Migration, Health, and Society - Questions on Pain Behaviour, Migrant Effect, Medicalization Thesis

Correct options on pain behaviour and migrant effect

In relation to pain and pain behaviour, which one of these options is CORRECT?

The Healthy Migrant Effect is MOST evident in
• Departure
• Settlement
• In all the phases of migration
• In Departure, Transit and Settlement
• Transit
• Return

The Salmon Effect is MOST evident in
• None of the alternatives
• Settlement
• Departure
• Transit
• Settlement and Return
• Return

Which one of the following statements is the MOST CORRECT?
Diseases such as Syphilis, TB and currently, of HIV.
A. The migrant labour system in South Africa contributes to the spread of Syphilis

B. The movement of men from the mines to the rural homestead became a driver of Sexually Transmitted
C. The destructive effects of the migration labour system allowed to anticipate the spread of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
D. None of the alternatives is correct

Which one of the following statements is CORRECT?
C. Pharmaceuticalisation can act independently of medical power
A. Ballard and Elston (2005) write about medical takeover of women’s reproductive experiences
F. Options A, B, and D are correct
D. Homosexuality was de-medicalised due to the pressure of LGBTQ+ movements
E. Options A, B, C, and D are correct
B. With medicalisation the social roots to common problems are transferred into the domain of medicine

Which APPLIES to the medicalisation thesis?
F. Options A, C, and D are correct
C. The medicalisation thesis critiques the authority of medical knowledge and practices in deciding about life and death
E. All the options are correct
A. It critiques the place western society gives to medicine in solving social and health problems
D. Medicalisation thesis unveils the falsity of the neutrality of science
B. Integrative medicine is in fact a form of contesting or challenging the medicalisation thesis

Which of the following terms aligns BETTER with the Patients’ Right Charter?
F. People with agency
D. Everyone
A. Vulnerable patient
C. Poor patients
E. Expert patient
B. Docile patients

The concept of sick role DEMONSTRATES the social existence of disease
C. False because the social can exist without the biological
D. Options B and C are true
A. True
B. False because disease can exist without the social

Which of the following pairs is CORRECT?
E. All the answer options are correct.
C. A community with high rates of COVID-19 where living dwellings are in close proximity and water andablution facilities are communally shared are impacted by structural upstream determinants.
D .A nurse whose clinic does not provide sufficient person protective equipment may be exposed to downstream working conditions.
A. A diabetic patient who also has COVID-19 is considered to have upstream clinical co-morbidities
B. A man who contracts COVID-19 because he refuses to wear a mask because it takes away from his masculinity is impacted by both behavioural and cultural upstream determinants.

Themba lives in Orange Farm with his family. They live in a one roomed shack. His father is a construction worker, and his mother sells vegetables at the market. Themba is an MBBCh 1 (Medical) student at Wits. Themba is an EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO...
C. will most likely experience intra-generational class mobility.
B. will most likely experience inter-generational class mobility.
A. has overcome the deterministic power of structure.
D. reflects agency in practice.
E. is exemplary of all the traits reflected in each of the answer options

From a Sociological point of view, what is the MOST ACCURATE EXPLANATION of “race”?

E. All the answer options are correct.
C. Race is a form of social stratification. Members are assigned to specific groups based on similarities or
differences in their appearance.
B. Race is the product of prejudice.
A. Race is a biological reality.
D. Race is a systematic and structural inequality with historical, political, economic, and social significance. Members are allocated positions on the racial hierarchy according to dominant values about appearance
and acceptance. Most Black African people in South Africa today do not have adequate access to educational opportunities. This means they are unable to access well-paying jobs. Without this, Black African people do not receive medical aid as a benefit of work or cannot independently afford this. Most Black African people are therefore required to use underfunded state health care facilities, with poor outcomes. The same is not true for White South Africans. This is an example of ______ racism.
C. Chronic
D. Systemic
B. Acute
A. Everyday
E. Generational

Which of the following pairs is CORRECT?
A. The body as spectacle is just one example of the social realm.
C. The physiological realm is best described as the body as specimen.
E. None of the provided answers is correct.
B. The body as specimen is the only form that the clinical realm can take.
D. The phenomenological realm is exactly the same as the body as patient.