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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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3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult within Weste
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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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4. Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
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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 wit
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h 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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d) It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
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d biology because
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b) theyare determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
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c) they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
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9. “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
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a) address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
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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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a) the community.
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12. Whichp questionp belowp supportsp thep strategy:p “Identifyp women’sp agencyp in
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p thep midstpofp social p constraintp andp thep biomedicalp paradigm.”?
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c) “Arep womenp reallyp victimsp orp arep theyp actingp withp agency?”
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d) “Whop hasp ap choicep withinp the p context p ofp health?”
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13. Whatp hadp beenp ap significantp problemp inp medicalp researchp wellp intop thep
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1990s?
a) Thep focusp onp randomizedp clinicalptrials p overp epidemiologicalp investigations
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b) Thep lackp ofp representationp ofp womenp inp researchp trials
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