Chapter 11 powerpoint pt. 2

Question 1

What is the difference between morbidity and mortality?

Answer 1

Morbidity is a measure of sickness or disease within a geographic area.
Mortality is a measure of deaths within a population or geographic area.

Question 2

What is the association between social inequality and health?

Answer 2

Despite advances in screening techniques, vaccinations, or any other piece of health technology or knowledge, the underlying fact is that those from low SES (social economic status) communities lack resources to protect and/or improve their health.

Question 3

How does race impact health?

Answer 3

There are numerous health discrepancies between races in the United States, with whites having the best outcomes overall.

Question 4

The starkest differences between race and health can be found between ______ and ______.

Answer 4

whites

blacks

Question 5

Which race typically has the longest lifespans?

Answer 5

whites

Question 6

Acculturation to mainstream U.S. culture is associated with lower vegetable consumption among _______ immigrants.

Answer 6

Latino/a

Question 7

__________ to mainstream U.S. culture is associated with lower vegetable consumption among Latino/a immigrants.

Answer 7

Acculturation

Question 8

What is the largest and one of the fastest growing ethnic minority groups in the U.S.?

Answer 8

Latinos

Question 9

What race faces higher rates of obesity and diabetes?

Answer 9

Latinos

Question 10

________ consumption is critical in preventing chronic disease.

Answer 10

Vegetable

Question 11

Vegetable consumption is critical in preventing _______ disease

Answer 11

chronic

Question 12

_____ is one of the most important health determinants.

Answer 12

Diet

Question 13

The World Health Organization (WHO, 2010) recognizes that gender is an important determinant of health in two dimensions:
1.
2.

Answer 13

1. Gender inequality leads to health risks for women and girls globally
2. Addressing gender norms and roles leads to a better understanding of how the social construction of identity and unbalanced power relations between men and women affect the risks

Question 14

What are some of the sociocultural factors that prevent women and girls to benefit from quality health services and attaining the best possible level of health?

Answer 14

• unequal power relationships between men and women;
• social norms that decrease education and paid employment opportunities
• an exclusive focus on women’s reproductive roles
• potential or actual experience of physical, sexual and emotional violence.

Question 15

Recent figures indicate that ___% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.

Answer 15

35%

Question 16

Recent figures indicate that 35% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate _______ violence or non-partner _______ violence in their lifetime.

Answer 16

partner

sexual

Question 17

Women are more susceptible to _________ and ______ than men.

Answer 17

depression

anxiety

Question 18

__________ is the leading cause of disease burden for women in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries.

Answer 18

Depression

Question 19

What are the main causes of death worldwide in adolescent girls ?

Answer 19

Self-inflicted injuries, road traffic injuries, and drowning.

Question 20

_____ ______ injuries are the leading cause of death among adolescent girls in high- and upper-middle-income countries.

Answer 20

Road traffic

Question 21

Globally, __________ disease, often thought to be a “male” problem, is the number one killer of women.

Answer 21

cardiovascular

Question 22

Who lives longer and why?

Answer 22

Women live longer than men, which can be attributed in part to the types of illnesses each sex is more susceptible to as well as to how willing each sex is to seek medical care.

Question 23

Men who held lower ranks/lower status had much higher rates of common ________ and higher ________ rates.

Answer 23

illnesses

mortality

Question 24

Men in lowest ranks were more than twice as likely as men in the highest rank to suffer from _____________ disease.

Answer 24

cardiovascular

Question 25

What is the limitation in correlation between class and health?

Answer 25

It did not account for personality difference and skill set.

Question 26

How do neighborhoods impact health?

Answer 26

The neighborhood a child grows up in affects their earnings in adulthood and their likelihood of moving up the income distribution, and that low-income boys are particularly vulnerable to these effects.

Question 27

What is a food desert?

Answer 27

A geographic area that lack access to fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers.

Question 28

People with lower incomes are _____ likely to live in food deserts and _____ likely to have cars to access healthy food options.

Answer 28

more | less

Question 29

People with ______ incomes are more likely to live in _____ ______ and less likely to have cars to access healthy food options.

Answer 29

lower | food deserts

Question 30

Living in a food desert is associated with ______ ___________ of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Answer 30

lower consumption

Question 31

Living in a food desert is associated with higher _____ _____ _____ and higher rates of ______.

Answer 31

body mass index | obesity

Question 32

Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans have higher rates of ________ and ______ compared to whites. This may be partially explained by their food environment.

Answer 32

diabetes | obesity

Question 33

What races have higher rates of diabetes and obesity compared to whites?

Answer 33

Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans

Question 34

What is DSM short for?

Answer 34

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

Question 35

Beginning with the DSM's third edition, there has been a much greater emphasis on _________ psychiatry over dynamic psychiatry.

Answer 35

diagnostic

Question 36

Beginning with the DSM's third edition, there has been a much greater emphasis on diagnostic psychiatry over ________ psychiatry.

Answer 36

dynamic

Question 37

There has been a significant increase in the use of pharmaceuticals to treat mental illness. What are some of the negative aspects of this change?

Answer 37

1. devaluation of the benefits of talk therapy 2. overprescribing or mis-prescribing of pharmaceuticals 3. stigma attached to taking medication for mental illness 4. increasing power of pharmaceutical companies, which have benefited from the growth of the diagnostic approach

Question 38

Many psychiatrists consider the use of pharmaceuticals as simply ____ _____ ___ ____ _______ of ways to treat an individual

Answer 38

one tool in the toolbox

Question 39

As the medical profession becomes more like a consumer model and as pharmaceutical companies market their products directly to “__________” through ____________, it becomes more difficult for the medical professional to convince patients that using medicines alone might not be in their best interest.

Answer 39

consumers | advertisements

Question 40

as the medical profession becomes more like a consumer model and as pharmaceutical companies market their products directly to “consumers” through advertisements, it becomes more ________ for the medical professional to convince patients that using medicines alone might not be in their best interest.

Answer 40

difficult

Question 41

as the medical profession becomes more like a consumer model and as pharmaceutical companies market their products directly to “consumers” through advertisements, it becomes more difficult for the medical professional to convince patients that using ______________________________________________________.

Answer 41

medicines alone might not be in their best interest.

Question 42

Medication advertisements are illegal in what country?

Answer 42

Europe