past paper

Question 1

Health behavior

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Behavior of healthy people who try to maintain their health.

Question 2

Symptom iceberg

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The majority of the symptoms people have never get medical attention.

Question 3

change in life expectancy over last 100 years

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• greater improvements for women than for men
• It were greater improvements for children and young people than for elderly.

Question 4

Illness behavior

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behavior of a person who has reason to believe that he or she is sick

Question 5

Professional socialization

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Values of the professions are internalised

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Detached concern

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Simultaneous distance from and sensitivity towards patients.

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Epidemiological transition

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• period when the importance of non-communicable diseases increases.
• disease patterns profoundly change

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Compression of morbidity

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Means that the onset of the diseases shift toward older ages

Question 9

Artifact explanation for inequalities in health argues that inequalities occur

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Due to measurement error

Question 10

Standardization is a technique for

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for calculation age specific mortality rates.

Question 11

We can measure mortality by

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life expectancy

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Indirect standardization

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Gives a result which can be expressed as percentages

Question 13

Expenditure on health care in developed countries ranges

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Between 6 and 16% of GDP

Question 14

In financing of modern health care systems, the ”third party” can be

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the government

Question 15

The ”prototypes” of health care systems, representing two polar types are

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The British and the American systems

Question 16

The notion of the local market in health care is

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That secondary and tertiary level providers of health care are competing with each other locally

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main advantage of the British health care is

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fairness

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Social roles

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• sum of total norms attached to social situations
• A set of expectations toward behavior

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Health care expenditure in most developed countries is:

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Mostly publicly financed

Question 20

In financing of modern health systems, the ”third party” is never

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An association of drug companies.

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A fund-holder general practitioner

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Is required to buy services for his/her patients.

Question 22

MEDICARE program is a

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Governmental health insurance scheme for the elderly

Question 23

In the modern industrial era mortality caused by infectious diseases declined because of

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Clean drinking water supply.

Question 24

In the pre-agricultural society one of the main causes of death was

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injury

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percentage of GDP spendt on health care in developing countries around 2009 in between:

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5% and 20%

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modern industrial disease patterns result from the shift of

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Main cause of death from epidemics to chronic diseases

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the main disadvantage of the British health system is

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being underfunded

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The main advantage of the American health is:

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The quick adaptation of new technologies

Question 29

Social roles

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A set of expectations towards behavior

Question 30

notion of ”profession” is not necessary related to

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Financing mechanism

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Epidemiological transition is a process during which

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Disease patterns profundly change

Question 32

Indirect socialisation is a hidden curriculum which does not inculde

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Superivision of sanitary conditions.

Question 33

Professional dominance or autonomy means

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Professionals determine their own standards

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The notion of “profession” is not necessary related to

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financing mechanisms