Exam 2: Illness and Health Care

In Canada, the group most at risk for developing HIV/AIDS is men who have sex with other men.

An epidemiologist is concerned with the social origins and distributions of health problems in a population and how patterns of health and disease vary between and within societies.

According to the American Psychiatric Association, what are kleptomania and pathological lying classified as?

The most significant increases in infection rates for global HIV/AIDS are in the intravenous drug user category.

Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers 15 to 19.

According to the textbook, differences in rates of health problems and mortality are best explained by the strong association between education and what other factor?

Which of the following conditions, by definition, can last no longer than three months?

Perinatal transmission is the most common mode of HIV transmission in the world.

What was the leading cause of death worldwide in 1998?

What was the leading cause of death in Africa in 2000?

Which perspective explains the high cost of medical care by arguing that society must entice people into the medical profession by offering high salaries?

What is the type of statistic that identifies the total number of people in Canada currently living with AIDS?

If you have a real fear of spiders or snakes, you are probably suffering from which of the following?

According to the 1996-97 National Population Survey, slightly more than half of Canadians have dental insurance.

According to a Health Canada study done in 2002, what percentage of Canadians suffer from mental health problems?

In some sub-Saharan countries, the life expectancy at birth in the year 2000 was lower than it was in 1975.

Which of the following accounted for 12 percent of all disability-adjusted life years lost in 2001?

According to the textbook, patterns of health and disease are thought to be increasingly affected by which of the following factors?

There is a strong inverse relationship between career earnings and death rates for Canadian men.

In Canada, the cost of health care is generally shared between the provinces and which other party?