M4: Multicausal Solutions and Disease Causation

Fill-in-the-blank practice flashcards covering multicausal theories of disease, the Epidemiologic Triad, web causation models, public health critiques, and alternative social theories of health.

There is little evidence for __________ cause theories.

single

In multicausal solutions, all possible causes go __________.

hand in hand

Unhealthy behavior is linked to poor __________.

education

Unhealthy behavior is linked to bad habits, low self esteem, advertising, lack of role models, poor education, and __________.

Sloth

Unhealthy behavior can be linked to a lack of __________ models.

role

Low self __________ is identified as one of the factors linked to unhealthy behavior.

esteem

__________ is listed as an external factor linked to unhealthy behavior.

Advertising

The Epidemiologic Triad consists of Host, Agent, and __________.

Environment

The three components of the Epidemiologic Triad are Host, Environment, and __________.

Agent

In the Epidemiologic Triad, the entity harboring the disease is the __________.

Host

Disease causation can be viewed as a web with multiple contexts, including social, physical, cultural, economic, psychological, and __________.

Political

The __________ context is one of six contexts for disease causation in the web model, alongside physical and social.

Cultural

The __________ context is listed as a causation context along with political, social, and psychological.

Economic

The __________ context is listed as a context for disease causation alongside social and cultural.

Psychological

A problem with Web or Multicausal theory is that it is a __________ where everything is linked with everything else.

Maze

Because the multicausal web makes things seem hopeless, taking no __________ becomes rational.

action

When people do not know the cause under multicausal theory, they concentrate on the __________.

cure

Web or multicausal theory is compared to __________-functionalism because it fails to look at power.

structural

Because structural-functionalism and web theory do not look at __________, there is no way to change the system.

power

Multicausal theory allows the public to be misled because all parts of the web are treated as causal "__________".

equals

The CDC's __________ program has a lifestyle theory emphasis.

Healthy People

OSHA places an emphasis on personal equipment, advocating safety goggles and __________.

PPE

OSHA's personal equipment emphasis advocates PPE and safety __________.

goggles

Web or multicausal theory hides the __________ of the situation.

Politics

In multicausal theory, prevention policies become __________ because emphases are ineffectively divided.

inefficient

One proposed response to cholera is to __________ against it.

Inoculate

Teaching people to wash hands and __________ water are individual-level responses to cholera.

boil

Purifying the public __________ supply is identified as the best way to eliminate cholera.

water

Purifying the public water supply takes no effort on the part of the __________.

public

In multicausal theory, the gap between what is promised and what is __________ is too great.

delivered

Epidemiology looks for __________ factors of disease.

causation

Multicausal theory has a __________ emphasis that ignores many social and sociological factors.

Technology

The technology emphasis in epidemiology ignores many social and __________ factors that contribute to illness.

sociological

Science often leads us to believe it can know all factors, even though science can't __________ all.

know

Tesh poses an alternative theory stating that "All Illness Is __________".

Social

According to Virchow, the __________ is responsible for ensuring health.

state

Virchow states that the cause of disease is __________.

inequality

Engels argues that the responsibility for health lies in __________ economy.

political

Engels argues that capitalism leads to filth and misery, as well as miasma and __________.

stench

For Engels, __________ is the cause of disease.

capitalism