Health Care MCQs
Health Care MCQs
Try to answer these 50 Health Care MCQs and check your understanding of the Health Care subject. Scroll down and let's begin!
1: What social characteristic is correlated with body weight?
A. Religion
B. Social class
C. Political party affiliation
D. Education level
2: Which of the following is true about home healthcare workers?
A. All have the protection of the guaranteed minimum wage.
B. All have standard benefit packages.
C. Some lack guaranteed overtime pay.
D. Less than half of home health care workers are women.
3: White women are much more likely to die from breast cancer than Black women.
A. True
B. False
4: Which of the following is true of the institution of medicine?
A. Medicine was not an institutionalized discipline until the 20th century.
B. Medical doctors have always worked in conjunction with traditional healers.
C. The establishment of the American Medical Association was an attempt to legitimize medical doctors.
D. Medicine as an institution did not play a significant role in justifying Jim Crow laws.
5: ______ experience the lowest number of pre-term births while ______ experience the most.
A. Hispanics; American Indian
B. American Indians; Non-Hispanic Blacks
C. Non-Hispanic Whites; Non-Hispanic Blacks
D. Non-Hispanic Whites; Asians or Pacific Islanders
6: Which of the following is true of traditional healers?
A. They have not contributed to our current understanding of medicine.
B. The WHO recognizes their importance.
C. They are respected by the American Medical Association.
D. Traditional healers tend to have very broad areas of expertise and do not specialize.
7: Which of the following is true of the Immigration law of 1891?
A. Pregnant women were believed to suffer from a “loathsome or dangerous contagious disease” and were deported
B. Poverty-stricken individuals were allowed to immigrant to the U.S.
C. IQ tests did not factor into the decision to create immigration quotas as they did under prior laws.
D. All women were automatically assumed to be a public charge.
8: Herbert Spencer coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.”
A. True
B. False
9: Research has shown ______ is correlated with higher mortality rates.
A. High social support
B. Advanced education
C. Poverty
D. Majority group status
10: Curanderismo is popular among indigenous cultures throughout Latin America.
A. True
B. False
11: The rise of the eugenics movement is associated with the late 19th century.
A. True
B. False
12: Which of the following is true of microaggressions?
A. They are a form of psychological stressor tied specifically to one’s identity as a member of a majority group.
B. Their impact comes from the lack of intention of the person who makes the microaggression statement.
C. Their impact is due to microaggressions functioning as a reminder of oppressing other groups.
D. They may be verbal, non-verbal, and/or behavioral insults to a person or group.
13: ____ model organization is formal organization established by physicians as a way of defining themselves as the only authentic and legitimate practitioners of medicine
A. American
B. African
C. Asian
D. Canadian
14: Treatment programs that purport to change the sexual orientations of gays and lesbians is ____ therapy
A. Conversion
B. Stable
C. Irreversible
D. None of these
15: A “mental illness” invented to explain why slaves tried to escape slavery is called
A. Eugenics
B. Epidemiology
C. Drapetomania
D. All of these
16: The study of the causes and distribution of diseases and injuries in a population is called
A. Eugenics
B. Epidemiology
C. Drapetomania
D. All of these
17: ____ science concerned with improving genetic quality or desired characteristics of a population through practices of breeding and/or extermination
A. Eugenics
B. Epidemiology
C. Drapetomania
D. All of these
18: Science concerned with improving genetic quality or desired characteristics of a population through practices of breeding and/or extermination is ____ genome project
A. Human
B. Animal
C. Man
D. Women
19: The acceptance by members of minority groups of White society’s negative beliefs about, actions toward, and characterizations of them is internalized racism
A. True
B. False
20: The sociological study of the field and practice of medicine and their social effects is called
A. Medical sociology
B. Physiology
C. Biology
D. Morphology
21: Intentional or unintentional brief insults to a person or group; these may be verbal, nonverbal, or behavioral is called
A. Microaggressions
B. Macroaggressions
C. Aggressions
D. None of these
22: Rates of disease is ____ rates
A. Morbidity
B. Mortality
C. Normality
D. All of these
23: Rates of death is ____ rates
A. Morbidity
B. Mortality
C. Normality
D. All of these
24: A concept involving the right to have or not have children, and to parent children in safe and healthy environments is reproductive justice
A. True
B. False
25: An ideology that attempts to apply Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection to people at the individual or group level over a few generations, based on a misguided and incorrect interpretation of Darwin’s work is social dwarfism
A. True
B. False
26: Physical, mental, and spiritual healing that makes use of indigenous knowledge, skills, and practices that have been passed down over generations is ____ medicine
A. Traditional
B. American
C. Genetic
D. None of these
27: Shekina is interested in examining if the way in which a doctor verbally describes a patient’s symptoms impacts whether the patient feels that he or she is actually ill. Which theoretical perspective is Shekina most likely using?
A. Symbolic interactionist
B. Structural functionalist
C. Conflict
D. Feminist
28: What is one argument in favor of euthanasia?
A. Physicians take the Hippocratic Oath to extend life
B. Terminally ill persons, at base levels, are more likely to commit suicide than non–terminally ill patients
C. The pain of terminally ill patients can be relieved with medication
D. Allowing terminally ill people to commit suicide may be a “slippery slope.”
29: Which type of health care system is government operated and provides equal access to all citizens?
A. Decentralized national health care
B. HMO
C. PPO
D. Socialized medicine
30: Which of the following led to the growth of hospitals?
A. Lower health care costs
B. Industrialization
C. The rise in morality
D. A surplus of skilled nurses
31: Beliefs about what constitutes illness are culturally determined.
A. True
B. False
32: The proliferation of airplane travel has increased the spread of global diseases.
A. True
B. False
33: Some diseases that are easily treatable in rich countries cause numerous deaths in poor countries.
A. True
B. False
34: ______ is a special position in society in which one is temporarily relieved of responsibilities and accepts a position of dependence.
A. Medicalization
B. Hospitalization
C. Curanderismo
D. The sick role
35: In some ways, the health care system in the U.S. is among the worst in the world.
A. True
B. False
36: A study that examines the way in which a disability impacts a person’s ability to work would be a meso-level study.
A. True
B. False
37: The process through which a professional occupation loses autonomy, respect, and service orientation because the professionals come to be controlled by nonprofessionals and outside forces is deprofessionalization
A. True
B. False
38: A state of physical, mental, and social well-being or the absence of disease is called health
A. True
B. False
39: Lack of health is called
A. Medicalization
B. Medicare
C. Medicaid
D. Illness
40: The government-run health insurance plan for low-income families in the United States is called
A. Medicalization
B. Medicare
C. Medicaid
D. Illness
41: A government-run health insurance system for those 65 and older in the United States is called
A. Medicalization
B. Medicare
C. Medicaid
D. Illness
42: Handling of some forms of deviance as well as some normal human functions (such as pregnancy and childbirth) in the health care system rather than the family, legal, or religious arenas is called
A. Medicalization
B. Medicare
C. Medicaid
D. Illness
43: A special position in society in which one is temporarily relieved of responsibilities and accepts a position of dependence is sick role
A. True
B. False
44: Provides a government-supported consumer service that ensures equal access to health care for all citizens of a country is socialized medicine
A. True
B. False
45: African Americans are about three times likely to die due to race-based factors than due to car, motorcycle, plane, train, or bicycle accidents combined.
A. True
B. False
46: Which statement is true regarding disparities across racial and ethnic groups in healthcare?
A. There is no difference in access to and quality of health care.
B. Diseases and sickness equally affect all racial and ethnic groups.
C. Some improvements in these disparities were documented in 2015.
D. The Affordable Care Act has had no measurable effect on these disparities.
47: Which of the following is associated with growing up in poverty?
A. Normal cognitive development despite poor nutrition.
B. Decreased probability of experiencing depression and anxiety.
C. Unaffected probability of experiencing difficulties in controlling anger and response inhibition.
D. Many more environmental risk factors that can negatively affect both physical and mental health.
48: Traditional or native healers in Latino/a cultures is Curandero
A. True
B. False
49: __________ is the process of deciding the right thing to do when facing a moral dilemma.
A. Ethical decision-making
B. Theoretical decision-making
C. Active decision-making
D. None of the above
50: Anorexics tend to have __________ tendencies, whereas bulimics tend to have ________ tendencies.
A. Avoidant; borderline
B. Conflict; please
C. Obsessive-compulsive; impulsive
D. All of this
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