HLTH 305 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Health Policy
Answer:
- both narrow and broad views - policies specific to the health care system -
non-health policies that still have an effect on population and individual
health
Question:
The polis in health policy
Answer:
- community of well-being - organizing around the common good - public
interest
Question:
Ideology
Answer:
a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or
political theory and policy.
Question:
Neoliberalism
Answer:
A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced
budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in
the economy.
Question:
socio-environmental paradigm
Answer:
- considered with risk conditions like poverty and low income -Health is
defined as a positive concept - concerned with people having control over
their lives -it directs attention to community and societal factors relating to
health - social supports
Question:
Behavioural/lifestyle paradigm
Answer:
- individualized concept of health - health defined in individual terms -
interventions for risk behaviours - target lifestyle changes - individuals are
responsible for maintaining their health - emphasizes prevention programs
Question:
medical paradigm
Answer:
- traditional biomedical paradigm - defines health as the absence of disease -
Disease categories are professionally defined - highlights the needs for
, professionally defined medical interventions - e.g surgery, managing risks and
symptoms - dominate paradigm
Question:
structural/critical paradigm
Answer:
- neomateralism - explicit concern with the organization of society, how do we
organize social and economic resources - unequal distribution of political
power - political ideology in shaping the organization and delivery of
healthcare - society's organization of social and economic resources - focus on
whole society
Question:
Epistemology
Answer:
study of knowledge how one wishes to understand the world
Question:
ontology
Answer:
- the form in which reality and its objects are said to exist - defines what can be
known
Question:
methodology
Answer:
tools used to acquire knowledge
Question:
Post-positivism
Answer:
- represents a rejection of a number of key tenets of positivism - share: reality
is external, knowledge is objective - considers human measurement faulty -
can't ignore researcher bias
Question:
Positivism/Rationalism
Answer:
- states only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge - relies on hypotheses
testing and establishing causal relationships - physical and biological sciences -
limitations: ignores context, reinforces individualism, focus on downstream
factors
Question:
structural functionalism
Answer:
- social theory - sees society as a balance system - societies work best when
they function as a smooth organism
Question:
Interpretivism
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Health Policy
Answer:
- both narrow and broad views - policies specific to the health care system -
non-health policies that still have an effect on population and individual
health
Question:
The polis in health policy
Answer:
- community of well-being - organizing around the common good - public
interest
Question:
Ideology
Answer:
a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or
political theory and policy.
Question:
Neoliberalism
Answer:
A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced
budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in
the economy.
Question:
socio-environmental paradigm
Answer:
- considered with risk conditions like poverty and low income -Health is
defined as a positive concept - concerned with people having control over
their lives -it directs attention to community and societal factors relating to
health - social supports
Question:
Behavioural/lifestyle paradigm
Answer:
- individualized concept of health - health defined in individual terms -
interventions for risk behaviours - target lifestyle changes - individuals are
responsible for maintaining their health - emphasizes prevention programs
Question:
medical paradigm
Answer:
- traditional biomedical paradigm - defines health as the absence of disease -
Disease categories are professionally defined - highlights the needs for
, professionally defined medical interventions - e.g surgery, managing risks and
symptoms - dominate paradigm
Question:
structural/critical paradigm
Answer:
- neomateralism - explicit concern with the organization of society, how do we
organize social and economic resources - unequal distribution of political
power - political ideology in shaping the organization and delivery of
healthcare - society's organization of social and economic resources - focus on
whole society
Question:
Epistemology
Answer:
study of knowledge how one wishes to understand the world
Question:
ontology
Answer:
- the form in which reality and its objects are said to exist - defines what can be
known
Question:
methodology
Answer:
tools used to acquire knowledge
Question:
Post-positivism
Answer:
- represents a rejection of a number of key tenets of positivism - share: reality
is external, knowledge is objective - considers human measurement faulty -
can't ignore researcher bias
Question:
Positivism/Rationalism
Answer:
- states only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge - relies on hypotheses
testing and establishing causal relationships - physical and biological sciences -
limitations: ignores context, reinforces individualism, focus on downstream
factors
Question:
structural functionalism
Answer:
- social theory - sees society as a balance system - societies work best when
they function as a smooth organism
Question:
Interpretivism
