exam 1

Question 1

Positive Rights

Answer 1

Subsistence rights or welfare rights, requires some people to give up something of economic value in order to satisfy the legitimate need of others, ie education, highest attainable standard of health and access to medical services, adequate standard of living

Question 2

Negative Rights

Answer 2

Are option right or rights of forbearance, the right to be left alone, ie respect for parents to provide direction the the child in the exercise of his or her rights, legal protection against arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy family or home life

Question 3

State versus Federal rights

Answer 3

State - legal rights, removal of a neglected child from his or her home

federal- child abuse and neglect legislation, the right to a free, public education for all handicapped children, the right to a barrier-free children adolescents with disabilities.

Question 4

Industrial-Redistributive model

Answer 4

Offers universal services outside of the market economy resources are distributed according to the principle of equity based need, benefits are awarded to the people who are least well off.

Question 5

Principles of distributive justice:

Answer 5

Societies need rules for the fair allocation of resources like health care or education that requires economic resources

Question 6

What are some reasons that there is generous governmental support for the older population in Europe and the U.S.?

Answer 6

Based on the view that past social contributions of seniors entitle them to current social benefits

Question 7

List challenges to the full expression of the rights of children

Answer 7

They cannot make claims on their own behalf and it is left up to the parent or guardian to look after the child’s best interests

Question 8

Sheppard-Towner Act

Answer 8

is the maternity and infancy act which authorized grants to states if the states established a child welfare or child hygiene agency.

Question 9

The Battered Child Syndrome

Answer 9

article published in 1962 by kempe, first brought to attention possible child abuse from a parental figure at the infants home

Question 10

Medicare

Answer 10

provides coverage for short term hospitalization and medical services to the older population, financed through employment and taxes

Question 11

Medicaid

Answer 11

a program that provides insurance and assistance for the poor, involves joint federal and state financing

Question 12

WIC

Answer 12

special supplemental food program for women, infants and children. Provides supplemental food nutrition education and access to medical care.

Question 13

Head Start

Answer 13

provides an intellectually stimulation and healthy environment for preschool children in centers established for that purpose

Question 14

The Emergency Maternity and Infant Care Program (EMI)

Answer 14

with the onset of world war 2 with so many soldiers gone from home there were many wife’s left home who needed maternity care. congress approved additional funds for EMI from general revenues states were not required to match. It paid for the wives of servicemen E-4 and below

Question 15

Eligibility criteria for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, & Children

Answer 15

Low income pregnant women, nursing mothers , infants and children who are considered at nutritional risk

Question 16

Nuclear Family

Answer 16

family units consisting of parents and their children, or of childless couples
No extended family

Question 17

Extended Family

Answer 17

not considered in the nuclear family but related

Question 18

U.S. Bureau of the Census definition of low income

Answer 18

100-199% of the current poverty level,

Question 19

The child poverty rate in the U.S

Answer 19

reached 20.7% in 2009 or 15.5 million children

Question 20

List 3 significant changes in families that have resulted in shaking the foundation of families over the last 3 decades

Answer 20

Age of marriage and first child has increased, Divorce rates have gone up, both parents working, less people have health insurance

Question 21

List 3 factors responsible for the increase in the number of one-parent households in the U.S.

Answer 21

Divorce,war, sluts, whores, alcohol and drugs which lead to unwed mothers
shift in societies acceptance of unwed mothers.

Question 22

List 3 likely reasons why Hispanic children are much less likely than other children to have any form of health insurance coverage

Answer 22

Lack of awareness of eligibility, language barriers, enrollment problems and fear of repercussions for using publicly funded insurance

Question 23

The Principles of Life Course Theory

Answer 23

5 defining principles and three temporal concepts

Question 24

Principle of Life Span Development

Answer 24

Health and well being is a life long process

Question 25

Principle of Human Agency

Answer 25

calls attention to the impact of individuals decisions and actions on their health and well being

Question 26

Principle of Linked Lives

Answer 26

that our health and well being are shaped by the social networks to which we belong and particularly our relationships with significant others

Question 27

Principle of Timing

Answer 27

our health and well being are shaped not only by what happens to us but also by when in the life course it happens, how long it lasts and in what order it occurs relative to other roles and events

Question 28

Principle of Historical Time & Place

Answer 28

highlights the ways in which period, cohort, and contextual factors influence the life course

Question 29

Trajectories

Answer 29

dynamic descriptors of health and well being that typically describes a substantial period of the life span.

Question 30

Transitions

Answer 30

which are embedded within trajectories usually take place within a relatively brief time frame can result in a turning point

Question 31

Turning Points

Answer 31

defined as a redirection of the life life course through changes in situation, meaning and or behavior

Question 32

Fetal origins hypothesis

Answer 32

conceived by David Barker. Suggest that adult disease cannot be fully understood without considering early life exposures at critical or sensitive periods beginning in utero that may program the body susceptibility to adult disease outcomes

Question 33

What is the main objective of the mothers2mothers program?

Answer 33

was to assist mothers with HIV provide support and education, help the mother give birth to HIV free babies