HLTH 334 (WOMEN'S HEALTH)- EXAM 1 Questions With Verified Answers

why do we have a women's health course but not a male health course? - ANSWER-because generally speaking the medical model is male, human chemistry and physiology were male until proven otherwise whats the population for men? - ANSWER-49.1% what is the population for women? - ANSWER-50.9% in general when the mother is not healthy or they are ill that means the family - ANSWER-will not be healthy as well between 1830 and 1840... - ANSWER-popular health movement between 1861 and 1865... - ANSWER-civil war between 1873 and 1890s... - ANSWER-womens medical movement womens medical movement did what 2 things? - ANSWER--first training school for nurses -women attending medical schools who was the first women to get a MD in united states in 1849, was responsible for opening of several medical schools for women in mid-1800s - ANSWER-elizabeth blackwell who led a national effort to organize a nursing corps to car for the war's wounded and sick - ANSWER-Dorothea Dix Clara Barton during the time of progressive era, this girl pushed to legalize birth control. -1916 opened up the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and was arrested shortly afterward for violating a federal ban on contraception -was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days of labor; however in the appeal a judge legalized contraception--- but only for married couples with doctor perscription - ANSWER-margaret sanger 1890s to 1920s - ANSWER-progressive era what happened during progressive era - ANSWER--women can vote (19th amendment-1920)