The Underutilization of Healthcare Services on the Part of People

question 14

Multiple Choice

The underutilization of healthcare services on the part of people of color is partly due to

• A) A long history of abuses by physicians, including inflicting intentional infections and not using sufficient analgesia during surgeries.
• B) Their unwarranted paranoia against medical providers, especially European American men.
• C) Recent cases in popular press that reflect poor treatment of people of color.
• D) Low levels of education on the part of people of color who don't know when to seek services.

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Definitions:

State-Funded Systems

Government-supported services or sectors, such as education, healthcare, and transportation, financed through taxation.

Radical Reconstruction

A period after the American Civil War during which the federal government took extensive measures to rebuild and reform the Southern states that had seceded.

Public Education

A system of education that is universally available and typically funded by the government.

Civil Rights Era

A historical period, primarily during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, characterized by mass mobilization and movements to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.