Test Bank for Health: The Basics, 14th edition by Becky Donatelle
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Test Bank for Health: The Basics, 14th edition 14e by Becky Donatelle. ISBN-13: 7099
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PART 1: FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE
1. Health: Getting There, Staying There!
1A. FOCUS ON DIFFERENCE, DISPARITY, AND HEALTH: ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY
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Health: The Basics, 14e (Donatelle)
Chapter 1a Focus On: Difference, Disparity, and Health: Achieving Health Equity
1) A society characterized by health equity
A) has a lower life expectancy among certain social groups than among others.
B) views health as a valuable individual characteristic, not a public good.
C) establishes policies that benefit certain social groups at the expense of others.
D) works to prevent or reverse conditions that undermine health.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
2) A society characterized by health disparities
A) distributes health risks equally among population groups.
B) distributes social resources equally among population groups.
C) is fundamentally unjust.
D) has attained the highest level of health for all.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
3) By the year 2060, the population of the United States will be
A) more than 60% non-Hispanic white.
B) more than 25% Hispanic.
C) about 20% Black or African American.
D) about 20% Asian American.
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
4) Crystal, who maintains a slender body weight by limiting her food intake and exercising daily,
assumes that people who are obese have no willpower. This assumption is an example of
A) a stereotype.
B) othering.
C) discrimination.
D) a health disparity.
Answer: A
Diff: 3
Skill: Applying
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
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,5) Which of the following statements about diversity in America is TRUE?
A) Between 2016 and 2060, the population of Americans under age 18 is expected to increase
much more sharply than the population age 65 or older.
B) The percentage of Americans identifying as LGBT declined slightly between 2012 and 2020.
C) About 40 percent of Americans age 23 to 38 are religiously unaffiliated.
D) In 2019, about 75 percent of Americans identified as Christian.
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
6) Our ability to recognize difference
A) is highly evolved and broadly accurate.
B) is largely dictated by society.
C) is based on intimate knowledge of another's life history and current experiences.
D) helps prevent us from engaging in false assumptions about others.
Answer: B
Diff: 4
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
7) Eitan is 19 years old, Jewish, transgender, overweight, and lives with his single mother.
Which of the following statements about Eitan is TRUE?
A) Eitan smokes.
B) Eitan almost certainly suffers from clinical depression and has a low sense of self-esteem.
C) Eitan is a unique individual.
D) Health statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control indicate that Eitan is at high risk
for suicide.
Answer: C
Diff: 5
Skill: Evaluating
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
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,8) The costs to society of health disparities
A) increase when individuals have high-quality health insurance that covers preventive care.
B) increase when a community lacks drug treatment programs and individuals with substance
abuse disorders leave the workforce.
C) are estimated to amount to nearly $1 billion annually.
D) are unavoidable.
Answer: B
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
9) Luz immigrated to the United States from Columbia when she was sixteen. She last visited a
physician three years ago. The physician told her that her blood pressure was high and prescribed
medication. Since then, Luz has avoided doctors because she works full-time for a small
housekeeping service that does not offer health insurance. Which of the following statements
about Luz is TRUE?
A) Luz is at risk for a health crisis that would likely require treatment far more costly to society
than the cost of primary care visits and medication.
B) Luz' ethnicity is a much more powerful determinant of her high blood pressure than is her
socioeconomic status.
C) Luz could afford to purchase her own health insurance if she really wanted it.
D) Luz almost certainly has access to free health care at a community health clinic in her area.
Answer: A
Diff: 4
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
10) Which of the following choices best exemplifies stereotyping?
A) referring to someone with dark skin as a "person of color"
B) excluding someone with obesity from a community softball team
C) accommodating an employee with a vision impairment by providing a larger computer
monitor
D) anticipating that an individual who is in their mid-seventies will be forgetful because "all
older people are forgetful"
Answer: D
Diff: 4
Skill: Analyzing
Section: Why Has Health Equity Become a Critical Issue in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.1
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, 11) Which of the following statements about poverty in the United States is TRUE?
A) More males than females live in poverty.
B) Women who identify as heterosexual and cisgender have higher poverty rates than women
who identify as LGBTQ.
C) Males have greater student loan debt than females.
D) Females earn about $0.82 for every $1.00 that males earn.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: How Do the Social Determinants of Health Influence Health Disparities in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.2
12) All of the following are social determinants of health EXCEPT
A) federal, state, and local policymaking.
B) educational attainment.
C) the built environment.
D) economic stability.
Answer: A
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: How Do the Social Determinants of Health Influence Health Disparities in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.2
13) The Miller household is food insecure. This means that
A) the household is located in a food desert.
B) the household income is below the U.S. poverty line.
C) all household members are hungry at numerous times throughout the year.
D) the household lacks reliable access to sufficient food for all household members.
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Skill: Understanding
Section: How Do the Social Determinants of Health Influence Health Disparities in America?
Learning Outcome: 1a.2
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