Chapter 11 example #27644

One can best equate homeopathy to:

Since 1981, AIDS has killed more than ____________ Americans.

The "drift explanation" of the relationship between health and socioeconomic status states that:

What might inhibit American teenagers from reaching their maximum growth potential?

The Whitehall Study found which of the following factors important in determining health outcomes?

Inequality creates ____________, which affects our height through stress reactions.

Asians tend to have lower infant mortality rates than others in the United States. This is most likely attributable to:

Society believes that a doctor driving by the scene of an accident has:

In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) III:

When Susie takes up smoking, the cost of her insurance coverage goes up. This is a result of:

Reproductive technology has increased the number of multiple births, which leads to the ethical issue of:

Married people tend to live longer than unmarried people. It could be that they take better care of themselves when they have the responsibility of a family. It could also be that:

____________ results from inadequate growth during gestation or a curtailed period of gestation.

The American Medical Association was the beginning of the end (until very recently) of:

What is one reason men have higher mortality rates than women?

Which of the following is NOT a volunteer organization in which physicians volunteer to help poor nations?

What did Bogin find was different in the Mayans' lifestyle that allowed them to grow 4 inches taller in the United States than in Guatemala?

Which government program provides medical care for the elderly and the young with disabilities?

What public health risk do we face if more and more people fail to complete prescribed courses of antibiotics?

Who is more likely to die young?

Why did the elderly who received more Social Security have higher mortality rates than the elderly who received less Social Security and had to work part-time?

After mental illness became "medicalized," what was one major change that occurred?

A government program that provides health insurance for the poor is:

Use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV is now required by:

Recently, voters in California weighed in on a proposed additional tax on cigarettes in that state. Californians were voting on a proposed:

Lleras-Muney (2005) found that an extra year of schooling decreased a person's chances of dying by ____________ percentage points in a ten-year period.

A professional who attempts to make a client happy at the expense of the esteem of his or her peers is known to sociologists as:

Which profession has the least number of practitioners in the United States?

Some insurance companies base the cost to consumers on:

Poor diet during adolescence can be detrimental to growth potential because:

The longevity discrepancy between blacks and whites may be a sign of:

One concern of using technology such as amniocentesis in countries like China and India is:

Historically, physicians did not have particularly high prestige, but their power did peak around:

One of the things that may have led Dr. Paul Farmer's (cofounder of Partners in Health) continued commitment to helping the poorest regions of the world with regard to health care is:

What did Mechanic and Meyer find to be the most important factor for patients in rating their doctor?

What population currently has the highest rate of HIV contraction in the United States?

Which of the following is a reason for the decline in doctors' authority after 1990? You Answered

In about the 1990s, physicians' authority began to decline for several reasons, one of which was that more physicians were associated with HMOs. This meant that physicians:

Massachusetts passed a law that could leave less than 1 percent of the state's population:

Morbidity means ____________; mortality means ____________.

One of the things that may have led Dr. Paul Farmer's (cofounder of Partners in Health) continued commitment to helping the poorest regions of the world with regard to health care is:

Since 1981, AIDS has killed more than ____________ people worldwide.

The regulation of schooling for doctors:

The main problem of fee-for-service is doctors have an incentive to:

Fee-for-service means physicians are:

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that doctors establish their power?

Which type of family has higher child mortality rates?

In 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed, making it:

Your text suggests that significant economic development in underdeveloped areas of the world would require:

Which of the following contributes to increasing rates of heart disease and hypertension in women?

When it comes to health care, Western societies:

One of the criticisms of the Whitehall Study is that the researchers did not adequately address the possibility that occupational and health differences were caused by:

A sociological explanation for the rise in autism diagnoses in recent years is that:

The American values of hard work and self-reliance might lead blacks to follow the example of which folklore figure in order to prove themselves?

What invention first helped doctors examine patients rather than just observe them?