Sociology Chapter 22

A symbolic-interaction approach to health and medicine emphasizes ________

Scientific medicine typically develops in ________

Today, more than a century after the onset of the Industrial Revolution, there has been an increase in the share of deaths caused by which of the following?

An exception to the general decline of infectious diseases in the United States is the increase in ________ after 1960.

The concept of "socialized medicine" refers to which of the following?

According to the World Health Organization, about how many of the world's people suffer from serious illness caused by poverty?

Poor health in low-income nations reflects which of the following factors?

Which of the following diseases is the biggest killer in today's high-income nations?

Parsons believed that illness is ________

Applying the sociological perspective, we see that the high rate of obesity in the United States reflects ________

Which of the following statements about gender and health is correct?

Society shapes human health because ________

During the early decades of the Industrial Revolution

Upon infection, people with HIV ________

In which of the following nations is almost all medical care under the control of government?

In the world's poorest nations today, life expectancy is as low as about ________

In the United States, how does life expectancy of white people compare to that of black people?

Research shows that masculinity is linked to health because ________

A criticism of Talcott Parsons's approach to health and medicine is that it ________

In his structural-functional analysis, Talcott Parsons claimed that society responds to illness by ________

Advancing medical technology has attacked infectious disease in poor countries with what result?

In the United States, which of the following factors has a strong link to life expectancy?

In which region of the United States is the problem of obesity most widespread?

The concept of "euthanasia" refers to ________

Read the following statements about health in the United States. Which of the statements is correct?

Which of the following categories of people in the United States is especially likely to smoke cigarettes?

Which of the following is an example of a chronic illness?

What is the death toll in the United States each year caused by diseases related to being overweight?

Of all high-income nations, which country relies the most on a direct-fee market system to pay for medical treatment?

Ideas about health can serve as a type of social control, as illustrated by the notion that ________

In poor nations around the world, about how many children die before they reach their first birthday?

Which of the following is considered a behavior placing people at high risk of HIV infection?

Which of the following categories of the U.S. population has the highest life-expectancy?

Which of the following statements about the "right to die" is true?

The rise of scientific medicine in the United States began about when?

The greatest cause of death among young people in the United States today is which of the following?

In Western Europe and North America, scientists began to understand the causes of infectious diseases at about what point in history?

Which of the following is a factor contributing to widespread obesity in U.S. society?

The greatest preventable cause of death in the United States is ________

Approximately what percentage of U.S. adults is overweight?

Which sexually transmitted disease infects at least 23 million U.S. adults (about one in six)?

Which of the following world regions is experiencing the most severe epidemic of AIDS?

The topic of psychosomatic disorders is of greatest interest to sociologists guided by which theoretical approach?

It is correct to say that the medical establishment in the United States is oriented towards which of the following?

If you were to visit a low-income nation to study its high death rates, what would you find to be the most common causes of death?

Social epidemiology is the study of ________

Holistic medicine asserts that ________

In the United States, an important medical issue is ________

Research shows that college women believe ________

Which of the following is the most common way people in the United States pay for medical care?