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Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:

Which of the following is true with regards to the libertarian perspective on social justice?
a) It opposes the creation of any institutions that challenge the distributive patterns of market order.
b) The delivery of social goods should be for the greatest net balance of satisfaction.
c) Subsistence rights are essential to life.
d) It is built around the mutual expectations and advantages of voluntary relationships.

Question 2:

Which of the following is NOT a principle of the Marxist perspective on social justice?
a) Rights to material resources
b) Individual duties to the natural rights of others
c) Individual duty to serve the common interest
d) Justice in transfer

Question 3:

Which of the following is NOT a way used by social movements to create a shared sense of identity for their members?
a) Naming
b) Blaming
c) Creating
d) Claiming

Question 4:

Which of the following is NOT considered to be a category of health social movements?
a) Health access movements
b) Health inequity movements
c) Constituency-based health movements
d) Embodied health movements

Question 5:

What is the objective of health access movements?
a) To address health inequality and inequity based on race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality
b) To seek to improve accessibility, quality, and delivery of medical care
c) To focus on a specific illness or disease
d) To focus on a specific population or minority

Question 6:

Which if the following is NOT a factor that accounts for the current focus on health and the development of healthism?
a) Medicalization
b) The politicization of health
c) Health as a moral compass for the human experiences
d) Unequal distribution of health services

Question 7:

Which of the following is NOT an example of health activism?
a) Lobbying
b) Fundraising
c) Keep health records
d) Research

Question 8:

Which if the following is NOT a reason why people in power might pay attention to a social health movement?
a) The movement has expertise that the government does not.
b) The movement identified a need the government did not know existed.
c) The government would like to win more votes.
d) The movement was loud and annoying.

Question 9:

Which of the following is an example a constituency-based health movement?
a) Improving health services for Aboriginal communities
b) The women’s health movement
c) AIDS activists groups
d) Cultural sensitivity training for family physicians

Question 10:

What would be a result of the lack of social justice in health care?
a) An increase in illness, disease, and mortality
b) A decrease in social health movements
c) Increased health services
d) A decrease in illness, disease, and mortality

True or False Questions

Question 11:

Social justice refers to a situation where access to treatment and allocation of resources is based on need, merit, and social status.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The ant-vaccination movement is an example of the struggle between the rights of an individual and the general public’s right to good health.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

According to the libertarian perspective, the state should have a large role in health care.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Health advocacy is a democratic process driven by the life experiences of lay people or celebrities.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Idle No More is a social movement that has drawn attention to the health inequities that exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Health social movements are often top-down.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The pink ribbon campaign is an example of an embodied health movement.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Health advocacy contributed to the partial reversal of legislation that cut funding for refugee health care in Canada.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

The Rawlsian theory of social justice considers the right to health care to be fundamental.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Stem cell research has created a health social movement considered to be one of the most influential in recent history.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Health and Society: Chapter 06

Multiple Choice Questions

True or False Questions