Med Sociology Exam 1

Which of the following have been significant factors in the most recent epidemiologic transition, which has seen a reemergence of infectious disease

- Globalization of trade and travel - human-made epilogical disturbances

Which of the following are true about health lifestyles

- include behaviors like smoking, drinking, alcohol consumption - influence whether and how severely one becomes ill - they can be positive or negative - influenced by one's social environment

approximately ____ % of the recorded deaths from Covid were people aged 65 and over

75%

in developing his concept of the sick role, Parsons linked his ideas to which two classical theorists

Durkheim and Weber

The so-called "clinical gaze" is best associated with which of the following perspectives?

Medicine of the species

What disease are part of the coronavirus family?

SARS, MERS, Covid-19, Common cold

What important event occurred in 1951 that began to reorient American medical sociology toward the use of theory

The publications of Parson's The Social System

What are the five classes

Upper Class Upper-middle class lower-middle class working class lower class

The World Health Organization defines health as

a state of complete, physical, mental, and social well being

Medica sociology as a subdiscipline began gaining strength:

after world war 2 with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for research

according to abdel omran, in which stage of the epidemiological transition are infectious diseases the major cause of death

age of prestige and famine

Which is NOT a major are of investigation in medical sociology: - Social factors of health and disease - social behavior of health car personnel and their patients - social functions of health organizations and institutions - the relationship of health care delivery systems to other systems - all the above are major areas

all above

Which of the following were indication of the heightened sense of individualism of the U.S. population, compared to Western Europe anyway in the societal response to the pandemic - compliance for lockdown orders was much less common in the US - early and consistent demonstrations against government lockdown orders - early and consistent demonstrations and protests against compulsory mask wearing in public - all the above

all the above

which of the following characterize the U.S response: - strong individual tendencies - political gridlock - lack of uniformity of response across state lines - all the above

all the above

germ theory provided a framework for understanding the casual agents of disease. What are the five agents?

biological, nutritional, chemical, physical, social

HIV/AIDS first appeared in intravenous drug users in New York and San Francisco (true or false)

false

The united states has a centralized public health system, unlike many countries in the western hemisphere (true/false)

false

Whereas Americans focus on a person's occupation in determining that individual's location in a class hierarchy, British sociologists use a broader measure (true or false)

false

anti vaccination groups consist primarily of poor whites with little education (true/false)

false

what is the effect of living in s disadvantaged neighborhood on people

high rates of depression

which of the following is true about incidence and prevalence

incidence for a given disease can be low at the same time that its prevalence is high

new research is showing that the relationship between occupation, income, education, and health changes over life course, with _____ becoming more important for health as a person moves toward older age

income

according to richard wilkinson which is most important variable influencing a country's overall level of health

income inequality in a country

in quantitative studies, what variables are used to measure socioeconomic statu

income, occupational prestige, education

Which is NOT a factor in the increasing emergence of epidemics

increase in public sanitation

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways societies contribute to the creation of pandemics? - human activity bringing wildfire habitat into contact with urban centers - cultural preferences for the wild game ' - government inaction in the face of warnings - industrial meat production

industrial meat production

zoonotic diseases:

infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans

Whose investigate into cholera outbreaks established the foundation of modern epidemiology

john snow

unlike infectious disease, chronic disease typically are ______ and _____

long term, incurable

The official death count from Covid-19 is ____ than the number of excess deaths reported by the CDC for the period from January 2020 through December 2021

lower

which term describes an individual's most important position in society and typically comes from one's occupation

master status

changes in lifestyle patterns over the past decades has meant that coronary heart disease is now concentrated more among which group

poor/lower class

the science of epidemiology has passed through three eras and is entering a fourth. what is the order of the three eras?

sanitary, infectious, chronic

The whitehall studies conducted in britain demonstrated that regardless of cause of death which group had the lowest rates of mortality

senior administrators

The National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) is typically used by

the british

which particular problem occurs with newly emerging diseases

they are often difficult to control in the early stages

The United States has the _____ highest death rate from Covid-19

third

developing nations are typically characterized by a high birth rate and a high death rate, with a relatively young population (true or false)

true

research finds that people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods suffer psychologically from their environment (true or false)

true

HIV/AID now affects _______ in Africa more than ______

women, men