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Heh 105Social Medical Sciences In Environmental Health Question Paper

Heh 105Social Medical Sciences In Environmental Health

Course:Bachelor Of Science In Environmental Health

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2012

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2011/2012
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMME (DECEMBER SESSION)
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH)
HEH 105:
SOCIAL MEDICAL SCIENCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

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DATE: FRIDAY 4TH MAY 2012

TIME: 4.30 P.M. – 6.30 P.M.

INSTRUCTIONS
In Section A, answer ALL the questions (20 marks)
In Section B, answer question 1 (20 marks) and any other two questions (15 marks each)

SECTION A : Answer ALL the questions.

i)
Define culture, explaining its various levels.

(6 marks)
ii)
Outline the six constructs of Health Belief model.

(6 marks)
iii)
Give the various sites of disease causing agents in the lay perceptions of disease
causation.

(4 marks)
iv)
Differentiate between social class and social stratification.

(4 marks)

SECTION B
Answer question ONE (Compulsory) and any other two questions

1.
As a clinical officer you have been posted to a locality where people believe in the
social etiology of diseases (social world) and supernatural etiology (supernatural
world). Discuss the health care provision challenge presented by these believes and
demonstrate how they can be overcome.

(20 marks)

2.
Discuss and illustrate the gender differences in health trends along the theme of
Acquired risks and injuries.

(15 marks)
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3.
Discuss with examples the relevance humoral lay theory of health, disease and illness
experience in influencing health behaviour in the society.

(15 marks)

4.
As a health program coordinator, you are supposed to carry out a survey to establish
the causes, magnitude and distribution of malnutrition and in the community. Discuss
this in the perspective of cultural basis of food classifications.

(15 marks)

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