Expression of emotions through bodily complaints is called
a. sympathetic qualities.
b. the biomedical approach.
c. somatization.
d. empacho.
e. empathetic qualities.
Q. 2When a health care provider imposes her or his beliefs, practices, and values on a patient from another culture, what is this termed?
a. supernatural powers
b. cultural imposition
c. worldview
d. cultural inquisition
e. biomedical approach
Q. 3When sickness is assumed to be due to the actions of the patient, reasons for illness might include
a. bad weather, allergens, and pollution.
b. viruses, bacteria, and parasites.
c. food and exercise choices.
d. interpersonal disharmony.
e. conjury.
Q. 4What ethnicity focuses most on the belief that fulfilling social obligations is essential to health and that disharmony with family or village members can result in illness?
a. Gypsies
b. African Americans
c. Middle Easterners
d. Pacific Islanders
e. Native Americans
Q. 5A monochronistic view of time suggests:
a. doing several things at once.
b. doing only two things at a time.
c. doing one thing at a time.
d. focusing on one color at a time.
e. doing nothing.
Q. 6What is the belief of the majority American worldview in regard to fate?
a. a belief in personal control over fate
b. a belief that fate controls the future
c. a belief that illness is a result of fate
d. a belief in fate only in movies
e. a belief in fate only if prescribed by physician
Q. 7In biomedical culture, three causes of disease are identified:
a. immediate causes, underlying causes, and ultimate causes.
b. immediate causes, emerging causes, and ultimate causes.
c. immediate causes, intermediate causes, and underlying causes.
d. spiritual causes, emerging causes, and ultimate causes.
e. spiritual causes, underlying causes, and immediate causes.
Q. 8Approximately what percentage of adults in the U.S. used some form of CAM during the year 2007?
a. 50
b. 72
c. 38
d. 12
e. 83
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