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Health Disparities Final Exam (Ch. 1-12) Exam Practice Questions and 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 nurs...

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Health Disparities Final Exam (Ch. 1-12)

Exam Practice Questions and 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 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER✔✔-True




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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 - 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 - ANSWER✔✔-a. quality and availability


Mortality measures the rate of illnesses in a community.




True of False - 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


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d. Medical, Race, Socioeconomic - 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 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER✔✔-a. Sociocultural




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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 - 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 - 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 - 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.




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