Chapter 1 A Feminist Perspective of Women's Health & Chapter 2 Racism and Health Disparities
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Select the one correct answer to
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• Which of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
• A person‟s sex
• A person‟s sex as defined by society
• A societal response to a person‟s self-representation as a man or woman
• A person‟s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
• Which factor bears most on women‟s health care today?
• The complexity of women‟s health
• Women‟s status and position in society
• Population growth
• The economy
• Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult within Western societies?
• The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
• The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
• The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
• Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression.
• Which of the following most accurately defines “oppression” as used in the text?
• Not having a choice
• Not having a voice
• An act of tyranny
• A feeling of being burdened
• In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective contrast sharply with a biomedical model?
• It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
• It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
• It emphasizes women‟s rights.
• It opens new avenues for women‟s health care.
• Gender is rooted in and shaped by .
• society, biology
• self-representation, societal expectations
• biology, environment and experience
• biology, hormones
• Women‟s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not always based in science and biology because
• they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.
• they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
• they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
• scientific research often fails to take women into consideration.
• Reproductive rights were added to the World Health Organization‟s human rights framework in the last ?
• 5 years
• 10 years
• 20 years
• 40 years
• “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
• address maternal morbidity and mortality on a global level
• meet a legal obligation
• correct an injustice
• correct an oversight
• What is a chief failing of the biomedical model in regards to women‟s health care?
• Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
• Its consideration of women as central the model
• Its emphasis on science and medicine
• Its limited definition of “health” as “the absence of disease”
• The social model of health places [Show Less]