Exam 2: Illness and Health Care

In Canada, when Aboriginal peoples are compared to non-Aboriginal peoples, what is the finding?

Which type of scientist studies the social origins and distribution of health problems in a population and how patterns of health and disease vary between and within societies?

What is the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) and why are people critical of it?

Between the years 2005 and 2010, every country in the world had an average life expectancy of at least 50 years.

Which theory focuses on how the lack of wealth, power, and status impacts on health?

Which of the following countries banned the use of all types of cell phones by drivers in 2009?

In Canada, higher rates of education are generally associated with which of the following?

What are the leading causes of death for both women and men in Canada?

Which theoretical view contributes to our understanding of how gender interacts with other social factors to make women, especially young women, vulnerable to HIV infection?

Regarding mental health, women are more likely to abuse drugs and have higher rates of personality disorders, whereas men are more likely to suffer from mood disorders such as depression and anxiety.

A stigma refers to any personal characteristic associated with social disgrace, rejection, or discrediting.

The second most common mode of HIV transmission worldwide is through tainted blood transfusions or blood products.

At each rung up the income ladder, Canadians have less sickness, longer life expectancy, and improved health.

In addition to socio-economic and political factors, which of the following did Markovic and colleagues (2005) find to be an important contributing factor that disadvantaged women's health and well-being?

High rates of maternal mortality are generally found in what type of country?

What is the predominant mode of HIV transmission worldwide?

Of all the health measures monitored by the World Health Organization, which has the largest discrepancy between developed and developing countries?

HIV infections and AIDS deaths in men outnumber those in women on every continent except sub-Saharan Africa.

In seven countries in southern Africa, at least 20 percent of the adult population is living with HIV.

In Canada, First Nations and Métis youth are more likely than non-Aboriginal youth to use all types of drugs.