HLWB105 EXAM PREP UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

HLWB105 EXAM PREP UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. biomedical model
Answer:
assumes that the body is separate from psychological and social processes of the mind

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2. WHO 1984 definition of health
Answer:
a complete state of physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity

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3. Marks et al 2018 definition of health
Answer:
health is a state of well being with satisfaction of physical, cultural, psychological, economic and spiritual
needs, not simply the absence of illness

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4. 5 levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Answer:
self-actualization, esteem, love/belonging, safety, physiological

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5. What does Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs miss
Answer:
agency autonomy spirituality

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6. biopsychosocial model
Answer:
health and illness arise from the interplay of biological, psychological and social factors.

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7. issue with health psychology
Answer:
the dominant ideology that makes individual's responsible for their own health

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8. what does cross cultural psychology emphasize?
Answer:
cultural diversity

, Question:
9. what is cultural psychology skeptical about?
Answer:
the ethnocentrism of contemporary psychology

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10. there is a strong gradient in measures of inequality to conclude that the poorer you are the.....
Answer:
the lower your education more deprived your neighborhood is more likely you'll die young

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11. what is the inverse care law
Answer:
The availability of medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population

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12. Systemic Discrimination
Answer:
patterns of behavior, policies or practices that are part of the structures of an organization, create or
perpetuate disadvantage for racialized persons

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13. health selection hypothesis
Answer:
the poor get sick, not the sick get poor

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14. are risk factors shaped by the social environment?
Answer:
yes

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15. materialist or political economy hypothesis
Answer:
lack of material access causes sickness

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16. how many people approx in poverty are killed by diseases per year?
Answer:
14 million

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17. what are the three primary diseases of poverty?
Answer:
HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis