Chapter 13 – Health & Health Care Flashcards
What approach emphasizes that good health and effective health care are essential for a society’s ability to function, and it views the physician-patient relationship as hierarchical?
Functionalist
What approach emphasizes inequality in the quality of health & health care?
Conflict
What approach emphasizes that health & illness are social constructions. Physical & mental conditions have little or no objective reality, but instead are considered healthy or ill conditions only if a society defines them & its members?
Interactionist
What is the best approach to health, is to prevent illness before it begins?
Preventative care
What is a team of health care professionals who coordinate care for chronically ill patients?
Integrated care
What has improved health in the U.S. over the last century?
Better public sanitation and the discovery of antibiotics
What % of households are food insecure?
14.5
Americans whose family incomes are more than four times the federal poverty level live an average of how many years longer than those living in poverty?
6.5
What is the life expectancy of black people?
73.6
What is the life expectancy of white people?
78.4
What sex has more health problems?
Women
What sex has more life-threatening diseases?
Men
Are the poor or rich more likely to suffer from mental health problems?
Poor
Is there a clear connection between race/ethnicity & mental illness?
No
Women have higher rates of what two metal illnesses?
Manic-depressive disorder and serious depression
