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| According to the text and lecture, what is considered to be a problem....? |
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| What is considered to be a problem CHANGES OVER TIME |
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| A measure of an adults weight, in relation to his/her height... |
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BMI = Body Mass Index
Is an accurate measurement for most people's body fat |
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| The maps of obesity trends shown in class indicate that...? |
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This health problem has gotten worse objectively.
Public health entities have increasingly defined obesity to be problematic.
There was less missing data on the problem in 2003 than in 1985. |
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| According to lecture, sleep apnea is one consequence of obesity. Apnea is a troublesome condition because it: |
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Leads to marital strain and divorce.
Leads to cardiac arrhythmia.
Increases one’s risk of pneumonia. |
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| Prevalence (e.g., of crime, disease, etc.) is defined as: |
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| The percentage of the population with a condition or who experienced an event. |
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| A rate (e.g., of crime, disease, etc.) is defined as: |
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| The number of cases divided by the population (multiplied by some number of people – e.g., 100, 1,000, etc.). |
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| The advantage of using _____ to measure a health condition over other measures is that it best allows one can make the most accurate comparisons of the problem from place to place. |
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| According to the Henslin text, the American “fee for service” system: |
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| Increases medical costs because it encourages unnecessary procedures. |
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| American medical services are geared for __________ in an age of __________. |
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| acute illnesses; chronic disorders |
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| Which perspective argues that health care should be a basic right of ALL citizens and that illness should never be exploited for profit? |
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| Life expectancy in the U.S. is shortest in the: |
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| Medicare is a federally funded program designed to help: |
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| What factors contribute to obesity? |
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The structure of the urban and suburban environment.
Automation.
Changes in the types of jobs most people do. |
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| An indirect but useful measure of body fat. |
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| Among _____________ ,women have higher prevalence rates of being overweight than men, whereas among ____________ it is the reverse (men are more likely to be overweight than women) |
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| African Americans; Whites |
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| What factors indicate that obesity is a social problem? |
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The prevalence of obesity in an entire population shifts upward dramatically in a short period of time.
Evidence that the condition is harmful.
The proliferation of new terms to describe the condition. |
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| According to lecture notes, the percent of people that have no health insurance in the U.S.: |
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| Varies from state to state |
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| Since the 1970s, hospital costs in the U.S.: |
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| Have far exceeded rates of inflation. |
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| Physician-assisted suicide is legal in: |
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| The social status or factor that is the strongest or best predictor of body weight is: |
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| Based on recent data, globalization is likely to: |
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| Increase the spread of infectious disease |
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| The person to which many early cases of HIV were traced to was: |
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