Exam 13: Health

White coats and stethoscopes are examples of ______,which often help to increase patient trust in doctors.

All of the following are criticisms of advertising prescription drugs directly to consumers EXCEPT that it ______.

Medicalization is the definition and treatment of social issues as medical problems.

Sociologists would consider all of the following flawed assumptions about health EXCEPT ______.

Nearly ______ of school-age children have received a medical diagnosis of ADHD.

______ is characterized by prolonged periods of sadness and feelings of worthlessness and has been strongly linked to lower levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin within the brain.

Before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,______ million people in the United States did not have any form of health insurance.

What are the three flawed assumptions about health? What are the two common features to these assumptions?

Some sociological theorists argue that medicine has gone beyond its functional role of enhancing health and instead is used as a form of ______.

Indigenous Australian women are ______ times more likely to die from cervical cancer than non-Indigenous women.

Age at death and cause of death are not related to social class.

Over 25% of school-age children have received a medical diagnosis of ADHD.

Health care in ______ states has traditionally been provided by the government.

______ groups are social groups that are either negatively or positively privileged.

Talcott Parsons argued that people adopt the "sick role" as a way of ______.