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Healthcare and Environment Questions
1. Describe how the nations of the world differ in important indicators of health and illness.
2. Summarize the problems associated with the model of private insurance that characterizes the US health system. Include in the discussion the impact of being uninsured.
3. Describe how the fee-for-service (or Direct-Fee) healthcare system contributes to the high cost of healthcare in the United States.
4. Outline how a switch to a national (single payer) system of healthcare could improve the quality of health and healthcare.
5. Describe and discuss the importance of preventative care. Why would preventative care be neglected in the current US system?
6. Outline two reasons that make the environment an appropriate topic for sociologists to study. What is environmental sociology?
7. Describe what is meant by the assertion that environmental problems are human problems.
8. Explain the concepts of environmental inequality and environmental racism.
9. Detail two of the environmental problems (other than climate change) facing the world today.
10. Describe the cause and impact of climate change. Include a discussion of climate changes impact on oceans.