Gynecologic Health Care
TEST BANK
Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to
Prenatal and Postpartum Care
4th Edition by Kerri Durnell Schuiling; Chapters 1 - 35
,Gynecologic Health Care
Chapter 1 A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health &
Chapter 2 Racism and Health Disparities
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
a) A person’s sex
b) A person’s sex as defined by society
c) A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
d) A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
2. Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
a) The complexity of women’s health
b) Women’s status and position in society
c) Population growth
d) The economy
3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult within Western
societies?
a) The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
b) The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
c) The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
d) Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
4. Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
a) Not having a choice
b) Not having a voice
c) An act of tyranny
d) A feeling of being burdened
5. In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective contrast
sharply with a biomedical model?
a) It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
b) It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
c) It emphasizes women’s rights.
d) It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
6. Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
a) society, biology
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b) self-representation, societal expectations
c) biology, environment and experience
d) biology, hormones
7. Women’s healt h risks, treatments, and approac hes are not always based in
science and biology because
a) t hey are often based on outdated treatments and approac hes.
b) t hey are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
c) t hey often rely on alternative treatments and approac hes.
d) scientific researc h often fails to take women into consideration.
8. Reproductive rig hts were added to t he World Healt h Organization’s human rig
hts framework in t he last ?
a) 5 years
b) 10 years
c) 20 years
d) 40 years
9. “Safe Mot her hood” was added to t he human rig hts framework in order to
a) address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
b) meet a legal obligation
c) correct an injustice
d) correct an oversig ht
10. W hat is a c hief failing of t he biomedical model in regards to women’s healt h care
a) Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
b) Its consideration of women as central t he model
c) Its emp hasis on science and medicine
d) Its limited definition of “ healt h” as “t he absence of disease”
11. T he social model of healt h places t he focus of healt h on
a) t he community.
b) t he individual.
c) environmental conditions.
d) scientific researc h.
12. W hic h question below supports t he strategy: “Identify women’s agency in t he
midst of social constraint and t he biomedical paradigm.”?
a) “Are ‘all women’ t he same?”
b) “W hy do you care about t he issue?”
c) “Are women really victims or are t hey acting wit h agency?”
d) “W ho has a c hoice wit hin t he context of healt h?”
13. W hat had been a significant problem in medical researc h well into t he 1990s?
, Gynecologic Health Care
a) T he focus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
b) T he lack of representation of women in researc h trials
TEST BANK
Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to
Prenatal and Postpartum Care
4th Edition by Kerri Durnell Schuiling; Chapters 1 - 35
,Gynecologic Health Care
Chapter 1 A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health &
Chapter 2 Racism and Health Disparities
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
a) A person’s sex
b) A person’s sex as defined by society
c) A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
d) A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
2. Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
a) The complexity of women’s health
b) Women’s status and position in society
c) Population growth
d) The economy
3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult within Western
societies?
a) The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
b) The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
c) The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
d) Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
4. Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
a) Not having a choice
b) Not having a voice
c) An act of tyranny
d) A feeling of being burdened
5. In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective contrast
sharply with a biomedical model?
a) It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
b) It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
c) It emphasizes women’s rights.
d) It opens new avenues for women’s health care.
6. Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
a) society, biology
,Gynecologic Health Care
b) self-representation, societal expectations
c) biology, environment and experience
d) biology, hormones
7. Women’s healt h risks, treatments, and approac hes are not always based in
science and biology because
a) t hey are often based on outdated treatments and approac hes.
b) t hey are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
c) t hey often rely on alternative treatments and approac hes.
d) scientific researc h often fails to take women into consideration.
8. Reproductive rig hts were added to t he World Healt h Organization’s human rig
hts framework in t he last ?
a) 5 years
b) 10 years
c) 20 years
d) 40 years
9. “Safe Mot her hood” was added to t he human rig hts framework in order to
a) address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
b) meet a legal obligation
c) correct an injustice
d) correct an oversig ht
10. W hat is a c hief failing of t he biomedical model in regards to women’s healt h care
a) Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
b) Its consideration of women as central t he model
c) Its emp hasis on science and medicine
d) Its limited definition of “ healt h” as “t he absence of disease”
11. T he social model of healt h places t he focus of healt h on
a) t he community.
b) t he individual.
c) environmental conditions.
d) scientific researc h.
12. W hic h question below supports t he strategy: “Identify women’s agency in t he
midst of social constraint and t he biomedical paradigm.”?
a) “Are ‘all women’ t he same?”
b) “W hy do you care about t he issue?”
c) “Are women really victims or are t hey acting wit h agency?”
d) “W ho has a c hoice wit hin t he context of healt h?”
13. W hat had been a significant problem in medical researc h well into t he 1990s?
, Gynecologic Health Care
a) T he focus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
b) T he lack of representation of women in researc h trials
