Medical Sociology exam 1
In Rosenstock's model, what would be an example of an external trigger?
alcohol, drugs
What federal program provides health insurance to those 65 years and older?
Medicaid
By 2050 it is projected that ____%of all Americans will be 65 and older
20
Woman's reproductive role accounts for less than ____percent of all doctor visits.
20
Today, women outlive men by how many years?
5
In 2004, the average infant in the U.S. could be expected to live for ____years.
78
How does the neighborhood you live in produce good or poor health?
Access to resources
Which stage of Suchman's concept of the illness experience requires decision-making by the sick person?
All of them
What is the most prevalent health problem of persons over the age of 65?
Arthritis
For all causes of death,______have the lowest death rates. (which race/ethnicity)
Asian, pacific islanders
What does CDC stand for?
Center for Disease Control
Brenner's thesis is that there are few areas of our lives not intimately affected by the state of the ____.
Economy
Which SES factor is the strongest single predictor of good health? (income, education ,wealth, occupation, neighborhood)
Education
Be familiar with the different types of suicide (according to Durkheim)
Egoistic, Altruistic, Anomic, Fatalistic
AIDS potentially entered the United States through what country
Haiti
What is the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than one-third of all deaths?
Heart Disease
How is AIDS primarily transmitted in Africa?
Heterosexual
Which group has the highest percentage of persons without health insurance?
Hispanics, mexicans
Who are exposed to more violence in their daily lives and find themselves in situation where stress, inadequate diets and housing, and less opportunity for quality health care are common?
Lower Class, Poor
Which social class visits physicians the most?
Lower class
_____babies die more often that _____babies.
Male, Female
The work of what two scholars linked the poor health of the English working class to capitalism in a treatise published in 1845?
Martin Angles
How does the World Health Organization define health?
Mental, Physical and social
What caused the prevalence of STDs to soar around the globe?
Migrant Work, Birth control and sexual liberation
The ______in sub-Saharan Africa plays a particularly important role in the transmission of AIDS.
Migrant work
For all causes of death________have the highest death rates. (which race/ethnicity)
Non hispanic blacks
Results have shown that the equalization of health care alone has _____the disparity in health between social classes
Not reduced
The epidemiologist studies both the _____and ______of health problems in a population
Origin and disruption
Who suggests two major types of stress are: life events and chronic strains?
Parlind
Which scholar initially provided a theoretical approach for medical sociology?
Parsons
A major factor causing the infant mortality differences between blacks and whites is ______.
Poverty
One of the greatest threats worldwide, from infectious diseases, comes from what?
STD
What order did the first three epidemiological eras appear?
Sanitary chronic
What important concept did Talcott Parsons's book The Social System contain?
Sick Rule
Several studies find that the strongest and most consistent predictor of a person's health and life expectancy is_____.
Social Class, Ses
Putman defines _____as a community-level resource reflected in social relationships involving networks, but also norms, and levels of trust
Social cap
Compared to women, men usually have substantial health inferiority in terms of life expectancy because of the combination of two major effects: biological and ______effects.
Social psychological
People who become infected with HIV may be subjected to discrimination which can isolate them socially. What is this social outcome called?
Stigma
Social status is a _____dimension in "social class" consisting of how much esteem the person is accorded by other people?
Subjective
Where is equality in living conditions among the best in the world?
Sweden
In which study were syphilis patients intentionally not treated and allowed to die?
Tuskegee study, syphillis study
Weber maintains that life_____influence life conduct/life choices.
chances
The interaction between life choices and life chances produces _____toward particular forms of action. These constitute a "habitus" according to Bourdieu.
disposition
According to the World Health Organization, significant improvements in health in the nineteenth century were brought about by what might be called _____methods.
engineering
What is the most dangerous job in the United States?
fisherman
Medical sociologists divide health-oriented behavior into two general categories: _____behavior and ____behavior.
health and illness
____is the leading cause of death for women after age 66.
heart disease
What minority group is most likely to use hospital emergency rooms as their primary source of medical services?
hispanic
The theory of the _______maintains that our self-concepts are the result of social interaction in which we see ourselves reflected in other people
looking glass self
Which social class visits doctors the least?
middle class
Health lifestyles activities typically take place_____the health care delivery system.
outside
According to the World Health Organization, we are currently living in the _____era.
post medical
What is the most common response to symptoms of illness by people throughout the world?
self care