Health, Culture and Society (Rough Guide)

Question 1

Study of culture

Answer 1

Anthropology

Question 2

Beliefs or practices transferred from one generation to another

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

Study of populations, their age composition, gender distribution and movements in population

Answer 3

Demography

Question 4

Study of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services including its allocation

Answer 4

Exonomics

Question 5

Study of topography

Answer 5

Geography

Question 6

A study of events that focuses not just about dates and places but learning from what has happened to project what might happen

Answer 6

History

Question 7

Study of language

Answer 7

Linguistics

Question 8

Study of power relations and how power is used or perceived

Answer 8

Political Science

Question 9

Study of social institutions including families, and how they shape and mold the individual

Answer 9

Sociology

Question 10

Study of mind, personality and behavior but more on the individual level

Answer 10

Psychology

Question 11

The social sciences provide tools for the following:

Answer 11

• Analyzing health and illness
• Mastering competencies and eptitude
• Developing a more critical and discerning medical science from bench to bedside

Question 12

Ecological model for analyzing health and illness that cuts across different levels for analysis

Answer 12

Bronfenbrenner’s Nested Ecological Model
or
Social Ecological Model

Question 13

Levels of Bronfenbrenner’s Nested Ecological Model

Answer 13

Micro (Interpersonal)
Meso (organizational)
Exo (Community)
Macro

Question 14

Level of analysis in the social ecological model that includes the individual and the family

Answer 14

Micro (Interpersonal)

Question 15

Level of analysis in the social ecological model that includes faith based institutions, schools where enculturation and socialization take place.

Answer 15

Meso (organizational)

Question 16

Level of analysis in the social ecological model that includes the geographical and virtual groups

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Exo (community)

Question 17

Level of analysis in the social ecological model that includes large structures such as government, faith based institutions, and mass media

Answer 17

Macro

Question 18

Factors that cut across all levels in Bronfenbrenner’s Nested Ecological Model

Answer 18

Ecological factors

History

Question 19

Being able to process all cascading information and pick up the right pieces of information to become effective in the task

Answer 19

Eptitude

Question 20

Interactions between humans and the natural environment

Answer 20

Ecological factors

Question 21

Looking into meanings and experiences, how we make sense of the world and people

Answer 21

Phenomenologic/ Interpretivist Perspectives

Question 22

Looking into how we socialize and network, how culture becomes habitus or kaugalian (meso and exo)

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Social Interactionist Perspectives

Question 23

Looks at power relations across classes and how these shape access to resources

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Political Economy

Question 24

An ongoing process by which individuals and systems respond respectfully and effectively to people of all diversity factors.

Answer 24

Cultural competence

Question 25

Centered on your own culture, judging other people’s beliefs and practices using own cultural norms and standards

Answer 25

Ethnocentrism