Exam 2 HLTH 236

What age group is in more danger of disorder eating and depression as a result of body image:

15-25 years (maybe 10-25)

According to Figure 1 in LaVeist (1993), in what year did the Black infant mortality rate fall under 50 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.

1950

American Indian and Alaska Native are _____ more likely to have diabetes than general US population.

2.3X

Personally mediated racism can be defined with the help of all of the following concepts, except:

Acceptance

All of the following are culturally related beliefs and values Asian Pacific Islanders share EXCEPT

All of the answer choices are correct

A major health risk associated with American Indian and Alaska Natives are:

All of these are major health risks

All of the following are leading causes of death for API males EXCEPT:

Alzheimer's disease

BRCA1 is correlated to which type of disease among Caucasian/White individuals:

Breast Cancer

The _____________ was developed to oversee health care for the American Indian population.

Bureau of Indian Affairs

The leading cause of death among Asian or Pacific Islanders (API) Americans is:

Cancer

Hypertension and high cholesterol are the most urgent health problems found among what population(s):

Chinese and Filipino

Which of the following is not among the top five leading causes of deaths for Caucasian/White males?

Diabetes

Underutilization of health care by Asian Pacific Islanders is usually caused by various cultural factors such as:

Different attitudes towards suffering and the belief that life is predetermined

The Foreign Miners tax did all of the following except:

Excluded rights to native Americans

American Indian and Alaska Natives generally have a lower death rate compared to other racial/ethnic group.

False

As of 2012, racism does not exist within our nation:

False

Asian Pacific Islanders have lower prevalence of mental health problems.

False

Race is a completely accurate way to representation of socioeconomic status, culture, and genes.

False

Which factor is not associated with health care utilization and access when referring to Hispanic/Latinos?

Family History

Ethnicity involves all of the following, except:

Genes

Acculturation can be describe as all of the following processes, except:

Global

In the example given in the Camara (2000) article, the gardener of the flowering pots would be considered who:

Government

Infant mortality rate is an health indicator of all of the following except:

Health status of the elderly

Which of the following is a behavioral cause of death?

Homicide

Much of what is known about mental health comes from ____________.

Hospitals

American Indian and Alaska Native tend to have:

Income below the federal poverty level and High unemployment rate

All of the following are American Indian and Alaska Native group specific health problems EXCEPT:

Influenza and Pneumonia

Which of the following is considered the first explicit commitment by the government to achieve equity in health outcomes:

Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities

Accepting limitations to ones own full humanity, including ones spectrum of dreams defines which of the following:

Internalized racism

Research shows that _____ acculturation leads to better health effects.

Less

The major conceptual basis used for identification of Latinos, being political and geographic, was pronounced in which article:

Monroe Doctrine 1823

According to Baker (2011), acculturation is ____________, rather than _____________ and may include the formation of new unique cultures.

Multidirectional; unidirectional

The term Latino should be used to recognize ________.

Nationality

The US Census has how many subcategories for Whites:

None

All of the following are goals of doing minority health research except:

Predict

The term Indians not taxed was replaced by which social classification:

Red

Which of the following is the preferred terminology:

Reference

According to the lecture, high infant mortality rates among the African American population could be attributed to:

Segregation

The avoidance of integration into the new society is the definition for which term:

Separatism

Income and education are stressors associated to which type of factor:

Socio-demographic

Examples of material conditions when referring to institutionalized racism include which of the following:

Sound housing

The majority of the African American population lives in which region of the US.

Southern

What is a leading cause of death that is found in male American Indian Alaska Natives but not in females?

Suicide

What leading cause of death is seen in API males but not API females

Suicide

Street crossing, purse clutching, and shopkeepers vigilance are all examples of which of the following:

Suspicion

A major research issue is whether the process of acculturation is detrimental to the health of immigrants or whether it is protective

True

According to the lecture, the Caucasian/White population is decreasing as compared to other races/ethnicities.

True

Diabetes is highly prevalent among API populations.

True

Institutionalized racism manifests itself both in material conditions and in access to power.

True

Nearly 31% of Hispanics/Latinos do not have a usual source of healthcare.

True

One of the most limiting issues is that data systems within healthcare settings do not code patient's race.

True

Race is defined as a biological category that labels different groups according to a set of common inborn biological markers.

True

Black infant mortality rates are higher in cities where blacks have gained a measure of political empowerment.

false

There are more African Americans in the US when compared to other groups.

false

What is not a weakness of the term Caucasian?

imprecise

According to the 2010 Census, there are more than 3 million American Indian and Alaska Natives.

true

Historically, the American Indian/Alaskan Native population has experienced extreme health problems because they had little or no immunity to the diseases brought by the Europeans.

true

Since the United States began collecting race-specific data, the black infant mortality rate has consistently been reported to be double the White rate:

true

The percentage of African American population does not correlate to incidence of various diseases.

true

Body dissatisfaction in Caucasian/White group is more common among which demographic group:

young men