NCSU SOC 202 Final UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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NCSU SOC 202
NCSU SOC 202 Final UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Functionalist Perspective- Health and Medicine - Correct Answer- Good health and effective
medical care are essential for the smooth functioning of society. Illness is "dysfunctional"
because it reduces people's ability to preform...
NCSU SOC 202 Final UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Functionalist Perspective- Health and Medicine - Correct Answer- Good health and effective
medical care are essential for the smooth functioning of society. Illness is "dysfunctional"
because it reduces people's ability to preform their roles in society. Society responds to illness
not only by providing medical care but by allowing people "sick role"
Sick Role - Correct Answer- Patterns of behavior defined as appropriate for people who are
ill. They must "look the part". Sick role releases people from everyday obligations such as
going to work.
Conflict Theory- Health and Medicine - Correct Answer- Social inequality characterizes the
quality of health and the quality of health care. People from disadvantaged social
backgrounds are more likely to become ill and to receive inadequate health care. Partly to
increase their incomes, physicians have tried to control the practice of medicine and to define
social problems as medical problems.
Social Constructionist- Health and Medicine - Correct Answer- Health and illness are social
constructions: Physical and mental conditions have little or no objective reality but instead
are considered healthy or ill conditions only if they are defined as such by a society.
Physicians "manage the situation" to display their authority and medical knowledge.
Health - Correct Answer- State of complete and physical, mental and social well-being.
Social Epidemiology - Correct Answer- The study of how health and disease are distributed
throughout a society's population. Examines both the origins and the spread of the disease.
Analyze how people's health is tied to their physical and emotional environments.
Relationship Between Health and Social Class - Correct Answer- Inequality is at the heart of
the differences in health among different segments of the population. All societies distribute
resources unequally. Overall, the rich have far better physical, mental, and emotional health
than do the poor.
Disease Model - Correct Answer- Patients are first diagnosed and then treated for illness.
critics argue there is lack of emphasis on prevention- evidence that prevention of many
illnesses is possible but focus is on health rather than illness.
, Socialized Medicine - Correct Answer- The government owns and runs the entire healthcare
system. Pays for all healthcare services.
United States Costs of Medical Care - Correct Answer- 18% of our gross domestic product,
3rd leading industry in the U.S. we spend 2x per capita as the United kingdom or Sweden.
No National Program of Universal Healthcare (U.S.) - Correct Answer- Most sectors of
health care system are for-profit businesses i.e. hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
Spending on prescription drugs has increased from 40 billion (1990) to 326 billion.
Medicare - Correct Answer- Provides health insurance to older americans
Medicaid - Correct Answer- Provides health insurance to poor americans
Managed Care - Correct Answer- a system of providing health care (as by an HMO or a PPO)
that is designed to control costs through managed programs in which the physician accepts
constraints on the amount charged for medical care and the patient is limited in the choice of
physician.
Direct Fee System - Correct Answer- patients are responsible for paying the fees the health
care provider charges. insurance companies may cover part of or all expenses.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) - Correct Answer- an organization that provides or
arranges comprehensive medical care to subscribers for a fixed fee
Defensive Medicine - Correct Answer- refers to the practice of recommending a test or
medical treatment that is not necessarily the best option for the patient, but an option that
mainly serves the function to protect the physician against the patient as a potential plaintiff.
2010 Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act (critical features) - Correct Answer- 1.
Expansion of availability of health care insurance to all Americans
2. Insurance companies may not deny coverage to children (under age 19) because of
preexisting conditions
3. Elimination of lifetime coverage limits on insurance coverage
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