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BBH 302 Exam #2 Study Guide with Complete Solutions Mortality causes for whites - Answer️️ --decrease in lung cancer -increase in everything else -great increase in poisonings since 2000 who has the highest rate of deaths by poisonings - Answer️️ -middle aged adults case and deaton f...

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Biobehavioral Health (BBH 302) : Penn State University


BBH 302 Exam #2 Study Guide with
Complete Solutions

Mortality causes for whites - Answer✔️✔️--decrease in lung cancer

-increase in everything else

-great increase in poisonings since 2000

who has the highest rate of deaths by poisonings - Answer✔️✔️-middle aged
adults

case and deaton findings on education levels with health - Answer✔️✔️-
Although all three educational groups saw increases in mortality from
suicide and poisonings, and an overall increase in external cause mortality,
increases were largest for those with the least education.

conclusion of case and deaton - Answer✔️✔️--The increased availability of
opioid prescriptions for pain that began in the late 1990s has been widely
noted.

-Tighter controls on opioid prescription brought some substitution into
heroin in areas where heroin had been previously largely unknown.

-The productivity slowdown in the early 1970s, and with widening income
inequality, many of the baby-boom generation are the first to find, in
midlife, that they will not be better off than were their parents
(intergenerational mobility).


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, ©SOPHIABENNET@2024-2025 Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:21 AM

Biobehavioral Health (BBH 302) : Penn State University

-Future financial insecurity may weigh more heavily on US workers
because of the lack of a strong social safety net (social drift theory).

-Those currently in midlife will age into Medicare in worse health than the
currently elderly

main idea from long article - Answer✔️✔️-Incomes of middle class
americans rose last year to the highest level and poverty declined

how much did household income increase and how much did poverty fall
(long article) - Answer✔️✔️-3.2% increase, 12.7% decrease in poverty

when was americans lacking health insurance at its lowest ever -
Answer✔️✔️-last year

inequalities with racial disparities (long article) - Answer✔️✔️--Median AA:
39,490

-Whites: 65,000

-Asian Americans: 81,000

trump administration plans for new health care - Answer✔️✔️-cut back on
programs that promote affordable care act which means uninsured
americans may grow

who is skeptical about the improvements stated in the long article
continuing to improve - Answer✔️✔️-economists




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, ©SOPHIABENNET@2024-2025 Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:21 AM

Biobehavioral Health (BBH 302) : Penn State University

main idea of krugman article - Answer✔️✔️-US policies are about either
raising tax incomes and using proceeds to strengthen social safety net
(liberals) or that taxing the rich policies hurt everyone by reducing the
incentives to create wealth (conservatives)

where extreme inequalities might come from - Answer✔️✔️--individuals
vary in their productivity

-inequalities based on luck

-inequalities based on power

when did americans achieve its most rapid growth and technological
progress despite higher top tax rates - Answer✔️✔️-1950's-60's

possible explanation for blacks having higher death rates than whites -
Answer✔️✔️-educational attainment

even within the same education level and SES... - Answer✔️✔️-blacks die
sooner than whites

english study used to understand the nature of social hierarchy looked at
what - Answer✔️✔️--owning their own car

-owning/ renting their own house

-did their labor involve manual or non manual labor

english study illustrates that the more forms of social advantage a person
has... - Answer✔️✔️-the lower the chances of death over time



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