Which of the following is NOT true? As farm productivity has risen,
a. farm prices have fallen.
b. small farms have increased in number.
c. family-owned farms have begun to disappear.
d. energy costs and credit burdens have risen.
e. farmers have sought alternative employment.
b
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Comparing the health status of high-income people and lower-income people demonstrates that
A. illness and disease are equally likely to strike anyone from any particular social class. B. the effects of social class are less dramatic in the area of health than in other areas. C. social factors have a broad range of effects on health. D. poor people do not care about taking care of themselves.
One of the themes of this text has been to illustrate how our personal experiences, choices, and constraints are influenced by historical and cultural forces, social positions, and social institutions. Another way of saying this is:
A. individual protective factors promote resiliency. B. empirical data can tell us right from wrong. C. cumulative advantage and disadvantage do affect people in later life. D. linking micro-level and macro-level perspectives helps us understand families.
What does the word “utopia” mean?
a. nowhere b. place of no one c. place of perfection d. another’s dream
Both public and private insurance plans were originally intended to solve many of the problems and inequities of the American health-care system. The text points out that such plans have __________
a. reduced the cost of health care b. removed control of the system from health-care practitioners c. compounded existing difficulties d. solved existing difficulties e. prevented physicians and hospitals from deciding what and how much treatment each patient will receive