Multicultural Exam 2
Which of the following is NOT one of the tips that was given by your text for working with someone who has low literacy?
Use exaggerated hand gestures and facial expressions to emphasize important points
In most religions, a person can be excused from the religious practice of fasting if
a person has an underlying, or associated, condition that would make it dangerous to their health
In the United States, socioeconomic status has traditionally been measured by:
education and income
The affordable care act used all of these methods to improve access to care except:
expansion of medicare
According to your text, basing new public health promotion efforts on the identification and documentation of programs and policy changes that have been proven to be effective, as well as those that do not work, is an area of research referred to as
government oversight
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A person may be spiritual without being religious
Non-conventional health care practices of an individual that are used in place of conventional medicine are referred to as
Alternative Medicine
A key characteristic of Multicultural Evaluation, that distinguishes it from Traditional Evaluation, in the design and planning stage is
Community stakeholders are engaged in an inclusive process that infuses multiple worldviews
A patient visits her doctor to receive care for chronic indigestion. Her doctor prescribes medications that she can use, as needed. She is already taking herbs that a traditional healer told her would help. She does not tell her doctor about the herbs, but continues to take them, along with the medicine prescribed by the doctor. This treatment plan represents
Complementary Medicine
According to the text, considering multicultural evaluation as a continuum, the purposeful design and implementation of evaluations that honor cultural context is referred to, on the continuum, as
Cultural proficiency
The Eqyptian practice of building large burial spaces (pyramids) and filling them with a variety of objects that held special meaning for the deceased, illustrates that the Egyptians held what belief regarding death?
Death was viewed as transition to another life, the objects were for use in the next life
An ethnic healer develops a concoction of herbs and offers it to his patients, telling them that it will work as a vaccination to prevent COVID-19. For this specific action, the healer could be charged with
Distribution of an illegal drug
A patient visits her doctor to receive care for anxiety disorder. Her doctor develops a treatment plan that incorporates yoga and meditation along with prescription medications that can be taken whenever she feels she needs them. This treatment plan represents
integrative medicine
In regard to health care rituals of patients, specific objects - such as crosses, rabbit's feet, amulets, etc. - are most typically used to
invoke or ensure protection and healing
Considering the contributions of health communication to health promotion and prevention, the impact of the emergence of community-centered prevention efforts offers a number of benefits. Which of the following is NOT one of the benefits of this approach?
it improves group interactions in clinical settings
Which of the following is the organization, started in the mid 1990's, that was developed with the mission to evaluate and certify health related web sites, in order to assure consumers that they were accessing valid, reliable health information on the world wide web?
HON Code
A hospital is located in a community that is comprised of over 30% of people who are Chinese immigrants. The hospital makes a conscious effort to recruit and hire health care providers of Chinese descent. This illustrates which of the six "strategies for eliminating or reducing health disparities," as presented by your text?
Improving quality of care
The policies regarding improving language appropriate services for those who need them falls within which of the five strategies, recommended by the text, for eliminating health disparities
Improving quality of care
A public health coalition in a relatively poor and predominantly minority ethnic community mobilizes community members to serve as tutors in the elementary school and subsidizes a weekly farmer's market in a local park. Such efforts would exemplify which one of the six strategies, listed by your text, for reducing or eliminating health disparities?
Improving the environments of people affected by health disparities.
Generally, research supports the finding that religious involvement is associated with less suicidal behavior and ideation. However, the increase in what events, in recent years, has prompted a call for further research in this area?
Increasing use of suicide bombers as agents of terroristic religious practice
In regard to the health care rituals of patients, specific objects - such as crosses, rabbit's feet, garlic amulets, etc. - are most typically used to
Invoke or ensure protection and healing
In multicultural health efforts, the importance of audience segmentation in designing health communication materials is that
It allows us to design and distribute messages that target specific aspects of the worldview of our target population
The extensive work currently focused on health care reform through legislative action most directly represents an example of which of the five strategies, recommended by the text, for eliminating health disparities?
Making policy and legal changes
The two areas, noted by the text, in which cultural practices/practitioners and US legal parameters regarding health most often come into conflict are
Midwifery, and herbal treatments of illness
Using an audience-centered approach to health communication means that
programs and activities reflect your audience's preferences, beliefs, lifestyles, etc., including language
In the majority of studies noted in your text, the positive effect of religious involvement on reducing risk of delinquent behavior is postulated to be the result of
religion offers hope or a sense of purpose or meaning in life
When selecting credible channels of communication for each major group in your service area, the most important consideration is
select channels/outlets that serve your specific racial and ethnic population
Dieting practices typically found in religions include all of the following except:
Overeating
A curandero claims that they can diagnose mental illness and prescribe herbs that can treat the disease. According to the laws of the US, this healer could be charged with
Practicing medicine without a license
Which of the following is NOT one of the noted advantages of widespread interactive media in health communications?
Privacy and confidentiality are more easily assured
The social relationships established within the parameters of religion are often considered to be healthy because they
Provide support and connectedness
On the Continuum of Multicultural Evaluation, as presented in your text, ensuring that the results of any program evaluation is shared with the community in culturally appropriate ways is an example of proficiency in the Principle of
Relevance and utility to diverse community
A culturally competent organization displays all of the following attributes except
Relies on others to promote cultural competence
A person or institutionalized system that is grounded in belief and worship
Religion
The text notes that religion and health has been more heavily researched than spirituality and health. The authors posit that this is because
Religion is associated with behaviors that can be quantified and measured
Your text discusses growing evidence that religious involvement may lower the risks of both minor and more serious criminal behavior, in both adolescents and adults. One proposed reason for this effect is
Religious beliefs help adolescents learn prosocial behaviors that emphasize concern for others' welfare.
According to your text, herbal remedies are used by a number of alternative practitioners, ad typically with the intent to
Restore homeostasis through treating the cause of disease
According to your text, the most common issues related to herbal remedies, such as those used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, are concerns regarding
Safety and efficacy
At the local level, investigations of traditional healing practitioners or practices would be carried out by the
State and/or county department of health
Within the five goals of the framework of the HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, the training of community health workers, such as promotoras, would be an action step within the goal to
Strengthen the nation's health and human services workforce
A rural physician forwards a set of diagnostic films to a radiologist at a large medical; the med center physician reviews the films and sends a second opinion back to the rural physician. This most directly illustrates which strategy, noted in your text, for improving access to health care?
Telehealth
The essential basis for the Five Elements Theory, in Traditional Chinese Medicine is:
The five organ systems of the body are each tied to a particular element and its associated phenomena
Which of the following is NOT one of the clinical implications of the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health, as noted in the text?
The geographical location of a church could put a patient at risk
As cited in your text, which of the following is one of the primary resources that drugs, such as stimulants and depressants, are used in some cultures and religions?
To symbolize or represent some aspect of their belief system
In considering the contributions of health communication to health promotion and prevention, the improvement of interpersonal and group interactions in clinical settings is primarily accomplished through
Training of health professionals
Which of the following most accurately describes the essential process of back translation?
Translating material from the source language to the target language, then back to the source language
Which of the following is NOT cited by your text as one of the purposes of rituals?
They are an effective way for religious leaders to get more money
In recent years, there have been a number of changes in the health communication environment. Which of the following is NOT one of the changes noted by your text?
An increased reliance by the patient on face-to-face communication with their MD for most health information
In the CDC general guidelines for any program evaluation, Step 1, which is particularly crucial in multicultural settings, is the step in which evaluators
Engage stakeholders
The Affordable Care Act used all of these methods to improve access to care except
Expansion of Medicare
According to the video "The Evolution of Health Communication," the initial health communication pathway was
Face-to-face between doctor and patient
Which of the following is NOT a Mind-Body intervention, in the realm of CAM practices?
Feldenkrais
Which of the following is NOT one of the basic principles of the Theory of Qi?
Flows throughout the body in a broad and general way, rather than along pathways
Which of the following is NOT one of the four overarching goals of Healthy People 2020, as they relate to health disparities?
Fund research that focuses on the elimination of health disparities
In contrast to western medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine bases its diagnoses on
The pattern of symptoms reported by the patient
Which of the following statements is FALSE, in regard to religious involvement and delinquent behavior and deviant activities in youth?
The positive effect of religious involvement is lost once the youth reaches adulthood
When applying strategies for culture-specific health communication efforts, if you wanted to increase general receptivity to and acceptance of your public health campaign you would primarily use messages that address
The surface level of cultural structure
Public health efforts often seek to change the social climate, in order to promote positive health behaviors and environments. Many public health campaigns use social marketing for this, which involves
The systematic application of marketing practices to achieve behavioral goals for a social good.
The text notes that religion can be a contributor to distress and the onset of mental illness. This was noted to be most true when
There seemed, to the person, to be a failure of religious beliefs
