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Social Behavior and Cultural Factor in Health

Week 5 Midterm

1The main difference between race and ethnicity is:

Race is a social construct and ethnicity is a group of characteristics that describe a group of people.

People can discriminate based upon race, but not on ethnicity.

People who believe in ethnicity and not race believe they are better than other races.

None of the above.

2Community-Oriented Primary Care is one way to:

Connect clinical care and public health.

Involve community members in the process finding cures to disease.

Reduce health care costs for marginalized citizens.Social Behavior and Cultural Factor in Health

All of the above.

3The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services includes all of the following constructs except:

Cultural awareness.

Cultural skill.

Cultural competences.

Cultural desire.

4Each is a contributing factor to individual health except:

Environmental exposures.

Genetics.

Behavior (lifestyle) choices.

Education.

5An example of a determinant would be:

Smoking.

Hurricane.

Religious beliefs.

All of the above.

6A current definition of public health might read as:

The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health…through organized community effort.

The organized community efforts aimed at the prevention of disease and the promotion of health.

The totality of all evidence – based public and private efforts that preserve and promote health and prevent disease, disability, and death.

None of the above.

7The relationship between theories of health and illness and a person’s “bodily experience” can best be described as:

Causal.

Correlational.

Influencing contextual meaning.

None of the above.

8Nongovernmental organizations provide assistance to public health initiatives by:

Educating the public.

Supporting research.

Providing health services.

All of the above.

9Health disparities can be identified by all of the following except:

Higher incidence of chronic disease.

Higher mortality.

Poorer health outcomes compared to the majority of the population.

Ethnicity.

10The concept of Community-Oriented Primary Care implies:

That public health issues can and should be addressed at the level of the community with active involvement of health care providers and community members.

Certain principles underlie the concept such as defining health care needs by examining the community as a whole.

That great leadership is required to develop community partnerships.

All of the above.

11A member of the Black Panther Party could be classified as which of the following in the acculturation framework discussed in the text:

Assimilated.Social Behavior and Cultural Factor in Health

Integrated.

Marginal.

Separated.

12The best example of how approaches to public health have changed over time would be:

A paradigm shift in the focus of attention in improving public health.

Development and discoveries within the medical profession.

Cultural and societal changes in the way we live.

None of the above.

13Which is not a step in developing Community-Oriented Primary Care?

Community definition.

Evaluation.

Intervention.

Assurance.

14Theories of illness can be divided into what two categories?

Personality and naturalistic.

Worldview and community view.

Cognitive orientation and cultural orientation.

None of the above.

15Evil eye is an example of:

A cognitive theory of illness.

A personality theory of illness.

A naturalistic theory of illness.