HSC 380 MIDTERM REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

HSC 380 MIDTERM REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Native Americans are the only indigenous group to the United States. (T or F) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True



Hispanic is an ethnicity rather than a race. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True



__________ are now the second largest emerging majority group in the United States. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅African Americans



Cancer rates are lower among Black women when compared with White women. (T or F) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False



By treaty rights, ______ own their own lands. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Native Americans



_________ is a term that is used to describe an inevitable change taking place in American society based
on the prediction that by the years 2042-2050, in certain areas in the U.S., the majority populations will
be Hispanic and Black people and other non-majority groups. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Emerging
majority



As a consequence of beliefs, people from different cultures may have different treatment-seeking
behaviors. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True



The main racial and ethnic groups, as determined by the __________, are designated by category for
federal statistics and administrative reporting. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Office of Management and
Budget (OMB)



If supermarkets build in low-income neighborhoods, but the people in those neighborhoods cannot
afford the food, the outcome is known as a food desert. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False



Lack of sufficient health care for some in the United States has led to: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Both
poorer health and health inequality

, Food injustice is a result of which of the following factors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Politics, education,
and culture



Generally speaking, health disparity refers to equal status in health among varying racial and ethnic
groups. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False



The White population, which is currently the majority population, has a higher health status than
members of the African American/Black population. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True



Which of the following studies involved the manipulation of Black men into believing that they were
receiving treatment for syphilis? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Tuskegee Syphilis Study



Genetics has no substantial basis as the sole explanation of health disparities. (T or F) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True



__________ are descendants of slaves, and may have inherited the dietary preferences of slaves that
have been passed from one generation to the next. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅African Americans



Many undocumented immigrants will have poorer health because they will seek care in emergency
rooms or not seek care at all. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True



IQ testing, initially used to determine intellectual capabilities and identify those who were "intellectually
inferior" and "feeble-minded," provided the science that has been used to formulate and justify current
test-based practices and policies. (T or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True



One's health status has little impact on their engagement within the education system and vice versa. (T
or F) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False



__________ was the landmark case in which racially segregated schools were declared unconstitutional
on the basis that "separate was not equal." - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Brown v. Board of Education