Dynamics: Chapter 13

1. Economics, age, and religion play significant roles in shaping every individual's viewof health care.

True

False

Health care affordability, age and mobility, and religious views of health and illness effect the use and participation in health care.

Explanation

Health care affordability, age and mobility, and religious views of health and illness effect the use and participation in health care.

2. Which of the following is an example of a physical or cultural characteristic thatmay identify members of a minority group?

Race

Religion

Customs and practices

All of the above

Minority groups often depend on location and do not represent the majority of the population in a given area.

Explanation

Minority groups often depend on location and do not represent the majority of the population in a given area.

3. In certain cultures, admitting to the experience of ________ is frowned upon, so patients will remain stoic and not complain.

Pain

Difficulty

Anger

Stress

4. Which of the following treatments involves inserting needles at specified locations in the body?

Acupressure

Acupuncture

Cutaneous stimulation

Therapeutic touch

5. Crowded living conditions have been associated with schizophrenia and other psychologicalproblems as well as the spread of disease.

True

False

6. The feelings of discomfort, stress, and sometimes inferiority that a personexperiences when placed in a different culture is known as

Stereotyping

Ethnic cleansing

Culture shock

Cultural assimilation

7. A form of prevention and treatment that uses old-fashioned remedies handed downfrom generation to generation is known as_______________.

Conventional medicine

Traditional medicine

Folk medicine

Modern medicine

Folk medicine consists of traditional "cures and treatments", such as salves, herbs, heat, or cold.

Explanation

Folk medicine consists of traditional "cures and treatments", such as salves, herbs, heat, or cold.

8. Poverty particularly affects older Americans and families headed by single mothers.

True

False

Single mothers and the elderly lack the resources or live on a limited income, often requiring government subsidies such as food stamps to meet basic needs.

Explanation

Single mothers and the elderly lack the resources or live on a limited income, often requiring government subsidies such as food stamps to meet basic needs.

9. Which of the following is NOT a reason that poor families often have poorer health than middle-class or upper-income families?

Lack of income

Lack of transportation

Lack of intelligence

All of the above

Transportation and income are factors that reduce access to health care.

Explanation

Transportation and income are factors that reduce access to health care.

10. Match the following

The presence of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and cultural origins in the same society

A group of people who are members of a larger cultural group, but whose attitudes and behaviors reflect different beliefs and values from those of the larger culture

The group within a society that tends to control that society’s values

Involves a sense of identification with a group based on a common heritage

Belief or assumption that a particular social or cultural group is superior in some way

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11. Health care workers should value each person's uniqueness and avoid _______________, the belief that one's own culture is superior to others.

Bias

Stereotyping

Ethnocentricism

Extermism

12. Each cultures _________________, or expected behaviors are passed to the next generation through formal teach and by children observing older people in the

Values

Customs

Norms

Beliefs

Dynamics: Chapter 13

1. Economics, age, and religion play significant roles in shaping every individual's viewof health care.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Which of the following is an example of a physical or cultural characteristic thatmay identify members of a minority group?

3. In certain cultures, admitting to the experience of ________ is frowned upon, so patients will remain stoic and not complain.

4. Which of the following treatments involves inserting needles at specified locations in the body?

5. Crowded living conditions have been associated with schizophrenia and other psychologicalproblems as well as the spread of disease.

6. The feelings of discomfort, stress, and sometimes inferiority that a personexperiences when placed in a different culture is known as

7. A form of prevention and treatment that uses old-fashioned remedies handed downfrom generation to generation is known as_______________.

8. Poverty particularly affects older Americans and families headed by single mothers.

9. Which of the following is NOT a reason that poor families often have poorer health than middle-class or upper-income families?

10. Match the following

11. Health care workers should value each person's uniqueness and avoid _______________, the belief that one's own culture is superior to others.

12. Each cultures _________________, or expected behaviors are passed to the next generation through formal teach and by children observing older people in the