Chapter 12: Health

Study of how genes interact with wider natural and social environments

• Genetics

• Epigenetics

• Medicalization

Answer explanation

Genetics: The study of how genes function in the biological system

The wear and tear on the body due to stress

• Allostatic Load

• Disability

• Illness

A form of dishonor, discredit or shame associated with an illness

• Illness experience

• Sick role

• Stigma

• Epidemiology

A process where a social problem comes to be created or redefined as a medical issues

• Medicalization

• Multilevel approach to health

• Professionalization

• Disability

A social response to illness that attempts to identify, prevent and cure disease

• Epidemiology

• Medicalization

• Medicine

• Public Health

True or False: A pandemic is an epidemic that affects a large number of people and is spread over a large geographical areas of the world.

• True

• False

Medical care offered to a person when it is recognized that the illness is no longer curable

• Curative medical care

• Preventive medical care

• Palliative care

• Integrated medical care

Care focused on curing disease or relieving pain to promote recovery

• Curative medical care

• Preventive medical care

• Palliative care

• Integrated medical care