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In recent years, a great compulsion to engage in frequent and risky sexual behaviors was deemed sexual addiction.This is an example of:

A) Individualized deviance
B) Deviant qualification
C) Commodification of health care
D) Medicalization of deviance

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What is one of the largest contributors to health problems in low-income countries?

A) Veganism
B) Clean water access
C) High caloric diets
D) Sterilization

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Epidemiology is:

Sheryl was diagnosed with bipolarity when she was a teenager.She's hesitant to tell her friends, and tries her best to hide her diagnosis from her coaches, teachers, and employers, since she's seen other people with the illness be discriminated against on account of it.Bipolarity is an example of an) :

Dana's lives in a country which guarantees healthcare for all of its citizens.Dana lives in a country which uses:

The United States healthcare system consists of:

Which of the following was not among the United Nations eight Millennium Development Goals set in 2000?

Which of the following best defines the concept of "The Sick Role"?

Which of the following is an example of legitimation?

Which of the following would a social epidemiologist be likely to study:

Shane believes that the commodification of health has created a large number of problems within the United States.From which sociological perspective does this come from?

Until 1973 homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder American Psychological Association.Which sociological perspective would be most concerned with why this was considered an illness, and what effect that diagnosis had on society?

Medical sociology is the systematic study of:

Obesity is rising at the fastest rate in which of the following countries?

Taylor works as a legal assistant.His insurance doesn't cover treatment for depression, and he spends 15% of his income each month to receive care.This is an example of

Drake lives in Great Britain, where the British government owns and operates the country's health care system.This is an example of ____:

What sociologist pioneered the concept of "The Sick Role"?

Which of the following is NOT a result of the commodification of health care?

Which sociological perspective argues that sick people fill a societal role, and are stigmatized by society if they spend longer in that role than is appropriate?

When a number of young, gay men in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles began dying of a mysterious disease in the early 1980's, the public began referring to the disease as "the gay cancer," stigmatizing the disease for doctors and patients.This is an example of: