HSCI 130 FINAL MCQ QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
What province did health care start in - Answers - Saskatchewan
What year did the rest of Canada follow Saskatchewan's medicare - Answers - 1972
What year was the Canada Health Act established - Answers - 1984
What was Canada's health spending GDP in 2023 - Answers - 12.1% GDP
What percent of BC's budget is spent on health care - Answers - 43%
What percent of BC's health care spending is on hospitals - Answers - 25.6%
What percent of BC's health care spending is on drugs - Answers - 13.9%
What percent of BC's health care spending is on physicians - Answers - 13.8
What are the three largest spending categories of health care in BC - Answers -
Hospitals, drugs, and physicians
What are the five theoretical paradigms - Answers - conflict paradigm, symbolic
interactionist paradigm, feminist paradigm, sociology of the body paradigm, structural
functionalist paradigm
What is a paradigm - Answers - a framework with basic assumptions, ways of thinking,
and methodology accepted by the scientific community
What is the conflict paradigm - Answers - capitalist society with competing interest
groups and constant power struggles in a political economy
What is the symbolic interactionist paradigm - Answers - views society as a socially
constructed product of everyday interactions of individuals
What is the sociology of the body paradigm - Answers - focuses on embodiment and the
relationship between the body and society
What is the structuralist functionalist paradigm - Answers - society is a harmonious
social system made up of a number of connected parts and institutions that maintain
order and stability
what is the Feminist paradigm - Answers - comprised of diverse ways of feminist
thought focusing on historical opression of women
, What are the components of the biomedical model - Answers - mind-body dualism,
physical reductionism, machine metaphor, specific etiology, individualized regimen and
control
what is mind-body dualism - Answers - philosophical separation of the mind and body
Physical reductionism - Answers - understanding things in small parts
Specific etiology - Answers - specific diseases have specific cases, so discovering the
cause will lead to interventions, treatments, and cures
Machine metaphor - Answers - the human body is a machine in western culture
Individualized regimen and control - Answers - regimens to fight and minimize the
disease and we have personal responsibility for body care and maintenance
What are ways to measure stress? - Answers - life events and difficulties scale,
schedule of recent experiences, and biological cortisol
how do we measure stress using the life events and difficulties scale - Answers -
interview-based, explicit operational criteria or rules for defining events, and accounts
for biological circumstances
What is the sick role? - Answers - the behavioural expectations of a sick person
what are the sick role rights - Answers - 1. exempt from responsibility
2. temporarily exempt from regular role responsibilities
what are the sick role duties - Answers - 1. try to get well and resume responsibilities
2. seek technically competent help and cooperate in the process of getting better
What was villermes study - Answers - first major study of workers health in France
what is precarious employment - Answers - multidimensional construct encompassing
various dimensions
what are the pathways of precarious employment - Answers - 1. exposed to health
harming conditions
2. limited control
3. social and material consequences
what is cumulative incidence - Answers - proportion who became diseased during a
specific time period
what is the formula for cumulative incidence - Answers - the number of new cases in a
time period / people at risk in the population at the beginning of the period
What province did health care start in - Answers - Saskatchewan
What year did the rest of Canada follow Saskatchewan's medicare - Answers - 1972
What year was the Canada Health Act established - Answers - 1984
What was Canada's health spending GDP in 2023 - Answers - 12.1% GDP
What percent of BC's budget is spent on health care - Answers - 43%
What percent of BC's health care spending is on hospitals - Answers - 25.6%
What percent of BC's health care spending is on drugs - Answers - 13.9%
What percent of BC's health care spending is on physicians - Answers - 13.8
What are the three largest spending categories of health care in BC - Answers -
Hospitals, drugs, and physicians
What are the five theoretical paradigms - Answers - conflict paradigm, symbolic
interactionist paradigm, feminist paradigm, sociology of the body paradigm, structural
functionalist paradigm
What is a paradigm - Answers - a framework with basic assumptions, ways of thinking,
and methodology accepted by the scientific community
What is the conflict paradigm - Answers - capitalist society with competing interest
groups and constant power struggles in a political economy
What is the symbolic interactionist paradigm - Answers - views society as a socially
constructed product of everyday interactions of individuals
What is the sociology of the body paradigm - Answers - focuses on embodiment and the
relationship between the body and society
What is the structuralist functionalist paradigm - Answers - society is a harmonious
social system made up of a number of connected parts and institutions that maintain
order and stability
what is the Feminist paradigm - Answers - comprised of diverse ways of feminist
thought focusing on historical opression of women
, What are the components of the biomedical model - Answers - mind-body dualism,
physical reductionism, machine metaphor, specific etiology, individualized regimen and
control
what is mind-body dualism - Answers - philosophical separation of the mind and body
Physical reductionism - Answers - understanding things in small parts
Specific etiology - Answers - specific diseases have specific cases, so discovering the
cause will lead to interventions, treatments, and cures
Machine metaphor - Answers - the human body is a machine in western culture
Individualized regimen and control - Answers - regimens to fight and minimize the
disease and we have personal responsibility for body care and maintenance
What are ways to measure stress? - Answers - life events and difficulties scale,
schedule of recent experiences, and biological cortisol
how do we measure stress using the life events and difficulties scale - Answers -
interview-based, explicit operational criteria or rules for defining events, and accounts
for biological circumstances
What is the sick role? - Answers - the behavioural expectations of a sick person
what are the sick role rights - Answers - 1. exempt from responsibility
2. temporarily exempt from regular role responsibilities
what are the sick role duties - Answers - 1. try to get well and resume responsibilities
2. seek technically competent help and cooperate in the process of getting better
What was villermes study - Answers - first major study of workers health in France
what is precarious employment - Answers - multidimensional construct encompassing
various dimensions
what are the pathways of precarious employment - Answers - 1. exposed to health
harming conditions
2. limited control
3. social and material consequences
what is cumulative incidence - Answers - proportion who became diseased during a
specific time period
what is the formula for cumulative incidence - Answers - the number of new cases in a
time period / people at risk in the population at the beginning of the period
