Scottsdale Community College SOC 140. Chapter 11. 31 Questions and Answers. 100% Pass rate.

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SOC140 Chapter 11 HERE IS A LIST OF THE QUESTIONS 1. Because Medicaid pays well, most physicians welcome these patients into their practices. 2. Health care in America is economically and raciall... y stratified because: needs of the physician more than the needs of the patient 3. Black job seekers often face all of the following EXCEPT: 4. The percentage of African Americans enrolled in medical schools is increasing each year. 5. In Saskatchewan province Canada, when they introduced a $1.50 fee for each visit to the doctor (it had been free) they found what result? 6. White Americans are more likely than minority groups to: 7. People with incomes below the poverty level today see doctors more often than before Medicaid was established. 8. The split labor market theory is based on the: 9. Because Medicaid pays well, most physicians welcome these patients into their practices. 10. Most minority people who use traditional medicine which involves folk medicine or religious healing, rarely go to see medical doctors. 11. When African Americans experience racism at work and they choose not to respond, what effect does this have on their health? 12. In hospitals, the higher the proportion of patients who are black, the less intensive the procedures that are provided and the higher the mortality rate. 13. Minorities have shorter life expectancy than whites. Which of the following is a reason for this? 14. The United States spends more money per capita on health care than any other country in the world. 15. Which kind of wealth is most heavily concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy whites? 16. All of the following are reasons why minorities do not get the health care they need EXCEPT: 17. Which of the following is true? 18. All of the following are reasons that many cities are in fiscal crisis EXCEPT: 19. For health care many Mexican Americans use: 20. Which statement is true according to the split labor market theory? 21. Medicaid mills: 22. Szmanski’s (1976) study showed that in states with relatively high racial inequality in income, whites had lower average incomes and: 23. Becker’s starting point—that some people have a "taste for discrimination" assumes that the main cause of discrimination is: 24. In the study by Reich which examined the 1960 and 1970 Census data on the 48 largest metropolitan areas in the United States it was concluded that: 25. People with incomes below the poverty level today see doctors more often than before Medicaid was established. 26. Increasing the number of minority physicians is important for all the following reasons EXCEPT: 27. Which of the following is true of Gary Becker’s economic theory of discrimination? 28. The practice of hiring better-educated employees when education is not a factor completing the job is deliberately racist. 29. Among the industrialized countries of the world, which two have health care systems based solely on the ability to pay? 30. Minority group members suffer from more health disadvantages than do whites in all the following ways EXCEPT: 31. Employers tend to prefer to hire workers with more education than is necessary to do the work because: [Show More]

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