Ch. 3 Cultural/Pharmocogenetics

Question 1

Study of drug responses unique to individual owing social, cultural, and biologic phenomena

Answer 1

Ethnopharmacology

Question 2

Integrated study of pharmocokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and variations of the predicted response to a drug due to genetic factors

Answer 2

Pharmacogenetics

Question 3

Cluster of individuals who function as a group to attain cultural universals

Answer 3

Community

Question 4

Designed to meet the community’s survival needs and common goals that maintain the group

Answer 4

Cultural universals

Question 5

Health practices used by a cultural group that may be good, bad or indifferent

Answer 5

Traditional health practices

Question 6

Plays a role in the health of 80% of global populations

Answer 6

Healer

Question 7

When a less powerful groups changes its ways to blend with a dominant culture while still maintain the own identity

Answer 7

Assimilation

Question 8

When a group adjusts to living within a dominant culture while maintaining their own identity

Answer 8

Acculturation

Question 9

Practices that combine traditional beliefs and mainstream health practices

Answer 9

Complementary Health Practices

Question 10

When a dominant groups adopts non-dominant groups health practices

Answer 10

Alternative Health Practices

Question 11

General study of all the different gens that determine drug behavior

Answer 11

Pharmacogenomics

Question 12

Complete set of chromosomse of DNA

Answer 12

Genome

Question 13

DNA variants that occur within a specific population at a frequency greater than 1%

Answer 13

Polymorphisms

Question 14

Substance that binds to and is metabolized by one or more enzymes

Answer 14

Substrate