Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following categories of the U.S. population has the highest life-expectancy?
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Heart disease
  • White women
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
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?
  • 1 billion
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Heart disease
  • Infectious diseases
Read the following statements about health in the United States. Which of the statements is correct?
  • Private insurance programs
  • The symbolic-interaction approach
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Heart disease
In Western Europe and North America, scientists began to understand the causes of infectious diseases at about what point in history?
  • 1850
  • Scientific medicine
  • 1 in 10
  • Cancer
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?
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer
  • the distribution of health and illness in a population.
  • Heart disease
Which of the following is an example of a chronic illness?
  • Women generally have better health than men.
  • Cancer
  • Heart disease
  • White women
An exception to the general decline of infectious diseases in the United States is the increase in ________ after 1960.
  • using the "sick role" to relieve ill people of many daily responsibilities.
  • cultural forces that encourage people to eat large amounts of unhealthy fast food.
  • sexually transmitted diseases
  • assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness.
Applying the sociological perspective, we see that the high rate of obesity in the United States reflects ________
  • cultural forces that encourage people to eat large amounts of unhealthy fast food.
  • assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness.
  • sexually transmitted diseases
  • cigarette smoking.
Which of the following statements about the "right to die" is true?
  • Women generally have better health than men.
  • Private insurance programs
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
Scientific medicine typically develops in ________
  • the distribution of health and illness in a population.
  • industrial societies.
  • a shortage of nurses.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
Which sexually transmitted disease infects at least 23 million U.S. adults (about one in six)?
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • White women
  • Divorced people
  • Genital herpes
Which of the following is the most common way people in the United States pay for medical care?
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Divorced people
  • Private insurance programs
Which of the following categories of people in the United States is especially likely to smoke cigarettes?
  • White women
  • Genital herpes
  • Divorced people
  • All of these responses are correct.
Of all high-income nations, which country relies the most on a direct-fee market system to pay for medical treatment?
  • Divorced people
  • White women
  • The United States
  • Genital herpes
In which of the following nations is almost all medical care under the control of government?
  • 1 in 10
  • China
  • White women
  • Heart disease
A symbolic-interaction approach to health and medicine emphasizes ________
  • the meanings people attach to health and illness.
  • our culture's definition of masculinity encourages stress and heart disease.
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Women generally have better health than men.
It is correct to say that the medical establishment in the United States is oriented towards which of the following?
  • Scientific medicine
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • The United States
  • Divorced people
Which of the following diseases is the biggest killer in today's high-income nations?
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Heart disease
  • White women
  • All of these responses are correct.
During the early decades of the Industrial Revolution
  • a shortage of nurses.
  • It is about four years longer.
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • being thin is key to being attractive.
In poor nations around the world, about how many children die before they reach their first birthday?
  • It is about four years longer.
  • White women
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • 1 in 10
In his structural-functional analysis, Talcott Parsons claimed that society responds to illness by ________
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • cultural forces that encourage people to eat large amounts of unhealthy fast food.
  • cigarette smoking.
  • using the "sick role" to relieve ill people of many daily responsibilities.
Which of the following world regions is experiencing the most severe epidemic of AIDS?
  • Heart disease
  • White women
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Private insurance programs
A criticism of Talcott Parsons's approach to health and medicine is that it ________
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Private insurance programs
  • the meanings people attach to health and illness.
  • The symbolic-interaction approach
What is the death toll in the United States each year caused by diseases related to being overweight?
  • cigarette smoking.
  • 112,000 people
  • Infectious diseases
  • A medical system mostly owned and operated by the government
Holistic medicine asserts that ________
  • 1847, with the founding of the American Medical Association
  • dysfunctional.
  • patients should rely on themselves-not just physicians-to ensure their health.
  • our culture's definition of masculinity encourages stress and heart disease.
In the United States, an important medical issue is ________
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • It is about four years longer.
  • a shortage of nurses.
Ideas about health can serve as a type of social control, as illustrated by the notion that ________
  • It is about four years longer.
  • Heart disease
  • Chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer
  • All of these responses are correct.
The concept of "euthanasia" refers to ________
  • 1847, with the founding of the American Medical Association
  • assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness.
  • cigarette smoking.
  • using the "sick role" to relieve ill people of many daily responsibilities.
Upon infection, people with HIV ________
  • display no symptoms at all.
  • a shortage of nurses.
  • dysfunctional.
  • industrial societies.
The greatest cause of death among young people in the United States today is which of the following?
  • 112,000 people
  • cigarette smoking.
  • A medical system mostly owned and operated by the government
  • Accidents
Poor health in low-income nations reflects which of the following factors?
  • being thin is key to being attractive.
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • the meanings people attach to health and illness.
  • Women generally have better health than men.
The greatest preventable cause of death in the United States is ________
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness.
  • cigarette smoking.
  • fifty years.
In the world's poorest nations today, life expectancy is as low as about ________
  • It is about four years longer.
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Genital herpes
  • fifty years.
Research shows that college women believe ________
  • our culture's definition of masculinity encourages stress and heart disease.
  • being thin is key to being attractive.
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • industrial societies.
The topic of psychosomatic disorders is of greatest interest to sociologists guided by which theoretical approach?
  • It is about four years longer.
  • The symbolic-interaction approach
  • Private insurance programs
  • All of these responses are correct.
Society shapes human health because ________
  • Infectious diseases
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness.
  • Accidents
Which of the following statements about gender and health is correct?
  • All of these responses are correct.
  • Private insurance programs
  • Women generally have better health than men.
  • White women
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