Women’s Health A Primary Care Clinical Guide 5th Edition Youngkin Schadewald Pritham
Test Bank
Chapter 1 Access to Women’s Health Care in the United States: Affordability, Equity, Rights
1. Which health occupation has the highest percentage of women?
A. Pharmacists
B. Physical therapists
C. Registered nurses
D. Dental hygienists
Answer: D
2. Which health occupation has the lowest percentage of women?
A. Physicians
B. Dentists
C. Pharmacists
D. Physical therapists
Answer: B
3. Which health profession has the largest number of workers?
A. Health aides
B. Physicians
C. Licensed practical nurses
D. Registered nurses
Answer: D
4. Which of the following are certifications available in advanced practice registered nursing?
(Select all that
apply.)
,A. Certified nurse midwife
B. Certified registered nurse anesthetist
C. Certified nurse pharmacologist
D. Clinical nurse specialist
E. Nurse practitioner
Answer: A, B, D, E
5. What level of education is required to become a licensed practical nurse?
A. 2-year master’s degree (in addition to a 4-year bachelor’s degree)
B. 4-year bachelor’s degree
C. 2-year associate’s degree
D. 1-year certificate or diploma
Answer: D
6. What percentage of physicians and surgeons in the United States in 2014 were women?
A. 27%
B. 37%
C. 47%
D. 57%
Answer: B
7. What medical specialty has the highest percentage of women?
A. General pediatrics
B. Obstetrics and gynecology
C. Orthopedic surgery
D. Urology
,Answer: A
8. On an average, the income of female physicians is what percentage of that of male physicians?
A. 59%
B. 79%
C. 99%
D. 109%
Answer: A
9. What level of education is required to become a pharmacist?
A. 6-year doctorate degree
B. 2-year master’s degree (in addition to a 4-year bachelor’s degree)
C. 4-year bachelor’s degree
D. 2-year associate’s degree
Answer: A
10. Which of the following is the median income of dentists in the United States (2012)?
A. $89,310
B. $109,310
C. $129,310
D. $149,310
Answer: D
11. Which of the following are the current trends in dentistry? (Select all that apply.)
A. More specialists than generalists
B. Research linking oral health to overall health
C. Focus on treatment of disease rather than prevention
D. Expected growth of 18% from 2014 to 2024
E. Increasing demand for dental implants, bridges, and cosmetic services
,Answer: B, D, E
12. Which allied health occupation is projected to be the fastest growing?
A. Health information technicians
B. Nursing aides
C. Occupational therapists
D. Paramedics
Answer: A
13. One in five workers in which of the following allied health occupation is at or below the
federal poverty
level?
A. Medical assistant
B. Home health aide
C. Radiology technician
D. Speech-language pathologist
Answer: B
14. Veronica is a registered nurse who pours herself into her job. She works long hours without
complaint andstrives to do her best. Often, she maintains a cheerful, caring, and kind demeanor on
the outside whilefeeling exhausted and frustrated on the inside. The effort it takes to maintain this
front before her patientsresults in a lot of stress. This phenomenon can best be described as which
of the following?
A. Identity crisis
B. Psychological disparity
C. Emotional dissonance
D. Gender discrimination
Answer: C
15. Tests of implicit racial bias among health professionals have revealed which of the following?
A. An unconscious preference for Whites over Blacks
B. Use of racially charged, derogatory language
, C. Sharing of racist jokes
D. Lower pay for racial minorities
Answer: A
Chapter 2 Women’s Development into the 21st Century
1. To enhance women’s health care in the 21st century, researchers should do which of the
following? (Select
all that apply.)
A. Design studies in collaboration with women
B. Analyze changes in women’s health data relative to men’s
C. Include homogeneous populations of women in studies
D. Translate research findings into clinical and public health practice
E. Focus on treatment approaches equally applicable to men and women
Answer: A, B, D
2. Historically, gender has been defined by which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
A. Self-identification
B. Appropriate roles
C. Division of labor
D. Economic power
E. Political influence
Answer: B, C, D, E
3. Hammarstrӧm et al. propose a model of sex and gender that includes which of the following
concepts?
(Select all that apply.)
A. Binary sexuality based on one’s chromosomes
B. Sex, interacting with gender, as a continuum
,C. Biologically determined sex based on the effects of sex hormones on reproductive organ
development
D. Sex and gender as an integration of body, mind, and context
E. Intersectionality and embodiment as factors significantly affecting sex and gender
Answer: B, D, E
4. Which of the following is the best example of how gender bias has affected the health and health
care of
women?
A. Similar rates of mental illness being found in men and women
B. Treatment outcomes among women varying based on patient compliance
C. Association of patient income level with type of diagnosis
D. Disproportionately more psychotropic medications being prescribed to women thanmen
Answer: D
5. Krieger has proposed which of the following regarding sex, gender, and health? (Select all that
apply.)
A. Gender and sex played no significant role in determining health outcomes for women
B. Gender relations influence the expression and the interpretation of biological traits
C. Sex-linked biological characteristics contribute to gender differentials in health
D. Traditional perspectives on gender and sex have resulted in better health outcomes for women
than for
men
E. Equitable gender relationships have resulted in similar health outcomes in men and women
Answer: B, C
6. When did women’s health scholarship begin to flourish?
A. 1960s
B. 1970s
C. 1980s
, D. 1990s
Answer: B
7. Which of the following were the goals included in the report “Women’s Health Research:
Progress, Pitfalls,
and Promise,” which was published by the Office of Research on Women’s Health in 2010?
(Select all that
apply.)
A. Increase sex similarities research in basic sciences studies
B. Incorporate findings of sex and gender differences in the design of new technologies
C. Create strategic alliances to maximize domestic and global impact of women’s health research
D. Develop and implement new social networking technologies to promote men’s health and
wellness
research
E. Employ innovative strategies to build a well-trained, diverse, and vigorous women’s health
research
workforce
Answer: B, C, E
8. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993 mandated that the NIH do
which of the
following?
A. Expand health insurance coverage for women
B. Include women and minorities in clinical research
C. Research and develop new women-specific medications
D. Decrease infection rates during obstetric surgeries
Answer: B
9. Historical examples ofgender bias in medical textbooks include which of the following? (Select
all that
apply.)
