking About Individual and Population Health

A recent high-quality study of reported differences among-and between-Canadians and Americans shows that health inequalities are mostly attributable to ________.

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Sex is one of the host characteristics that is commonly used in the risk factors model. What are the problems associated with using sex as a predictor of one's health status?

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Problems associated with using sex as a predictor of one's health status include the following:
$\bullet$ Biologic sex is a spectrum, not binary.
$\bullet$ Health differenences between men and women are overstated.
$\bullet$ Sex is confounded with gender; many health differences are gender-, not sex-related, and gender roles vary by time and place. Therefore, sex and gender need to both be considered. (pp. 21-22)

What are some the ways sex and gender affect health of Canadians?

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The answer should make it clear that sex and gender are associated with behaviour and social expectations, roles, and responsibilities. It is the complex interaction of the physiological and social variables that produces most of the observed differences in incidence of accidents, disease, disability, and premature mortality (pp. 21-22).

Crude death rates are calculated by ________.

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Question 4

The study of the social patterning of behaviour suggests that our behaviour ________.

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Question 5

In epidemiology, a secular change ________.

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Question 6

What is wrong with the idea that disease is caused by behaviour combined with genetic susceptibility?

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Question 7

The different levels of analysis discussed in your textbook in reference to health refer to ________ levels.

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Question 8

The findings from the field of epigenetics suggest that ________.

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Question 9

The following statement regarding prevalence is TRUE: ________.

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Question 10

What is the predictive capacity of genetics in the risk factors model?

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Question 11

The works of McKeown showed that ________.

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Question 12

Overall, risk factors at the individual level account for only a small proportion of the incidence of disease.

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Question 13

The individual-level model of health and disease is generally referred to as risk factors model.

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Question 14

The epidemiological transition is said to occur when societies reach a level of affluence equivalent roughly to $6,000-$10,000 per capita income.

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Question 15

Thomas McKeown's (1976) research showed that the sharp decline in mortality in western Europe after 1850 was due to changing social and environmental factors, notably the availability and affordability of better diet.

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Question 16

The first phase in the demographic transition is characterized by ________.

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Question 17

An individual's genetics are the only accurate predictor of one's health status.

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Question 18

The text identifies ________ as the two modern figures that are closely associated with the revival of a population-health perspective.

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Question 19

Friedrich Engels's 1844 data on the working people of Manchester showed that the ________.

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A recent high-quality study of reported differences among-and between-Canadians and Americans shows that health inequalities are mostly attributable to ________.

Sex is one of the host characteristics that is commonly used in the risk factors model. What are the problems associated with using sex as a predictor of one's health status?

What are some the ways sex and gender affect health of Canadians?

Crude death rates are calculated by ________.

The study of the social patterning of behaviour suggests that our behaviour ________.

In epidemiology, a secular change ________.

What is wrong with the idea that disease is caused by behaviour combined with genetic susceptibility?

The different levels of analysis discussed in your textbook in reference to health refer to ________ levels.

The findings from the field of epigenetics suggest that ________.

The following statement regarding prevalence is TRUE: ________.

What is the predictive capacity of genetics in the risk factors model?

The works of McKeown showed that ________.

Overall, risk factors at the individual level account for only a small proportion of the incidence of disease.

The individual-level model of health and disease is generally referred to as risk factors model.

The epidemiological transition is said to occur when societies reach a level of affluence equivalent roughly to $6,000-$10,000 per capita income.

Thomas McKeown's (1976) research showed that the sharp decline in mortality in western Europe after 1850 was due to changing social and environmental factors, notably the availability and affordability of better diet.

The first phase in the demographic transition is characterized by ________.

An individual's genetics are the only accurate predictor of one's health status.

The text identifies ________ as the two modern figures that are closely associated with the revival of a population-health perspective.

Friedrich Engels's 1844 data on the working people of Manchester showed that the ________.

Introduction: The Conventional Understanding of Health and Its Alternative

Health Care Services and Health Research Methods New

Population Health and Social Epidemiology

Income, Inequality, and Health

Childhood and the Transition to Adulthood

Gender and Health

Social Support, Social Capital, Social Exclusion, and Racism

Health of Indigenous Peoples

Employment, Working Conditions, and Health

Housing and Neighbourhood

Food, Food Insecurity, Nutrition, Obesity, and Health

The Environment and Health New

Social Patterning of Behaviour

The Politics of Population Health

Understanding Social Determinants of Health

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