Chapter 9

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

The state of complete physical mental and social well-being

Question 2

Infant mortality rate

Answer 2

The number of babies of every thousand born to die before their first birthday

Question 3

Means that a baby has at least a 99.5% chance of surviving the first year makes infant deaths quite rare

Question 4

Life expectancy At birth

Answer 4

The number of years on an average people in a society can expect to live

Question 5

Boys born in 2018 can live to 76 years girls born in that year can live 81 years in poor countries life expectancy is 57

Question 6

Chronic disease

Answer 6

Illness that has a long-term development

Question 7

Acute disease

Answer 7

An illness that strikes suddenly

Ebola malaria cholera

Question 8

Social epidemiology

Answer 8

Study of how health and disease are distributed throughout society’s population

Question 9

Epidemic

Answer 9

The rapid spreading of disease throughout a population Covid

Question 10

AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Answer 10

Most deadly pandemic

Question 11

1/3 Of the population living with HIV reside in 10 nations and central and southern Africa

Question 12

Socialist economies

Answer 12

Government controls most economic activity provide medical care and operate hospitals control everything

Question 13

Barefoot doctors in China

Answer 13

They visited rule Village is providing basic health 2 millions of Chinese peasants

Question 14

Capitalist economies

Answer 14

Distribute healthcare like other goods and services there a market system

Question 15

Capitalist economy healthcare

Answer 15

Individuals purchase healthcare according to their particular needs and personal resources high cost of healthcare can exceed the rates of even fairly well off people
Sweden Great Britain Canada Japan

Question 16

Socialist economy healthcare

Answer 16

Government provides medical services and operates all clinics and hospitals they are in control of everything people have to wait months stand in line for care

Question 17

Socialize medicine

Answer 17

Medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employees and physicians
China and Russia

Question 18

National health service

Answer 18

Funded by tax money provide scared all British citizens and pays for physician services in hospital stays

Question 19

Japanese people have the highest life expectancy in the world

Question 20

US treats medical care as a product to be purchased on the open market and is the only nation that does not provide government run system of healthcare

Question 21

What is the state of health care in this nation

Answer 21

1. US ranks below most other high income nations in healthcare
2. US spends more money per person for healthcare than other country
3. Health is uneequally distributed reflecting inequality

Question 22

US ranks 37th for life expectancy is below Canada

Question 23

Direct fee system

Answer 23

Medical care system in which patients or other insurance paid directly for the services of physicians and hospitals
People can obtain only the healthcare they can afford some having better care than others

Question 24

Why has medical care become so expensive six reasons

Answer 24

Spread of private insurance
More doctors who specialize
High technology
Lack of preventative care
Aging population
More lawsuits

Question 25

Preadmission testing

Answer 25

Doctors order bloodwork x-rays and other test before deciding whether patient needs to be admitted

Question 26

Outpatient treatment

Answer 26

Patient enters and leaves the hospital on the same day the procedure is done

Question 27

Regulating the length of hospitalization

Answer 27

Limit the hospital stay for a particular condition

Question 28

How can we hold down medical costs

Answer 28

Preadmission testing Outpatient treatmen Regulating the length of hospitalization

Question 29

Health maintenance organization HMO

Answer 29

Private insurance organizations that provide medical care to people for a fixed fee

Question 30

HMO’s try to keep cost down through manage care I controlling the treatment process and requiring preapproval from primary cares

Question 31

Medicaid Medicare government insurance pays 37% of the country’s medical bills

Question 32

Who pays the bills for Helthcare

Answer 32

Private insurance, HMOs, Medicaid, Medicare

Question 33

Reason for people without insurance

Answer 33

Companies cutting back on benefits provided to workers | Lack of expansion of Medicaid programs for low income people

Question 34

Affordable care act

Answer 34

Change the way the country pays for healthcare

Question 35

Prenatal care

Answer 35

Healthcare for women during pregnancy

Question 36

National Institute of health

Answer 36

Direct attention to women’s health issues

Question 37

Anorexia

Answer 37

A form of compulsive dating that leads people to eat a little maintain healthy body weight

Question 38

Bulimia

Answer 38

A disease that involves binging and purging cycles of eating large amounts of food and purging taking laxatives and vomiting to avoid gaining weight

Question 39

Disability

Answer 39

Physical or mental condition that limits every day activities

Question 40

Master status

Answer 40

Other people may attach such importance to the condition to overlook anything else that a person does

Question 41

Americans with disabilities act

Answer 41

Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities and employment in public accommodations

Question 42

Increased demand for nursing

Answer 42

1Technological advances 2Rapid expansion in hospital outpatient services 3Increasing focus on preventative care 4The passage of affordable care act 5Aging population consuming more services

Question 43

600,000 people died 4% of the number of confirmed infections for the US 141,000 or 4% of the confirmed infections died for COVID

Question 44

Covid infections is half the number of infections involving aids

Question 45

Differences between HIV and Covid

Answer 45

Covid is easily transmitted from person to person HIV is not Covid infection is far less likely to cause death than HIV Causes of COVID-19 and HIV or concentrated in different regions of the world

Question 46

Mental disorder

Answer 46

Condition involving thinking mood or behavior that causes distress or reduces a persons ability to function in every day life

Question 47

DSM – five

Answer 47

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders