TEST BANK
Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to
Prenatal and Postpartum Care
4th Edition by Kerri Durnell Schuiling; Chapters 1 - 35
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Chapter 1 A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health &
Chapter 2 Racism and Health Disparities
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
a) A person’s sex
b) A person’s sex as defined by society
c) A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
d) A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
2. Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
a) The complexity of women’s health
b) Women’s status and position in society
c) Population growth
d) The economy
3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult within Western
societies?
a) The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
b) The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
c) The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
d) Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
4. Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
a) Not having a choice
b) Not having a voice
c) An act of tyranny
d) A feeling of being burdened
5. In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective contrast
sharply with a biomedical model?
a) It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
b) It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
c) It emphasizes women’s rights.
d) It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
6. Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
a) society, biology
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b) self-representation,societalexpectations n n
c) biology, environment andexperience n n n
d) biology, hormones n
7. Women’s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not always based in science n n n n n n n n n n n
n and biologybecause
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a) theyare oftenbased onoutdated treatments and approaches.
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b) theyare determined bysocialexpectations and gender assumptions.
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c) theyoftenrelyonalternative treatments and approaches.
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d) scientific research oftenfails to take women intoconsideration. n n n n n n n n
8. Reproductive rights were added to the World Health Organization’s human rights n n n n n n n n n n
n framework in the last ?
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a) 5 years n
b) 10years n
c) 20years n
d) 40years n
9. “Safe Motherhood”was added tothe humanrights frameworkin order to
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a) address maternalmorbidityand mortalityona global level n n n n n n n n
b) meeta legalobligation n n n
c) correctaninjustice n n
d) correctanoversight n n
10. What is a chief failing ofthe biomedicalmodel inregards towomen’s healthcare?
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a) Its reliance onstudies comprised exclusivelyofmales
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b) Its considerationofwomenas centralthe model
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c) Its emphasis onscience and medicine
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d) Its limited definition of“health” as “the absence ofdisease”
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11. The socialmodel of healthplaces the focus ofhealthon
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a) thecommunity. n
b) the individual. n
c) environmentalconditions. n
d) scientificresearch. n
12. Whichquestionbelow supports the strategy: “Identifywomen’s agencyinthe midst of
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social constraint and the biomedicalparadigm.”?
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a) “Are‘all women’ the same?” n n n n
b) “Whydo youcare about the issue?” n n n n n n
c) “Are womenreallyvictims or are theyacting withagency?”
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d) “Who has achoice withinthe context ofhealth?” n n n n n n n n
13. What had been a significant problem in medicalresearchwell into the 1990s?
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a) The focus onrandomizedclinicaltrials over epidemiologicalinvestigations
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b) The lack ofrepresentationofwomen in researchtrials
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