TEST BANK
Gynecologic Health Care: With an Introduction to
Prenatal and Postpartum Care
4th Edition by Kerri Durnell Schuiling; Chapters 1 - 35
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Chapter 1 A Beminist Perspective ob Women's Health &
Chapter 2 Racism and Health Disparities
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to each ob the bollowing questions.
1. Which ob the bollowing best debines the term “gender” as used in this text?
a) A person’s sex
b) A person’s sex as debined by society
c) A societal response to a person’s selb-representation as a man or woman
d) A person’s biological presentation as debined by himselb or herselb
2. Which bactor bears most on women’s health care today?
a) The complexity ob women’s health
b) Women’s status and position in society
c) Population growth
d) The economy
3. Why is acknowledging the oppression ob women more dibbicult within
Western societies?
a) The multiplicity ob minority groups complicates the issue.
b) The availability ob health care makes acknowledgment more dibbicult.
c) The diversity ob the news media clouds the issue.
d) Abbluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
4. Which ob the bollowing most accurately debines “oppression” as used in the text?
a) Not having a choice
b) Not having a voice
c) An act ob tyranny
d) A beeling ob being burdened
5. In what way does a model ob care based on a beminist perspective contrast
sharply with a biomedical model?
a) It provides a borum bor the exploration ob gender issues.
b) It seeks equal distribution ob power within the healthcare interaction.
c) It emphasizes women’s rights.
d) It opens new avenues bor women’s health care.
6. Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
a) society, biology
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b) selb-representation, societal expectations
c) biology, environment and experience
d) biology, hormones
7. Women’s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not always based in science
and biology because
a) they are obten based on outdated treatments and approaches.
b) they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
c) they obten rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
d) scientibic research obten bails to take women into consideration.
8. Reproductive rights were added to the World Health Organization’s human rights
bramework in the last ?
a) 5 years
b) 10 years
c) 20 years
d) 40 years
9. “Sabe Motherhood” was added to the human rights bramework in order to
a) address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
b) meet a legal obligation
c) correct an injustice
d) correct an oversight
10. What is a chieb bailing ob the biomedical model in regards to women’s health care?
a) Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively ob males
b) Its consideration ob women as central the model
c) Its emphasis on science and medicine
d) Its limited debinition ob “health” as “the absence ob disease”
11. The social model ob health places the bocus ob health on
a) the community.
b) the individual.
c) environmental conditions.
d) scientibic research.
12. Which question below supports the strategy: “Identiby women’s agency in the midst
ob social constraint and the biomedical paradigm.”?
a) “Are ‘all women’ the same?”
b) “Why do you care about the issue?”
c) “Are women really victims or are they acting with agency?”
d) “Who has a choice within the context ob health?”
13. What had been a signibicant problem in medical research well into the 1990s?
a) The bocus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
b) The lack ob representation ob women in research trials