The demographics of an elementary school are shown below. The school has 300 students. Estimate the number of students who are Asian/Pacific Islanders.

__________________________ may lead providers to end life saving treatment earlier for disabled patients because providers assume that patients with disabilities have low quality of life.

According to Talcott Parsons, the “Sick Role” (a cultural script) entails: A) Commitment to getting well B) Accepting the authority of the physician C) Commitment to Stay in the Sick Role D) A & B E) B & C

Due to the _________________, providers may give less aggressive treatment because providers assume that patients with disabilities suffer more than non-disabled patients with the same medical facts.

Pharmaceutical sales representatives have access to information about physicians’ prescribing practices.

List and define the three parts of the healthcare trilemma. If you represented a Hospital Association during health debates over the Affordable Care Act, which part of the trilemma would you try to convince the public is the most important problem to address with the current system? What would you say is causing that problem? Explain how that framing would that serve the hospital industry’s strategic interests.

Lyon and Mirivel (in lecture) found that when it became clear that Vioxx raised heart attack risks with little benefit over competitor drugs, Merck (its maker) trained its sales force to:

The Oregon Death with Dignity Act:   A) Was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court B) Has been adopted in some form by more than 4 U.S. states C) Was supported by Republicans in Oregon but not Democrats D) Was repealed after too many patients requested to end their lives

Which argument about antibiotics in the food supply reflects the Precautionary Principle? A) The US beef industry says we should not reduce antibiotics in meat until scientific evidence about risks is certain  B) Europeans want to reduce antibiotics in the food supply because a we have good evidence that it is  harming human health  C)  U.S. consumer advocates say that antibiotics are unneeded because illnesses cannot cross between animals and humans anyway. D)  The FDA says that they are starting a study to investigate whether antibiotics in the food supply affect human health.

According to lecture, one way physicians engage in “disease mongering” is by: