HSCI 130 Final Exam Jeopardy

What is the healthy immigrant effect?

This construct describes the finding that immigrants to Canada arrive healthy and then see their health deteriorate

Who is Bono?

The name of the rock star who convinced Senator Jesse Helmes to change his position on AIDS funding

What is a false negative?

The people who truly have a disease but test negative on a particular test

What is 1972?

By this year, all Canadian provinces had adopted Medicare

What is the proportion of the BC budget spent on healthcare?

43%

What is the amount of people living with HIV/AIDS?

39 million

What is Africa?

This region has the highest per capita incidence of tuberculosis

What is 1.5 million?

This is the number of children <15 years living with HIV in 2023

What is 1984?

This is the year of the establishment of the Canada Health Act

What are randomized control trials?

In this type of study design, exposure is randomized

What are antibodies?

They neutralize pathogens and tag pathogens for destruction by the immune system

What is the differential exposure hypothesis?

The materialist explanation that the higher number of health problems among lower SES groups is a result of stress

What is 334 billion?

This is the estimated amount of money we spend on health care in Canada today

What are CD4 t-cells?

HIV infects and kills these cells, thus rendering the entire immune system dysfunctional

What is the formula for an incidence rate?

Number of new cases/person time of observation

What is chronic pain?

NPHS data indicates this is the number one reason people seek formal health care in Canada

What is iatrogenesis?

This concept describes illness caused by medical intervention

What is a case control study?

The type of study that helped epidemiologists discover that TSS was caused by tampons

• Comprehensiveness 

• Universality

• Portability 

• Public administration

• Accessibility 

These are the 5 principles of the Canada Health Act

What is the risk taking hypothesis?

This hypothesis is focused on explaining why men are more likely to die from accidents

What are hospitals?

This accounts for about 25-30% of all spending in health care

What is a lack of democracy?

Virchow concluded that this was the primary cause of the 1848 typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia

What is symbolic interactionism?

The idea that we need to understand an individual’s definition and understanding of a situation falls under this sociological paradigm

What is cumulative incidence?

The proportion of a population who become diseased during a specific time period

What is the salutogenic model of health?

Antonovsky’s model that describes the factors that make populations healthy

What are the Whitehall studies?

These highly cited studies in England demonstrated that there is a social gradient in health

What are vertical structures?

Raphael’s term to describe macro-level factors like tax policies that indirectly influence health

Who is John Snow?

The famous epidemiologist who discovered the source of the 1854 Cholera outbreak

What is 17-22%?

This is the estimated number of British Columbians without a family doctor

What is Saskatchewan?

Medicare was born in this Canadian province