When studying the health care provided at Alpha Hospital in New York City, anthropologist Khiara Bridges documented health-care professionals referring to Black women as “primitive” and stating that they were better able to withstand pain than white women. These attitudes originate ina.information that was the result of Medicaid policies and directives.b.a racist oral tradition within the medical profession featuring stories and folklore about Black women’s bodies.c.conflicts between physicians of color and white patients.d.the formal education health-care professionals received.

Khiara Bridges suggests that the statistical data for racial disparities in health, which indicate that Black babies die at two and a half times the rate of white babies, are due to more than just poverty and may be a result of the failurea.to fully certify physician assistants in poverty-stricken areas.b.of Medicaid to provide equal treatment for people of color.c.to educate doctors about diseases that only affect people of color.d.to challenge and educate doctors on their unexamined racism.

PASSAGEWomen were described as “shy”, “hesitant” with “limited knowledge in health care seeking matters” and often “not following their doctor’s prescription mainly because of a need to double-check these with their husband, family and neighbours” and men in comparison were described as “daring and open”, “willing to follow directions and prescriptions and, being the primary breadwinners, also to have more access to money and to have a decision-making power of their own, independent of the rest of the family”Choose the correct option. (1 Mark)Culture is the ideas, customs and social behavior of a particular social groupOPTIONSTrueFalse

PASSAGEWomen were described as “shy”, “hesitant” with “limited knowledge in health care seeking matters” and often “not following their doctor’s prescription mainly because of a need to double-check these with their husband, family and neighbours” and men in comparison were described as “daring and open”, “willing to follow directions and prescriptions and, being the primary breadwinners, also to have more access to money and to have a decision-making power of their own, independent of the rest of the family”Choose the correct option. (1 Mark)Culture not only legitimizes but also provides the justification for patriarchal attitudes.OPTIONSTrueFalse

The founding of which organization in 1847 had the effect of limiting the U.S. practice of medicine to white males from privileged backgrounds?A.Centers for Disease Control and PreventionB.American Medical AssociationC.U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesD.World Health Organization

PASSAGEWomen were described as “shy”, “hesitant” with “limited knowledge in health care seeking matters” and often “not following their doctor’s prescription mainly because of a need to double-check these with their husband, family and neighbours” and men in comparison were described as “daring and open”, “willing to follow directions and prescriptions and, being the primary breadwinners, also to have more access to money and to have a decision-making power of their own, independent of the rest of the family”Choose the correct option. (1 Mark)It is culture which is responsible for a large number of socially constructed attitudes and behavior which result in discrimination against women.OPTIONSFalseTrue