Midterm 1 Flashcards
What was Robert Koch’s 1882 discovery?
A. how to cure tuberculosis
B. identified the tubercle bacillus as the cause and transmissible agent of tuberculosis
C. a hospital for patients with tuberculosis
D. how to prevent tuberculosis from spreading
E. how to cure tuberculosis in children but not adults because adults have a different immune system
B. identified the tubercle bacillus as the cause and transmissible agent of tuberculosis
What did the transformation process of the Centers of Excellence in Kashmir entail? (Varma Reading)
A. Fixing the long-term patients’ residential areas to give them better accommodations.
B. Fixing up the building and landscaping to make the buildings look physically more appealing.
C. Changing psychiatrists’ treatment styles so that long-term patients could eventually become self-sufficient.
D. Doubling the number of psychiatrists so that each patient could have more sessions with their designated psychiatrist.
E. Expanding the inpatient facility so that its services were broader than the outpatient facility.
B. Fixing up the building and landscaping to make the buildings look physically more appealing.
Why is AIDS research a “clear-cut case of impure science?”
A. There were many false leads into what the disease was when the research into it finally began.
B. Initial discussions and beliefs claimed that the disease was considered to affect only certain people of a certain identity. This led to victim blaming
C. Politics, social movements, and activist communities have become experts on the subject of HIV/AIDS and wanted to be involved in how the science would deal with it.
D. There is no known cure for HIV/AIDS, but there is medication to help people live with it.
C. Politics, social movements, and activist communities have become experts on the subject of HIV/AIDS and wanted to be involved in how the science would deal with it.
According to Mendes Chapter 3, what was NOT a consequence of the Great Depression in Harlem?
A. Black people bore the brunt of the economic catastrophe during the 1930s
B. White New Yorkers were more likely than Black people in Harlem to be employed
C. People had easy access to welfare relief via the services from the New Deal during this time
D. White people were more likely to not have access to social agencies and services compared to Black communities
E. C and D
D. White people were more likely to not have access to social agencies and services compared to Black communities
Regarding the Atlanta University’s Eleventh Conference for the Study of Negro Problems, which of the following are not true?
A. Both black and white individuals attended
B. They agreed that there was no concrete evidence that proved that the black race was inferior to the white race
C. Argued that it was the differences in living conditions that drove the patterns of tuberculosis within the black community
D. Deemed that the black race were inherently more susceptible to tuberculosis based on genetics passed down from generations
E. None of the above
D. Deemed that the black race were inherently more susceptible to tuberculosis based on genetics passed down from generations
Based on the Smedley reading, do minorities (African American, Asian, Hispanic, etc) experience the same rates of disease compared to the Caucasian population in the United States?
A. Yes, since minorities in general are persistently targeted, they all have a significantly higher mortality and morbidity rate than the Caucasian population at the same rates
B. There are differences in the mortality and morbidity rates within the minority subgroups themselves
C. Minority subgroups, excluding the African American population, suffer from higher mortality rates from more specific diseases
D. The Caucasian population actually has as high mortality rates than some minorities
E. B and C
E. B and C
The epidemic of Kaposi Sarcoma in Sub-Saharan Africa was initially overlooked by Western researchers because all of these except:
A. It was considered a “Gay Cancer” not affecting the heterosexual population
B. Africa and Haiti were disproportionately represented in accounts of the global AIDS crisis, creating the notion of KS being a “foreign” disease
C. KS in Sub-Saharan Africa was thought to be of different endemic variety than “AIDS-related” KS
D. KS had already been documented and widely investigated in Sub-Saharan Africa before the AIDS epidemic
E. KS in the Western world had previously disappeared with ARV treatment.
D. KS had already been documented and widely investigated in Sub-Saharan Africa before the AIDS epidemic
In the Mendes reading, Dr. Wertham discovered in several patients a form of disordered thinking precipitated by circumstances that were experiential and social. A catathymic crisis developed in the individual through which stages?
A. Initial thinking disorders, which follow the original precipitating circumstances.
B. crystallization of a plan, when the idea of a violent act emerges into consciousness
C. extreme tension, culminating in the violent crisis, in which a violent act against oneself or others is attempted or carried out
D. superficial normality, beginning with a period of lifting of tension and calmness immediately after the violent act
E. all of the above
E. all of the above
In 1898, Physician D. H. Williams stated that 72% of all black mortality could have been prevented if only they would have:
A. been given streptomycin
B. Been provided better living conditions
C. gone to the doctor more often
D. had better health insurance
E. None of the above
B. Been provided better living conditions
Farmer Chapter 11: Which was NOT a result of the AIDS epidemic in Haiti?
A. The Island lost its tourist economy within one year.
B. A significant percentage of the AIDS-afflicted population was diagnosed with Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)
C. Haitian immigrants in the U.S were discriminated in all aspects of society, regardless of whether they had AIDS or not.
D. Their cultural practices, such as voodoo, were reasoned to be the cause of AIDS
E. Haitians were incorrectly categorized as one of the groups susceptible to AIDS, the “Four H club”: homosexuals, Haitians, hemophiliacs, heroin users
B. A significant percentage of the AIDS-afflicted population was diagnosed with Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)
Which of the following does NOT make up the IOM (Institute of Medicine) studys goals, to assess the disparities in the quality of healthcare received by US racial and ethnic minorities and non minorities?
A. Evaluate the potential sources of racial and ethnic differences in healthcare at institutional and health system levels
B. Provide ideas to eliminate these disparities
C. Implement the ideas to eliminate disparities
D. Assess the extent of racial and ethnic differences in healthcare
E. They all exist
C. Implement the ideas to eliminate disparities
Which of the following didn’t Varna advocate in the “Transcultural Psychiatry” journal in terms of addressing mental health care systems in India?
A. make mental health care more culture-based taking into consideration different beliefs and customs
B. address the manpower shortages in NMHP
C. turn psychiatric hospitals into research and training “Centres of Excellence”
D. extend mental healthcare through existing primary health care system
E. train non-specialized medical workers to diagnose and treat mental disorder at the Primary Health Center (PHC)
A. make mental health care more culture-based taking into consideration different beliefs and customs
It wasn’t until when that ‘under-representation’ of women and racial and ethnic minorities as subjects in clinical research emerged as a recognized social problem in the U.S.? (Epstein reading)
A. Early 1980s
B. Late 1980s and early 1990s
C. 1990s
D. Late 1990s and early 2000
B. Late 1980s and early 1990s
At the time which of the following did not agree with Wright’s and Wertham’s philosophy on mental health care?
A. Liberal Minded scholars
B. Military Psychiatrists
C. Jewish Psychiatrists
D. B and C
B. Military Psychiatrists
In the early 1940s, the leading cause of death among blacks, changed from _______________ to _________________, according to Roberts.
A. tuberculosis; cancer
B. tuberculosis; heart disease
C. heart disease; tuberculosis
D. cancer; tuberculosis
B. tuberculosis; heart disease
