__________ is the subfield of sociology that specializes in research on the health-care system and its impact on the public.

__________ million United States citizens have no health insurance.

Spending for personal health care accounts for __________ percent of total national health-care expenditures

The heavy burden of the American health-care system would be alleviated if greater emphasis were placed on the __________ of illness.

The largest proportion of people who are not covered by health insurance are members of families in which __________

The tendency for costs of treating people with serious illnesses to be transferred from one insurance system to another is called __________

In 1973, in the case of __________, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the right of all women to obtain abortions early in pregnancy.

Of the 16.8 million people with a work disability, about __________ are in the labor force.

In a document called a __________, individuals who are suffering from a terminal illness can request that doctors do nothing to prolong their lives artificially.

According to the text's discussion of AIDS,

Social scientists who see __________ as a basic cause of social-class differences in health and unequal access to medical care are skeptical of the increasing privatization of the American health-care system.

__________ perspectives on issues like smoking and health typically focus on the way communications (e.g., advertising images and messages) seek to connect the use of tobacco with particular lifestyles.

__________ explanations of health-care problems focus on features of health-care institutions themselves.

Which of the following is/are identified in the text as drawbacks to the Canadian health-care system?

In place of a comprehensive and universal health-care system, the United States has been moving toward a system termed managed care, the dominant feature of which is the