SOC109 CHAPTER 14 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE - Answer healthcare aims to avoid onset of disease by taking
preventive measures, often including lifestyle changes
MEDICINE - Answer social construct
TYPES OF ILNESSES - Answer acute disease, chronic disease
ACCUTE DISEASES - Answer sudden onset, may be brief incapacitating and are either curable
or fatal; can be contagious - HIV
CHRONIC DISEASES - Answer developed over long period of time, may not be detected until
symptoms occur later in their progression - can be related to lifestyles, choices - EMPHIZEMA
MEDICAL TREATMENT - Answer curative/crisis, preventive, palliative care
CURATIVE/CRISIS MEDICINE - Answer healthcare that treats the disease or condition once it
has manifested - antibiotics, niacom, inhaler
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE - Answer healthcare aims to avoid or forestall onset of disease by
making lifestyle changes - inhaler, diet, exercise
PALLIATIVE CARE - Answer healthcare focuses on symptom/pain relief and provides
supportive environment rather than fighting - morphine
MEDICALIZATION - Answer social construction - process by which some behaviors or
conditions that were once seen as personal problems are redefined as medical issues -
infertility, ptsd, obesity
EPIDEMIOLOGY - Answer study of disease patterns to understand the cause of illnesses, how
they are spread and what interventions to take
EPIDEMIC - Answer disease pattern - occurs when significantly higher number of cases of a
particular disease occur during a particular time period than otherwise expected - H1N1 , swine
flu
AND ANSWERS.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE - Answer healthcare aims to avoid onset of disease by taking
preventive measures, often including lifestyle changes
MEDICINE - Answer social construct
TYPES OF ILNESSES - Answer acute disease, chronic disease
ACCUTE DISEASES - Answer sudden onset, may be brief incapacitating and are either curable
or fatal; can be contagious - HIV
CHRONIC DISEASES - Answer developed over long period of time, may not be detected until
symptoms occur later in their progression - can be related to lifestyles, choices - EMPHIZEMA
MEDICAL TREATMENT - Answer curative/crisis, preventive, palliative care
CURATIVE/CRISIS MEDICINE - Answer healthcare that treats the disease or condition once it
has manifested - antibiotics, niacom, inhaler
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE - Answer healthcare aims to avoid or forestall onset of disease by
making lifestyle changes - inhaler, diet, exercise
PALLIATIVE CARE - Answer healthcare focuses on symptom/pain relief and provides
supportive environment rather than fighting - morphine
MEDICALIZATION - Answer social construction - process by which some behaviors or
conditions that were once seen as personal problems are redefined as medical issues -
infertility, ptsd, obesity
EPIDEMIOLOGY - Answer study of disease patterns to understand the cause of illnesses, how
they are spread and what interventions to take
EPIDEMIC - Answer disease pattern - occurs when significantly higher number of cases of a
particular disease occur during a particular time period than otherwise expected - H1N1 , swine
flu
