, Chapter 1 A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health & Chapter
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2 Racism and Health Disparities
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Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
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1. Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
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a) A person’s sex
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b) A person’s sex as defined by society
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c) A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
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d) A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
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2. Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
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a) The complexity of women’s health
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b) Women’s status and position in society br br br br br
c) Population growth br
d) The economy br
3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult within West
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ern societies?
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a) The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
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b) The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
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c) The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
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d) Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression. br br br br br
4. Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
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a) Not having a choice br br br
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c) An act of tyranny
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d) A feeling of being burdened
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5. In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective contrast sharply w
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ith a biomedical model?
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a) It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
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b) It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
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c) It emphasizes women’s rights. br br br
d) It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
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a) society, biology br
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c) biology, environment and experience br br br
d) biology, hormones br
7. Women’s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not always based in science a br br br br br br br br br br br br
nd biology because
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a) they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.
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b) they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
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c) they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
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8. Reproductive rights were added to the World Health Organization’s human rights fr br br br br br br br br br br br
amework in the last ?
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9. “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
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10. What is a chief failing of the biomedical model in regards to women’s health care?
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a) Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
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b) Its consideration of women as central the model
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c) Its emphasis on science and medicine
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d) Its limited definition of “health” as “the absence of disease”
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11. The social model of health places the focus of health on
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b) the individual. br
c) environmental conditions. br
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d) “Who p has p ap choice p withinp the p context p of p health?”
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13. What p had p been p a p significant p problem p in p medicalp researchp well p intop the p
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1990s?
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b) The p lack p ofp representation p ofp women p in p research p trials
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