Health Disparities Final Exam (Ch. 1-12) UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Health Disparities Final Exam (Ch. 1-12)
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Most of the cost increases in health care costs are due to heavy investment in all of the
following EXCEPT which one?
a. New technology of advanced procedures
b. New facilities
c. Pay increases to physici...
Health Disparities Final Exam (Ch. 1-12)
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Most of the cost increases in health care costs are due to heavy investment in all of the
following EXCEPT which one?
a. New technology of advanced procedures
b. New facilities
c. Pay increases to physicians and nurses
d. New medication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. Pay increases to physicians and nurses
The Whitehall study was a study of how poverty is related to the chance of death or illness.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
Most of the variability in health status in the U.S. and other developed countries has little to
do with health care and everything to do with one's position in the social hierarchy.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
The U.S. spends much more of our national economy on health care than any other developed
country in the world and also has the best health status of all comparable countries.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
According to Chapter 1, in trying to improve health in developed societies, most of the
attention has been focused on improving what two characteristics of health care?
a. quality and availability
b. quality and gender
,c. quantity and type of medication
d. quality and amount of doctors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. quality and availability
Mortality measures the rate of illnesses in a community.
True of False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
From an individual level, what are the three models that make up a healthy state?
a. Medical, Psychological, Disability
b. Medical, Sociocultural, Psychological
c. Medical, Disability, Race
d. Medical, Race, Socioeconomic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. Medical, Sociocultural,
Psychological
What are the two measurements used to determined the health of a community?
a. Rates of illness and rates of death
b. Rates of death and age
c. Rates of illness and zip code
d. Rates of illness and age - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Rates of illness and rates of death
It is accurate to use rates of illnesses to compare the health of differing countries since most
diseases and illnesses around the globe are the same.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
Which model focuses on how a person functions and what a person can or cannot do with his
or her body?
a. Sociocultural
, b. All the above
c. Psychological
d. Medical - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a. Sociocultural
Growing up in impoverished circumstances that include crowding, inadequate sanitation, and
nutritional shortages, will lead to a deterioration of health over time.
True of False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- True
When society appears to hold out one normative message, yet reacts with another, an
individual may come to distrust society and it's norms. This is known as
a. autonomy
b. social anomie
c. self-efficiency
d. time preference - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- b. social anomie
The extent to which decision makes value future outcomes relative to immediate ones is
known as a. self-efficiency
b. autonomy
c. time preference
d. social anomie - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- c. time preference
A person who exhibits a high level of self-efficiency may not invest in long term goals and
approaches choices as if they're up to luck and fate.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
In this week's TED Talk entitled, "If You Want to Help Me, Prescribe Me Money," the doctor
practices in what city?
a. Inner City Los Angeles
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