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Provides a government-supported consumer service that ensures equal access to health care for all citizens of a country is socialized medicine

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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A special position in society in which one is temporarily relieved of responsibilities and accepts a position of dependence is sick role

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Handling of some forms of deviance as well as some normal human functions (such as pregnancy and childbirth) in the health care system rather than the family, legal, or religious arenas is called

Medicalization

Medicare

Medicaid

Illness

Answer

Correct Answer: Medicalization

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A government-run health insurance system for those 65 and older in the United States is called

Medicalization

Medicare

Medicaid

Illness

Answer

Correct Answer: Medicare

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The government-run health insurance plan for low-income families in the United States is called

Medicalization

Medicare

Medicaid

Illness

Answer

Correct Answer: Medicaid

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Lack of health is called

Medicalization

Medicare

Medicaid

Illness

Answer

Correct Answer: Illness

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A state of physical, mental, and social well-being or the absence of disease is called health

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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The process through which a professional occupation loses autonomy, respect, and service orientation because the professionals come to be controlled by nonprofessionals and outside forces is deprofessionalization

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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A study that examines the way in which a disability impacts a person’s ability to work would be a meso-level study.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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In some ways, the health care system in the U.S. is among the worst in the world.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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______ is a special position in society in which one is temporarily relieved of responsibilities and accepts a position of dependence.

Medicalization

Hospitalization

Curanderismo

The sick role

Answer

Correct Answer: The sick role

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Some diseases that are easily treatable in rich countries cause numerous deaths in poor countries.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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The proliferation of airplane travel has increased the spread of global diseases.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Beliefs about what constitutes illness are culturally determined.

True

False

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Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following led to the growth of hospitals?

Lower health care costs

Industrialization

The rise in morality

A surplus of skilled nurses

Answer

Correct Answer: Industrialization

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Which type of health care system is government operated and provides equal access to all citizens?

Decentralized national health care

HMO

PPO

Socialized medicine

Answer

Correct Answer: Socialized medicine

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What is one argument in favor of euthanasia?

Physicians take the Hippocratic Oath to extend life

Terminally ill persons, at base levels, are more likely to commit suicide than non–terminally ill patients

The pain of terminally ill patients can be relieved with medication

Allowing terminally ill people to commit suicide may be a “slippery slope.”

Answer

Correct Answer: Terminally ill persons, at base levels, are more likely to commit suicide than non–terminally ill patients

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Shekina is interested in examining if the way in which a doctor verbally describes a patient’s symptoms impacts whether the patient feels that he or she is actually ill. Which theoretical perspective is Shekina most likely using?

Symbolic interactionist

Structural functionalist

Conflict

Feminist

Answer

Correct Answer: Symbolic interactionist

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