Practice Quiz: Health and Welfare.
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Poverty as defined in terms of the minimal requirements necessary to afford minimal standards of food, clothing, health care and shelter.
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Another term for Crisis Medicine--the focus on curing disease rather than its prevention.
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A serious mental disturbance in which an individual typically has delusions or hallucinations and a distorted sense of reality.
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Disease of long duration, often not detected in its early stages, and from which the patient will not recover (such as high blood pressure or diabetes).
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The deviant role behavior that a person adopts as a result of being labeled as deviant.
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The deviant act itself, the violation of a norm.
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Government health insurance for those over sixty-five.
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The reorganization of the health care delivery along corporate lines.
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Government aid to the upper and middle classes. Often times this aid is disguised in the form of tax breaks (a deduction for interest on home mortgages) or subsidised services (higher education).
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Movement between different social positions within a stratification system
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