HSC4579 (Women's Health Issues) Exam 1
questions with verified answers
Nutritional and weight gain recommendations for pregnancy and exercise concerns with
pregnancy - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-Consume additional 100 calories/day
during 1st trimester
-Consume additional 300 calories/day 2nd‐3rd trimester
-Folic acid
-Calcium
-Iron
-Increase fluid intake
-Weight gain: Average 25-35 pounds total
-exercise benefits: feel better, shorter labor, quicker recovery
-Forms of exercise 1st Trimester Ultrasound tests and blood tests to detect Down Syndrome
and trisomy 18 2nd Trimester Multiple marker screening Detailed ultrasound exams
: swimming, walking, low-impact aerobics, Kegel exercises
Women's Health Movement - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-began in the 1830's
and 1840's
-women began advocating taking an active role in preventing disease and staying healthy
rather than relying on formally trained physicians for treatment
-1st wave focused on eating a proper diet, the elimination of the corset, and periodic sexual
abstinence to control family size
-a few middle-class women sought entry into the medical profession (Elizabeth Blackwell)
-Women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY-1848)
,Feminism - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-the idea that women should have the
same political, economic, and social rights and opportunities as men
Feminist Movement - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-1st wave began in the late
19th and early 20th centuries (secure basic rights for women-right to vote, own property)
- 2nd wave occurred In 1960s and 1970s ( fought for reproductive freedom, equal pay, equal
access to jobs and education)
-3rd wave began in late 1980s and early 1990s (addressed domestic violence, access to safe
and legal abortions, and sexual harassment)
Women's Right to Vote - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-19th Amendment
(1920)
-Progressive Era 1890's-1920's
Women and the workforce post World War 2 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-by
end of the war 18 million women were employed
-women began receiving more pay and worked in a greater variety of positions
-end of war: women pressured to leave their jobs and return to being homemakers
Family and Medical Leave Act - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-1993
-gives employees unpaid medical leave for themselves or for the care of a family member or
a newborn or adopted infant
NIH Revitalization Act in regards to women's health - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔-1993
-required women and minorities be included as subjects in all human subject research
funded by NIH
-broadened the scientific knowledge base necessary for developing sex-specific diagnostic
techniques, preventive measures, and effective treatments for diseases and conditions
affecting women throughout their life span
, Title X Program - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-provides funding to millions of
people for reproductive health and family planning services
Clinical trials and the various phases - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-Phase I: A
new drug is tested in a small group (20-80) of healthy volunteers to evaluate its safety,
determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects
-Phase II: The study is given to a larger group (100-300) of people to further evaluate its
safety and effectiveness.
-Phase III: The study drug is given to large groups (1000-3000) in clinics and hospitals to
confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, and compare it with other treatments
-Phase IV: The study done after the drug is marketed to continue collecting information
regarding the drug's effects in various populations
Third-party payer system - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-individuals do not pay
directly for the delivery of care
- many have health insurance, which, in return for a monthly or yearly payment called a
premium plus a copayment and /or deductible, provides coverage for health related goods
and services
-employees-->(premium)-->payers/insurers-->(money)--> providers--> (services)--
>employees
Fee-for-service - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-aka indemnity
-insurers reimbursed hospitals based on a list of charges for services rendered.
managed care - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-introduced as a method to
control costs by changing how the delivery of care is coordinate and how health care is
reimbursed
-requires patients to go to specific providers and have access to care only when certain
criteria are met
questions with verified answers
Nutritional and weight gain recommendations for pregnancy and exercise concerns with
pregnancy - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-Consume additional 100 calories/day
during 1st trimester
-Consume additional 300 calories/day 2nd‐3rd trimester
-Folic acid
-Calcium
-Iron
-Increase fluid intake
-Weight gain: Average 25-35 pounds total
-exercise benefits: feel better, shorter labor, quicker recovery
-Forms of exercise 1st Trimester Ultrasound tests and blood tests to detect Down Syndrome
and trisomy 18 2nd Trimester Multiple marker screening Detailed ultrasound exams
: swimming, walking, low-impact aerobics, Kegel exercises
Women's Health Movement - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-began in the 1830's
and 1840's
-women began advocating taking an active role in preventing disease and staying healthy
rather than relying on formally trained physicians for treatment
-1st wave focused on eating a proper diet, the elimination of the corset, and periodic sexual
abstinence to control family size
-a few middle-class women sought entry into the medical profession (Elizabeth Blackwell)
-Women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY-1848)
,Feminism - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-the idea that women should have the
same political, economic, and social rights and opportunities as men
Feminist Movement - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-1st wave began in the late
19th and early 20th centuries (secure basic rights for women-right to vote, own property)
- 2nd wave occurred In 1960s and 1970s ( fought for reproductive freedom, equal pay, equal
access to jobs and education)
-3rd wave began in late 1980s and early 1990s (addressed domestic violence, access to safe
and legal abortions, and sexual harassment)
Women's Right to Vote - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-19th Amendment
(1920)
-Progressive Era 1890's-1920's
Women and the workforce post World War 2 - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-by
end of the war 18 million women were employed
-women began receiving more pay and worked in a greater variety of positions
-end of war: women pressured to leave their jobs and return to being homemakers
Family and Medical Leave Act - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-1993
-gives employees unpaid medical leave for themselves or for the care of a family member or
a newborn or adopted infant
NIH Revitalization Act in regards to women's health - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔-1993
-required women and minorities be included as subjects in all human subject research
funded by NIH
-broadened the scientific knowledge base necessary for developing sex-specific diagnostic
techniques, preventive measures, and effective treatments for diseases and conditions
affecting women throughout their life span
, Title X Program - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-provides funding to millions of
people for reproductive health and family planning services
Clinical trials and the various phases - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-Phase I: A
new drug is tested in a small group (20-80) of healthy volunteers to evaluate its safety,
determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects
-Phase II: The study is given to a larger group (100-300) of people to further evaluate its
safety and effectiveness.
-Phase III: The study drug is given to large groups (1000-3000) in clinics and hospitals to
confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, and compare it with other treatments
-Phase IV: The study done after the drug is marketed to continue collecting information
regarding the drug's effects in various populations
Third-party payer system - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-individuals do not pay
directly for the delivery of care
- many have health insurance, which, in return for a monthly or yearly payment called a
premium plus a copayment and /or deductible, provides coverage for health related goods
and services
-employees-->(premium)-->payers/insurers-->(money)--> providers--> (services)--
>employees
Fee-for-service - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-aka indemnity
-insurers reimbursed hospitals based on a list of charges for services rendered.
managed care - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-introduced as a method to
control costs by changing how the delivery of care is coordinate and how health care is
reimbursed
-requires patients to go to specific providers and have access to care only when certain
criteria are met
