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Gynecologic Health Care with An Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum
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Care, 4TH Edition by Kerri Durnell Schuiling
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,Gynecologic Health Care with an Introduction to Prenatal and Postpartum Care 4th Edition Test Bank
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Chapter 1: A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health & Chapter2 Racism and Health Disparities
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MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS m
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
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1. Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
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a) A person’s sex m m
b) A person’s sex as defined by society
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c) A societal response to a person’s self-representation as a man or woman
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d) A person’s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
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2. Which factor bears most on women’s health care today?
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a) The complexity of women’s health m m m m
b) Women’s status and position in society m m m m m
c) Population growth m
d) The economy m
3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more
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difficult within Western societies?
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a) The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
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b) The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
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c) The diversity of the news media clouds the issue. m m m m m m m m
d) Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression. m m m m m
4. Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
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a) Not having a choice m m m
b) Not having a voice m m m
c) An act of tyranny m m m
d) A feeling of being burdened
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5. In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective
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contrast sharplywith a biomedical model?
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a) It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
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b) It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
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c) It emphasizes women’s rights. m m m
d) It opens new avenues for women’s health care.m m m m m m m
, 6. Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
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a) society, biology m
b) self-representation, societal expectations m m
c) biology, environment and experience m m m
d) biology, hormones m
7. Women’s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not always
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based in science and biology because
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a) they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.
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b) they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
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c) they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
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d) scientific research often fails to take women into consideration. m m m m m m m m
8. Reproductive rights were added to the World Health m m m m m m m
m Organization’s human rights framework in the last ?
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a) 5 years m
b) 10 years m
c) 20 years m
d) 40 years m
9. “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
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a) address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level m m m m m m m m
b) meet a legal obligation m m m
c) correct an injustice m m
d) correct an oversight m m
10. What is a chief failing of the biomedical model in regards to women’s health care?
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a) Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
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b) Its consideration of women as central the model
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c) Its emphasis on science and medicine
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d) Its limited definition of “health” as “the absence of disease”
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11. The social model of health places the focus of health on
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a) the community. m
b) the individual. m
c) environmental conditions. m
d) scientific research. m
12. Which question below supports the strategy: “Identify women’s
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m agency in the midst of social constraint and the biomedical paradigm.”?
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a) “Are ‘all women’ the same?” m m m m
b) “Why do you care about the issue?” m m m m m m
c) “Are women really victims or are they acting with agency?”
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, d) “Who has a choice within the context of health?”
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13. What had been a significant problem in medical research well into the 1990s?
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a) The focus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
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b) The lack of representation of women in research trials
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c) The lack of research related to gynecology
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d) The focus on randomized clinical trials over observational research
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14. Gender differences in heart disease can be found in
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a) diagnosis.
b) treatment.
c) identification of symptoms. m m
d) all of the above.
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15. What opportunities are created by applying feminist strategies to gynecologic health?
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a) Better insight into research methods related to gynecology
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b) Better access to the populations affected by gynecologic health
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c) Better understandings from a wellness-oriented, women-centered framework
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d) Better understandings of the social construction of gender
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ANSWER KEY
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MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
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16. c
17. b
18. d
19. a
20. b
21. c
22. b
23. c
24. a
25. d