SYO4400 EXs 1-3 QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 2026/27
Medical sociology is an important area of study because: - CORRECT ANSWER It recognizes the
role that social factors play in determining or influencing health.
Which circumstance(s) particularly affected the development of medical sociology in its early
stages? - CORRECT ANSWER A and C
(A.Pressure to produce work that could be applied to medical practice and health policy.
C. Lack of attention on the role of medicine and health from classical theorists.)
In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as __________, and its undesirable nature reinforces
the motivation to be healthy. - CORRECT ANSWER Deviance
What trend(s) reduced tensions between sociologists in medicine and sociologists of medicine?
- CORRECT ANSWER A and B
(A. Most government funding is awarded to research with practical application.
B. Medical sociology itself is converging with general sociology.)
One of the earliest attempts in the Western world to formulate principles of health care, based
upon rational thought and the rejection of supernatural phenomena, is found in the work of the
Greek physician: - CORRECT ANSWER Hippocrates.
The medicine of social spaces is concerned with: - CORRECT ANSWER Preventing disease.
Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was
mainly due to: - CORRECT ANSWER Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation.
, The germ theory of disease is a perspective which asserts: - CORRECT ANSWER Diseases are
caused by a biological agent.
With the transition to a greater prevalence of chronic diseases, physicians have increasingly had
to take which approach to medical care? - CORRECT ANSWER "Whole person" care.
There are two categories of bioterrorism: - CORRECT ANSWER Overt and covert.
The primary focus of the epidemiologist is on: - CORRECT ANSWER Health problems of social
aggregates.
In epidemiology, a "case" refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER A single episode of a disorder, illness, or
injury involving an individual.
A researcher is interested in reporting how many people in a community were diagnosed with
HIV during the past month. He/she would measure the: - CORRECT ANSWER Incidence
Which of the following is TRUE about incidence and prevalence? - CORRECT ANSWER The
incidence for a given disease can be low at the same time that its prevalence is high.
Historically, many urban clinics providing treatment for the poor were established primarily as: -
CORRECT ANSWER Teaching facilities
Whose investigations into cholera outbreaks established the foundation of modern
epidemiology? - CORRECT ANSWER John Snow.
Germ theory provided a framework for understanding the causal agents of disease. What are
the five agents recognized today? - CORRECT ANSWER Biological, nutritional, chemical, physical,
and social.
SOLUTIONS 2026/27
Medical sociology is an important area of study because: - CORRECT ANSWER It recognizes the
role that social factors play in determining or influencing health.
Which circumstance(s) particularly affected the development of medical sociology in its early
stages? - CORRECT ANSWER A and C
(A.Pressure to produce work that could be applied to medical practice and health policy.
C. Lack of attention on the role of medicine and health from classical theorists.)
In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as __________, and its undesirable nature reinforces
the motivation to be healthy. - CORRECT ANSWER Deviance
What trend(s) reduced tensions between sociologists in medicine and sociologists of medicine?
- CORRECT ANSWER A and B
(A. Most government funding is awarded to research with practical application.
B. Medical sociology itself is converging with general sociology.)
One of the earliest attempts in the Western world to formulate principles of health care, based
upon rational thought and the rejection of supernatural phenomena, is found in the work of the
Greek physician: - CORRECT ANSWER Hippocrates.
The medicine of social spaces is concerned with: - CORRECT ANSWER Preventing disease.
Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was
mainly due to: - CORRECT ANSWER Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation.
, The germ theory of disease is a perspective which asserts: - CORRECT ANSWER Diseases are
caused by a biological agent.
With the transition to a greater prevalence of chronic diseases, physicians have increasingly had
to take which approach to medical care? - CORRECT ANSWER "Whole person" care.
There are two categories of bioterrorism: - CORRECT ANSWER Overt and covert.
The primary focus of the epidemiologist is on: - CORRECT ANSWER Health problems of social
aggregates.
In epidemiology, a "case" refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER A single episode of a disorder, illness, or
injury involving an individual.
A researcher is interested in reporting how many people in a community were diagnosed with
HIV during the past month. He/she would measure the: - CORRECT ANSWER Incidence
Which of the following is TRUE about incidence and prevalence? - CORRECT ANSWER The
incidence for a given disease can be low at the same time that its prevalence is high.
Historically, many urban clinics providing treatment for the poor were established primarily as: -
CORRECT ANSWER Teaching facilities
Whose investigations into cholera outbreaks established the foundation of modern
epidemiology? - CORRECT ANSWER John Snow.
Germ theory provided a framework for understanding the causal agents of disease. What are
the five agents recognized today? - CORRECT ANSWER Biological, nutritional, chemical, physical,
and social.
