Student Quiz

Chapter 7: Asian Americans

1: Repression of emotion, avoidance of complaint, and endurance of pain are considered by Koreans to be signs of:

mental illness

maturity

poor education

immaturity

failure to adapt culturally

2: Many Cambodians share with the Chinese the following beliefs and practices about health and healthcare:

health is the result of balance and illness the result of imbalance

both are reluctant to seek the help of a healthcare practitioner

neither is likely to practice preventative healthcare

both are unlikely to complain or express pain and discomfort

all of the above

3: The majority of Southeast Asian immigrants to the U.S. are from ______________.

Laos

Cambodia

Vietnam

Myanmar

4: Because of the Vietnamese tendency to associate freedom from symptoms with wellness, healthcare practitioners must be certain to remind their Vietnamese patients ___________.

to take prescriptions as directed instead of stopping as soon as their symptoms dissipate

that medical tests are for diagnosis, not treatment

to take to maintain their healthy balance

to make sure that their symptoms have disappeared before discontinuing their meds

none of the above

5: Because the Philippines has the highest rate of _______________ infection in the world, healthcare practitioners need to be alert for signs and symptoms in patients from that country.

HIV/AIDS

typhoid

malaria

tuberculosis (TB)

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