SDOH TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the approximate global population currently? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅8 billion
The social determinants of health include all of the following: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-
Socioeconomic status
- discrimination
- working conditions
The social determinants of health have little impact on outcome measures such as life expectancy and
infant mortality. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅False
Evidence supports that the causes of starting to smoke are primarily social. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅True
Currently smoking is mainly found in which socioeconomic group? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Lower
socioeconomic class
The Biomedical Model is based on the premise that every disease has a - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Specific pathogenic origin
Three stages of epidemiological transition theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Age of Pestilence and
Famine, Age of Receding Epidemics, Age of degenerative and man-made diseases
Fourth unnamed stage of epidemiological transition theory- factors that are currently driving disease for
this stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- New and re-emerging infectious diseases
- delayed degenerative diseases with aging
- unhealthy lifestyle behaviors
The social gradient of hierarchies in societies when studies have consistently shown that - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅The health is better at the top of the social gradient
, The book defines epigenetic as the study of the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes of
cells. Research in this area has recognized that social factors can change the body's: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Biological function
Being chronically disadvantaged, such as those in lower socioeconomic levels seem to trigger cell aging
prematurely - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅True
Which are the following are true of HIV/AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Decolonization
- global trade and wars in Africa were instrumental in the spread of HIV
- currently in the US the most affected population is African Americans
- around the world there are social patterns of HIV/AIDS that show populations of lower socioeconomic
status are most affected
Fundamental cause theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Social variable influences multiple diseases,
social variable affects diseases through multiple pathways of risk
- the tie is reproduced over time
- involves access to resources that can be used to avoid risks or decrease the effects of the disease if it
occurs
Social support and having control over one's life are social factors considered in fundamental cause
theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅True
Fundamental cause theory supports the idea that societal interventions for a community may result in
more significant positive health outcomes than interventions focused on individual behaviors - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅True
Sociological theory is important because - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Provides explanatory models of
the social processes producing specific health outcomes
- allow conceptualization of social realities
- establishes ways to analyze information
What is the approximate global population currently? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅8 billion
The social determinants of health include all of the following: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-
Socioeconomic status
- discrimination
- working conditions
The social determinants of health have little impact on outcome measures such as life expectancy and
infant mortality. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅False
Evidence supports that the causes of starting to smoke are primarily social. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅True
Currently smoking is mainly found in which socioeconomic group? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Lower
socioeconomic class
The Biomedical Model is based on the premise that every disease has a - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Specific pathogenic origin
Three stages of epidemiological transition theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Age of Pestilence and
Famine, Age of Receding Epidemics, Age of degenerative and man-made diseases
Fourth unnamed stage of epidemiological transition theory- factors that are currently driving disease for
this stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- New and re-emerging infectious diseases
- delayed degenerative diseases with aging
- unhealthy lifestyle behaviors
The social gradient of hierarchies in societies when studies have consistently shown that - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅The health is better at the top of the social gradient
, The book defines epigenetic as the study of the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes of
cells. Research in this area has recognized that social factors can change the body's: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Biological function
Being chronically disadvantaged, such as those in lower socioeconomic levels seem to trigger cell aging
prematurely - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅True
Which are the following are true of HIV/AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Decolonization
- global trade and wars in Africa were instrumental in the spread of HIV
- currently in the US the most affected population is African Americans
- around the world there are social patterns of HIV/AIDS that show populations of lower socioeconomic
status are most affected
Fundamental cause theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Social variable influences multiple diseases,
social variable affects diseases through multiple pathways of risk
- the tie is reproduced over time
- involves access to resources that can be used to avoid risks or decrease the effects of the disease if it
occurs
Social support and having control over one's life are social factors considered in fundamental cause
theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅True
Fundamental cause theory supports the idea that societal interventions for a community may result in
more significant positive health outcomes than interventions focused on individual behaviors - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅True
Sociological theory is important because - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Provides explanatory models of
the social processes producing specific health outcomes
- allow conceptualization of social realities
- establishes ways to analyze information
