SOC 300 final ACTUAL UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
At what age does Medicare start paying for health care? - CORRECT ANSWER - 65
The coronavirus of 2020 impacted groups unequally, based on race, ethnicity, and class. -
CORRECT ANSWER - True
Traditionally, who helped women deliver babies before doctors? - CORRECT ANSWER -
midwives
According to your textbook, which group is most likely to be uninsured in the U.S.? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Latinx
This word refers to the social institution that seeks to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness and to
promote health in its various dimensions. - CORRECT ANSWER - medicine
The extent of a person's physical, mental, and social well-being is the definition of? - CORRECT
ANSWER - health
Which of the following are poor people more likely to do than wealthy people? - CORRECT
ANSWER - avoid exercise, smoke, eat high fat food, be overweight
If one social group has more health problems than other groups, this is called a: - CORRECT
ANSWER - health disparity
What would NOT be considered part of the "sick role"? - CORRECT ANSWER - have the
government pay the costs
, Poor people exhibit more mental health problems than richer people. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Social class disparities in health exist even in countries that provide free national health care. -
CORRECT ANSWER - True
About what percent of Americans are uninsured? - CORRECT ANSWER - 10%
The functionalist approach believes that good health care is essential because ill health -
CORRECT ANSWER - impairs our ability to perform, hurts society, is a poor return to
society, is dysfunctional for society
In what state is the so called "cancer alley"? - CORRECT ANSWER - Louisiana
Conflict theory believes which of the following are examples of a problem becoming
"medicalized" to enrich doctors? - CORRECT ANSWER - eating disorders, criticism of
alternative medicine, AD/HD,
obstetrical care
Infant mortality refers to a child dying before reaching the age of: - CORRECT ANSWER -1
year
According to the text, a frequent complaint about national health care are issues with: -
CORRECT ANSWER - waits for elective surgery
What would NOT be considered part of our social background? - CORRECT ANSWER -
weight
The US has the largest health care spending per capita in the industrial world. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Questions and CORRECT Answers
At what age does Medicare start paying for health care? - CORRECT ANSWER - 65
The coronavirus of 2020 impacted groups unequally, based on race, ethnicity, and class. -
CORRECT ANSWER - True
Traditionally, who helped women deliver babies before doctors? - CORRECT ANSWER -
midwives
According to your textbook, which group is most likely to be uninsured in the U.S.? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Latinx
This word refers to the social institution that seeks to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness and to
promote health in its various dimensions. - CORRECT ANSWER - medicine
The extent of a person's physical, mental, and social well-being is the definition of? - CORRECT
ANSWER - health
Which of the following are poor people more likely to do than wealthy people? - CORRECT
ANSWER - avoid exercise, smoke, eat high fat food, be overweight
If one social group has more health problems than other groups, this is called a: - CORRECT
ANSWER - health disparity
What would NOT be considered part of the "sick role"? - CORRECT ANSWER - have the
government pay the costs
, Poor people exhibit more mental health problems than richer people. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
Social class disparities in health exist even in countries that provide free national health care. -
CORRECT ANSWER - True
About what percent of Americans are uninsured? - CORRECT ANSWER - 10%
The functionalist approach believes that good health care is essential because ill health -
CORRECT ANSWER - impairs our ability to perform, hurts society, is a poor return to
society, is dysfunctional for society
In what state is the so called "cancer alley"? - CORRECT ANSWER - Louisiana
Conflict theory believes which of the following are examples of a problem becoming
"medicalized" to enrich doctors? - CORRECT ANSWER - eating disorders, criticism of
alternative medicine, AD/HD,
obstetrical care
Infant mortality refers to a child dying before reaching the age of: - CORRECT ANSWER -1
year
According to the text, a frequent complaint about national health care are issues with: -
CORRECT ANSWER - waits for elective surgery
What would NOT be considered part of our social background? - CORRECT ANSWER -
weight
The US has the largest health care spending per capita in the industrial world. - CORRECT
ANSWER - True
