HSCI 130 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
- 2027
What are the relationship among social network, social support, and
health? - ANSWERS-Social support is recognized as a non-medical
determinant of health and wellbeing. Social networks are particularly
helpful in buffering stressful events and their potential effect on
psychological health and possibly physical illness.
What are different forms of social support? - ANSWERS--
Instrumental support (help with housework, banking, transportation,
other daily living activities)
-Emotional support (having companions with that you can share
feelings with)
-Informational support (advice, suggestions, and other information
offered by social network members to make critical decision about
appropriate healthcare activities)
iceberg of healthcare - ANSWERS-People usually revert to self care
practices before seeking professional medical care. Self care is our
predominant form of health care.
What are the features of lay conceptions of good health that
emphasize positive aspects - ANSWERS-
,What are the assumptions behind common lay beliefs about illness? -
ANSWERS-
What is the relationship between lay beliefs about illness causation
and controllability - ANSWERS-health belief model
In what way is the major ideas that characterize the biomedical
model? - ANSWERS-Mind Body Dualism
Reductionism
Specific Etiology
machine metaphor
regimen and control
Mindbody dualism - ANSWERS-philosophical separation of mind
and body- rationale for focusing solely on the individual biophysical
body as a way to understand health and illness while overlooking
other determinants of health
physical reductionism - ANSWERS-an approach to understanding the
world that breaks phenomena into smaller and smaller parts in order
to understand them
specific etiology - ANSWERS-each disease has a particular cause and
discovering the cause will lead to treatment and a cure
, machine metaphor - ANSWERS-human body as a biological machine
made of biophysical processes
regimen and control - ANSWERS-disease can be voided, combined or
minimized through regimen and control
In what way the current formal health-care system actually a "sick
care system" that promotes the medicalization of life? - ANSWERS-
Medicalization process enabled the profession of medicine to claim
control over anything that can be labelled as illness, regardless of its
ability to deal with it effectively.
How has health and illness been socially constructed by symbolic
interaction? - ANSWERS-A symbolic interactionalist approach to
understanding the interpersonal meanings of health and illness
emphasizes the subjective processes by which beliefs help us to give
personal meaning to health and to the social experience of illness.
Describe the dominance of the medical profession in the formal
healthcare system. - ANSWERS-
In what ways is making society and people healthy is a shared
responsibility? - ANSWERS-Achieving health and wellness requires a
coordinated approach to population health promotion. Responsibility
is shared among
a) individuals, their families, communities; self-health management,
health conciousness
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
- 2027
What are the relationship among social network, social support, and
health? - ANSWERS-Social support is recognized as a non-medical
determinant of health and wellbeing. Social networks are particularly
helpful in buffering stressful events and their potential effect on
psychological health and possibly physical illness.
What are different forms of social support? - ANSWERS--
Instrumental support (help with housework, banking, transportation,
other daily living activities)
-Emotional support (having companions with that you can share
feelings with)
-Informational support (advice, suggestions, and other information
offered by social network members to make critical decision about
appropriate healthcare activities)
iceberg of healthcare - ANSWERS-People usually revert to self care
practices before seeking professional medical care. Self care is our
predominant form of health care.
What are the features of lay conceptions of good health that
emphasize positive aspects - ANSWERS-
,What are the assumptions behind common lay beliefs about illness? -
ANSWERS-
What is the relationship between lay beliefs about illness causation
and controllability - ANSWERS-health belief model
In what way is the major ideas that characterize the biomedical
model? - ANSWERS-Mind Body Dualism
Reductionism
Specific Etiology
machine metaphor
regimen and control
Mindbody dualism - ANSWERS-philosophical separation of mind
and body- rationale for focusing solely on the individual biophysical
body as a way to understand health and illness while overlooking
other determinants of health
physical reductionism - ANSWERS-an approach to understanding the
world that breaks phenomena into smaller and smaller parts in order
to understand them
specific etiology - ANSWERS-each disease has a particular cause and
discovering the cause will lead to treatment and a cure
, machine metaphor - ANSWERS-human body as a biological machine
made of biophysical processes
regimen and control - ANSWERS-disease can be voided, combined or
minimized through regimen and control
In what way the current formal health-care system actually a "sick
care system" that promotes the medicalization of life? - ANSWERS-
Medicalization process enabled the profession of medicine to claim
control over anything that can be labelled as illness, regardless of its
ability to deal with it effectively.
How has health and illness been socially constructed by symbolic
interaction? - ANSWERS-A symbolic interactionalist approach to
understanding the interpersonal meanings of health and illness
emphasizes the subjective processes by which beliefs help us to give
personal meaning to health and to the social experience of illness.
Describe the dominance of the medical profession in the formal
healthcare system. - ANSWERS-
In what ways is making society and people healthy is a shared
responsibility? - ANSWERS-Achieving health and wellness requires a
coordinated approach to population health promotion. Responsibility
is shared among
a) individuals, their families, communities; self-health management,
health conciousness
