Exam 19: Health and Medicine

Using a global perspective, explain how "avoidable" social causes can increase or decrease life expectancy.

Given what is known about illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) becoming included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM), which of the following often means the difference between inclusion and exclusion, over and above simple physical or mental symptomology?

Lionel is tired of the medical establishment telling him what to do and not taking his medical problems seriously.He has done his research and notices that one particular alternative approach is the most widely used in Canada to treat symptoms like his.What is Lionel engaging in?

Explain medicalization and utilize examples in your explanation.

Which of the following is NOT a measure utilized by sociologists when operationalizing the health of a population?

Sir Thomas Waldicott, a titled nobleman, was able to take actions to save himself and his immediate family from contracting the Black Plague.What did he most likely do?

Professionalization is the process by which members lose control of their occupation to other agencies.

Which of the following is most likely to intervene in issues such as drug addiction and alcoholism?

A middle-aged impoverished Aboriginal woman living beside a river, downstream from the oil sands of Fort McMurray, has asthma and osteoporosis.What theory would best describe this woman's risk of ailment?

According to the textbook, which of the following nations spends the largest proportion of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care?

Contrast health care costs in Canada with health care costs in the United States.

How many mental disorders were listed in the 1968 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (DSM-II)?

Currently, anxiety disorders affect approximately what percentage of the population?

What is the term for the shift from a society characterized by a low life expectancy and parasitic and infectious diseases to one characterized by high life expectancy and chronic and degenerative diseases?

What was the key factor that would have saved many lives during the Black Plague?

Benjamin's religion required him to honour the higher power by performing regular bodily cleansing rituals.Which religion prescribed these practices and saved many people from contracting the Black Plague?

Which of the following groups is most likely to report poor health in Canada?

When and where was the Canadian Medical Association founded?

Shauna woke up feeling unwell and called in to work to ask for the day off.According to Talcott Parsons, what are her actions compatible with?

Canada is one of the few countries in the world with a true system of socialized medicine.