BBH 302 Exam 1 Questions and Answers New (2024/2025) Solved 100% Correct

_________ is the major root cause of health disparities in the Appalachia region as highlighted in A Hidden America. - poverty, rurality, & lack of opportunity a county/counties associated with at least one urban cluster of at least 10,000 and less than 50,000 inhabitants - micropolitan statistical area a county/counties associated with at least one urbanized area. they are larger than cities and are sometimes referred to as regions - metropolitan statistical area a physician in Place Matters movie referred to a friend who treated 10 to 10 teenage girls who had their gall bladder removed. what was the major factor that led to the girls needing this surgery? - eating a diet high in fast food according to "In Sickness and in Wealth" one of the sociologists in the film discussed government policies that, once instituted, improved the health of the nation. he stated that economic policy is HEALTH policy. - true all areas outside of an urban area or cluster - rural area although tobacco, alcohol and fast food are easy to find in Gwai's neighborhood, the narrator in Place Matters stated that the release of toxins from petrochemical is the worst environmental health threat. - false an area with at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people - urban cluster an areas with a core population of 50,000+ inhabitants - urban area an indicator of wealth that refers to cash flow and assets, minus liabilities/debts - net worthbased on a statement Dr. Marmot made in Not Just a Paycheck made on the health-wealth gradient, we can conclude that unemployment could influence illness AND illness could influence unemployment. - true based on what was discussed in the Not Just a Paycheck, the main reason for jobs leaving the US is: - the transfer of work to low wage countries compared to black neighborhoods with low levels of segregation, the rates of the following are higher in blacks in highly-segregated neighborhoods: - prostate cancer CVD adverse birth outcomes physical inactivity cigarette smoking describes any kind of discrimination against another person because of a particular characteristic - "isms" Dr. Brenner in Not Just a Paycheck stated that there is an association between unemployment and health, and that changes usually occur over a _______ period. - 10 year Dr. Williams in Place Matters talked about health policy. select all of the following that he referred to as health policy: - housing policy educational policy anti-violence poly neighborhood improvement policy examine the map showing the ways in which each group is distributed across the US. based on the definition of dissimilarity (distribution of a racial/ethnic group across a residential area) which group is most segregated? - non-hispanic whites falling off the cliff for chronic lower respiratory disease - children developing asthmafor a majority of diseases and conditions that were reviewed in this lesson, there was a stair-step association between health and measures of SES. for which disease was this stair-step pattern NOT seen? - cancer for the association between children's health and SES, which measures were most commonly used to assess SES? - parent's income & education having access to chain supermarkets increases one's access to fruits and vegetables at lower prices. - true health DISPARITIES have an ethical root cause - true health INEQUITIES have an ethical root cause - true historically disadvantaged groups in the US that have been placed in the margins of society due to skin color, language, income, education, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, etc. - marginalized populations how do the authors in Braveman et al. suggest correcting health disparities? - implementing social policies on the local, state & federal levels how many yearly excess deaths in minority population were found in the Heckler report? - 60,000 in "In Sickness and in Wealth" what is the name of the landmark study that showed that there was a social gradient in health? - whitehall study in Sweden, the association between health and wealth is most likely TIGHT. that is, they likely see a similar health-wealth gradient that we see here in the US. - false