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