Chapter 12 Practice Quiz

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. Higher levels of wealth do not translate into higher levels of health for

a. African Americans correct incorrect

b. Whites correct incorrect

c. Latinos correct incorrect

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. The perspective that explains health disparities through focusing on how negative experiences and lack of resources and opportunities add up over one's life is called

a. life-course perspective correct incorrect

b. weathering hypothesis correct incorrect

c. cumulative disadvantage perspective correct incorrect

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. The perspective which explains health disparities through focusing on how being exposed to difficulty, hardship, and racism creates a negative physical response in the body is called

a. life-course perspective correct incorrect

b. weathering hypothesis correct incorrect

c. environmental racism correct incorrect

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. Acculturation's impact on health for Latinos is

a. good correct incorrect

b. bad correct incorrect

c. good and bad for health correct incorrect

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. The Hispanic Paradox is defined as the

a. gradual decline in health the longer one lives in the United States correct incorrect

b. increase in health the longer one lives in the United States correct incorrect

c. both of the above depending on the age of immigration correct incorrect

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. The lack of a biological basis to race means that any of a race-based medicine's effectiveness is

a. not due to race correct incorrect

b. due to race correct incorrect

c. not due to biology but belief correct incorrect

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. Race-based medicine is considered:

a. good quality medical care correct incorrect

b. poor quality medical care correct incorrect

c. neutral quality medical care correct incorrect

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. An example of an environmental injustice would be

a. the siting of several polluting industrial plants near a community of color correct incorrect

b. the lack of green spaces in communities of color correct incorrect

c. both of the above correct incorrect

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. African Americans are more likely than any other racial group to die at every age is a(n)

a. factual statement correct incorrect

b. false statement correct incorrect

c. exaggerated statement correct incorrect

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. The connection between racism and negative physical health impacts is more prevalent for

a. Asian Americans correct incorrect

b. Latinos correct incorrect

c. African Americans correct incorrect