HSCI 130 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
What are the concepts of health which work for you? Why? - Answers - - Normality
- Adaptability
- Balance
- Fitness
- Adaptability
- Function
- Absence of Ilness and Dieseasw
- Resource for life
- Physical, Emotional, Social
Upstream and Downstream - Answers - Upstream: things that happen before you
someone gets sick, the root causes
Downstream: things that happen someone is already sick dealing with concequences
Sensitivity Vs Specificity - Answers - Both: Find FP and FN
- Increasing Sensitivity = decrease FN
- Increasing Specificity = decrease FP
How do we measure health? - Answers - 1) levels of cortisol
2) index of life events
3) precieved stress score
4) biological markers of stress
5) mental health stress
Key features of Canadian Health System: - Answers - - health care delivery is the
responsibility of the PROVINCES
- privately delivered and publically financed
- private providers and public not for profit hospitals
- fee for service funding and global budgets
- choice of practitioner
- universal coverage applies to less than half of total health care expidentures
What are the 5 Principals of Canada Health Act: - Answers - Comprehensiveness -
Provincial plans must cover all medically necessary hospital and physician services.
Universality - All eligible residents must be given care on uniform terms and conditions.
, Portability - Coverage remains valid when moving provinces or travelling within Canada.
Public Administration - Health insurance plans must be run on a non-profit basis by a
public authority.
Accessibility - Care must be provided without financial or other barriers (no user fees,
no extra billing).
What are explanations in the social gradient? - Answers - 1) - materialist: don't have the
resources to make the healthy choice
- ex. not having enough money to buy healthy food
- differential exposure hypothesis
2) neo-materialist: an external factor and out of your hands
- ex. no grocery stores nearby
3) Psychosocial Explanations
- comparing yourself to others
4) cultural behaviours
- poor health is a result of bad coping, behaviours and norms
- differential vulnerability hypothesis
How do we finance healthcare: - Answers - - taxes
- health insurance
- out of pocket expenditures
Illness vs Disease Vs Sickness - Answers - - Disease: biological pathology
- Illness: personal experience of symptom
- Sickness: socia rate/ Identity (sick role)
Racism and Health - Answers - - racism is embodied through chronic stress
- effects access to resources, exposures, vulnerability, medical care
- indigenous racism comes from colonization residential schools and forced
hospitalization
Why is gender determinant of health? - Answers - 1) biological/physiological differences
- hormones genetics reproductive differences affect disease patterns
2) gender role theory
- social expectations shape behaviour men r risk taking women r caregiving)
3) gender division of labour:
What are the concepts of health which work for you? Why? - Answers - - Normality
- Adaptability
- Balance
- Fitness
- Adaptability
- Function
- Absence of Ilness and Dieseasw
- Resource for life
- Physical, Emotional, Social
Upstream and Downstream - Answers - Upstream: things that happen before you
someone gets sick, the root causes
Downstream: things that happen someone is already sick dealing with concequences
Sensitivity Vs Specificity - Answers - Both: Find FP and FN
- Increasing Sensitivity = decrease FN
- Increasing Specificity = decrease FP
How do we measure health? - Answers - 1) levels of cortisol
2) index of life events
3) precieved stress score
4) biological markers of stress
5) mental health stress
Key features of Canadian Health System: - Answers - - health care delivery is the
responsibility of the PROVINCES
- privately delivered and publically financed
- private providers and public not for profit hospitals
- fee for service funding and global budgets
- choice of practitioner
- universal coverage applies to less than half of total health care expidentures
What are the 5 Principals of Canada Health Act: - Answers - Comprehensiveness -
Provincial plans must cover all medically necessary hospital and physician services.
Universality - All eligible residents must be given care on uniform terms and conditions.
, Portability - Coverage remains valid when moving provinces or travelling within Canada.
Public Administration - Health insurance plans must be run on a non-profit basis by a
public authority.
Accessibility - Care must be provided without financial or other barriers (no user fees,
no extra billing).
What are explanations in the social gradient? - Answers - 1) - materialist: don't have the
resources to make the healthy choice
- ex. not having enough money to buy healthy food
- differential exposure hypothesis
2) neo-materialist: an external factor and out of your hands
- ex. no grocery stores nearby
3) Psychosocial Explanations
- comparing yourself to others
4) cultural behaviours
- poor health is a result of bad coping, behaviours and norms
- differential vulnerability hypothesis
How do we finance healthcare: - Answers - - taxes
- health insurance
- out of pocket expenditures
Illness vs Disease Vs Sickness - Answers - - Disease: biological pathology
- Illness: personal experience of symptom
- Sickness: socia rate/ Identity (sick role)
Racism and Health - Answers - - racism is embodied through chronic stress
- effects access to resources, exposures, vulnerability, medical care
- indigenous racism comes from colonization residential schools and forced
hospitalization
Why is gender determinant of health? - Answers - 1) biological/physiological differences
- hormones genetics reproductive differences affect disease patterns
2) gender role theory
- social expectations shape behaviour men r risk taking women r caregiving)
3) gender division of labour:
