Prenatal and Postpartum Care 4th Edition Test Bank
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CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS ss ssss
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS ssss
Select the one correct answer to each of the following questions.
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1. Which ssss of the following best defines the term “gender” as used in this text?
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a. A person‟s sex
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b. A person‟s sex as defined by society
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c. A societal response to a person‟s self-representation as a man or woman
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d. A person‟s biological presentation as defined by himself or herself
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2. Which ssss factor bears most on women‟s health care today?
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a. The complexity of women‟s health
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b. Women‟s status and position in society ssss ssss ssss ssss ssss
c. Population growth ssss
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3. Why is acknowledging the oppression of women more difficult
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within Western societies?
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a. The multiplicity of minority groups complicates the issue.
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b. The availability of health care makes acknowledgment more difficult.
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c. The diversity of the news media clouds the issue.
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d. Affluence and increased opportunities mask oppression. ssss ssss ssss ssss ssss
4. Which of the following most
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a. Not having a choice ssss ssss ssss
b. Not having a voice ssss ssss ssss
c. An act of tyranny ssss ssss ssss
, d. A feeling of beingssss ssss ssss ssss burdened
5. In what way does a model of care based on a feminist perspective
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contrast sharply with a biomedical model?
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a. It provides a forum for the exploration of gender issues.
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b. It seeks equal distribution of power within the healthcare interaction.
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c. It emphasizes women‟s rights.
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d. It opens new avenues for women‟s health care.
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a. society, biology ssss
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d. biology, hormones ssss
7. Women‟s health risks, treatments, and approaches are not always
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based in science and biology because
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a. they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.
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b. they are determined by social expectations and gender assumptions.
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c. they often rely on alternative treatments and approaches.
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d. scientific research often fails to take women into consideration.ssss ssss ssss ssss ssss sss s ssss ssss
8. Reproductive rights were added to the World Health Organization‟s human
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rights framework in the last
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b. 10 years ssss
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9. “Safe Motherhood” was added to the human rights framework in order to
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a. address maternal morbidity and ssss ssss ssss ssss mortality on a global level sss ssss ssss ssss
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c. correct an injustice ssss ssss
d. correct an oversight ssss ssss
10. What ssss is a chief failing of the biomedical model in regards to women‟s health care?
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a. Its reliance on studies comprised exclusively of males
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b. Its consideration of women as central the model
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c. Its emphasis on science and medicine
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d. Its limited definition of “health” as “the absence of disease”
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11. The social model of health places the
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a. the community. ssss
, b. the individual. ssss
c. environmental conditions. ssss
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12. Which question below supports the strategy: “Identify women‟s agency
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in the midst of social constraint and the biomedical paradigm.”? a.
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“Are „all women‟ the same?”
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b. “Why do you care about the issue?”
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c. “Are women really victims or are they acting with agency?”
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d. “Who has a choice within the context of health?”
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13. What ssss had ssss been a significant problem in medical research well into the 1990s?
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a. The ssss focus on randomized clinical trials over epidemiological investigations
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b. The ssss lack ssss of representation of women in research trials
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c. The ssss lack ssssof research related to gynecology
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d. The ssss focus on randomized clinical trials over observational research
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14. Gender differences in heart disease can be found in
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a. diagnosis.
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15. What opportunities are created by applying feminist strategies to gynecologic
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a. Better insight into research methods related to gynecology
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b. Better access to the populations affected by gynecologic health
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c. Better understandings from a wellness-oriented, women-centered framework
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d. Better understandings of the social construction of gender
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