Exam 13: Health

The tendency for a slave to run away from his or her master was known as ______.

The disorder that involves obsessive and compulsive skin picking is diagnosed as ______.

______ is characterized by inattention and hyperactivity and impulsivity.

Countries with relatively minor differences between their richest and poorest are the healthiest.

The belief that the health-care industry has four interrelated economic functions in capitalist society (accumulation of capital,provision of investment opportunities,absorption of surplus labor,and maintenance of the labor force)is most closely associated with the ______ perspective.

Compared to men,women are more likely to do all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Racism affects nondominant racial populations directly in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______ racism.

The stress of working conditions that combine low autonomy and high workloads in an unsupportive environment has been shown to cause up to ______ of cardiovascular mortality in the United States.

Talcott Parsons's theory of "the sick role" is most closely associated with ______.

Contemporary ______ theorists argue that increased concentration of population and improved communication will revitalize the idea of common good and alleviate social conflict.

The term attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)did not emerge in the United States until the ______.

Women are diagnosed as suffering from more ill-health than men.

Julia primarily identifies herself as a "cancer patient," even though she has been treated successfully.Sociologists might say Julia is suffering from ______.

The Gini coefficient is an index measuring the level of ______ in a society.

The United States operates under a ______ system of governance,with a health-care sector dominated by private rather than government interests.

______ occurs when individuals identify themselves as their disease.

The ______is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.

The consistent finding that inequality and health are related,with those at the top of the social system being healthier,is known as ______.

Discuss Pierre Bourdieu's (1984)theory of the relationship of the body to class position in society.

The ______ is a large and growing network of private corporations engaged in the business of supplying health-care services to patients for profit-services that used to be provided by government,nonprofit institutions,or individual practitioners.