soc quizzes

______________ suicide occurs when people feel themselves so strongly integrated into a demanding society that their only escape seems to be suicide.

Altruistic

A disgruntled coworker infects a box of pastries with dysentery, causing several staff to become ill. This is an example of:

Bioterrorism

The poor have the highest rates of disease and disability of any socioeconomic group, demonstrating their greater biological disposition toward illness.

False

Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was mainly due to:

Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation

A researcher is interested in reporting how many people in a community were diagnosed with HIV during the past month. He/she would measure the:

Incidence

According to Richard Wilkinson, which is the most important variable influencing a county's overall level of health?

Income inequality within a country

_________________ has special significance for a society because it is traditionally used as an approximate indicator of a society's standard of living and quality of health care delivery.

Infant mortality rate

As a nation shifts from primarily rural-agricultural to urban-industrial, what changes are seen in the health profile of the nation?

Leading causes of death change from mostly infectious diseases to chronic diseases.

The primary cause of low life expectancy in the less developed nations is

poverty

With the transition to a greater prevalence of chronic diseases, physicians have increasingly had to take which approach to medical care?

"Whole person" care.

The type of stressor characterized by enduring problems, conflicts, and threats that people typically face in their daily lives (such as family or job problems) is known as_______________.

Chronic strain

__________ are a more powerful determinant of depressive disorders and other health problems than__________.

Chronic strains; life events

The germ theory of disease is a perspective which asserts:

Diseases are caused by a biological agent.

Which component of social class is consistently the strongest single predictor of good health?

Education

There are two categories of bioterrorism:

Overt and covert.

What is homeostasis?

Physiological adaptation.

Which of the following is true?

Sales of tobacco have increased in less developed nations over the last 40 years.

A social class is a category or group of people who:

Share similar levels of wealth, status, and power

The finding that even the upper middle class lives shorter than the uppermost class, and that every class lives longer than the one directly below it is evidence of what?

Social gradient in mortality.

The appearance of the West Nile virus in New York city reflects:

The role of globalization in the spread of infectious diseases.

The __________ suggests that neither life events nor chronic strains are in and of themselves stressful, but rather it is the perceived world, whether it is real or not, that is the basis for the stress response.

Thomas theorem

A ratio, such as the crude mortality rate, is expressed as:

Total number of cases divided by total population.

In which study were syphilis patients intentionally not treated and allowed to die?

Tuskegee.

Most deaths caused by malaria occur among

children in Africa

HIV/AIDS is especially common in Africa in part because of

concurrent sexual partners

Diarrheal diseases in less developed nations are primarily caused by

contaminated food and water

Thoits (2010) defines the ________________ as the sum of acute and chronic stresses that one has experienced.

cumulative stress burden

According to Durkheim, ______________ suicide occurs when people become detached from society and, suddenly on their own, are overwhelmed by the resulting stress.

egoistic

Drug companies are typically non-profit agencies and do not benefit when academics publish articles about the effectiveness of their drugs.

false

The special health problems along the US-Mexico border in part reflect the impact of

globalization

The primary measure of a country's development level is its

gross national income per capita

The first stage of the Epidemiological Transition was characterized by ____ rates of ___________.

high ; infectious diseases

The ___________________ principle suggests that contact between similar people occurs at a higher rate than among dissimilar people (i.e., 'birds of a feather, flock together').

homophily

The best way to reduce infant mortality is to

increase women's social status

The type of role strain referring to the demands that two or more roles held by a person are incompatible, is referred to as _____________.

inter-role conflict

As a result of anti-malaria pesticide campaigns in the less developed nations,

many mosquitoes have become resistant to pesticides

A situation in which an individual is in an unwanted role and feeling an obligation to do one thing while preferring to do something else (e.g. a retired person who wishes they were still working) is referred to as _______________.

role captivity

The relative influence of income and education on health changes over the life course.

true

Of the following, which is the most important cause of maternal mortality in less developed nations?

unsterile abortion