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