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based in scienceand biology because - they are often based on outdated treatments and approaches.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