Exam Questions | Disability Laws, Policies, and Human – Ch6

Chapter 6

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1. Industrialization and urbanization during the 1700s led to which of the following approaches to disability laws and policies?

a. Increased institutionalization

b. Greater access to in-home resources for people with disabilities

c. Effective treatment of mental health disabilities

d. More community-based care and treatment

2. Which of the following is true of the effects of the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 for people with disabilities?

a. They established people with disabilities as unworthy poor.

b. They provided enhanced work opportunities.

c. They established publicly sponsored assistance.

d. They made churches responsible for caring for disabled persons.

3. Historically, laws making resources available to people with disabilities have targeted which of the following groups before being expanded to others?

a. Wealthy industrialists

b. Women

c. Children

d. Military veterans

4. According to the text, which of the following resulted from welfare and charity laws of the 18^th century?

a. They provided a basic standard of living for disabled persons and their families.

b. They provided a bridge for injured workers to reenter the workforce and contribute to industrial profits.

c. They provided subsistence resources to maintain social control.

d. They encouraged urban people with disabilities to move to rural communities.

5. The German Bismarck laws of the late 1800s

a. provided health and retirement insurance.

b. were a precursor to the World War II genocide of disabled people.

c. established Germany as a welfare state.

d. provided tax incentives for hiring people with disabilities.

6. Which of the following is an accurate statement relative to the US Rehabilitation Act of 1973?

a. It provided medical insurance for people with severe disabilities.

b. It mandated private businesses to provide wheelchair access.

c. It applied only to government associated businesses and programs.

d. It applied universally accepted definitions of disability.

7. US Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI)

a. provide subsistence coverage for disabled persons with few other resources.

b. encourage disabled persons to find productive work.

c. require beneficiaries to have worked prior to disability.

d. are examples of compulsory government programs.

8. US Medicare and Social Security Insurance (SSD)

a. provide subsistence coverage for disabled persons with few other resources.

b. encourage disabled persons to find productive work.

c. require beneficiaries to have worked prior to disability.

d. are examples of compulsory government programs.

9. Which of the following most accurately reflects Canada’s health policies relative to disabled persons?

a. They discourage working for fear of exceeding income limits to receive medical benefits.

b. Health coverage is not dependent on individual income.

c. Ontario’s health policies are unique from other provinces in that it provides coverage to all persons.

d. They are modeled after US health policy.

10. Which of the following is accurate of Canada’s legislative approach to disability rights?

a. Federal disability rights laws are a model for many other countries.

b. Disability specific laws are primarily the purview of the federal government and not the provinces.

c. Federal disability rights are included as human rights along with other groups rather than as disability specific laws.

d. They specify needs and remedies for specific disability groups.

11. In comparing health care in the United States to Canada, which of the following is accurate?

a. Because of universal health coverage, Canada’s per capita expenditures exceed the United States.

b. Most Canadians prefer the US approach to health coverage over their plan.

c. Health outcomes in the two countries are nearly identical.

d. Disabled Americans are less likely to have health coverage than disabled Canadians.

12. According to research by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, which of the following is accurate?

a. Life expectancy in the United States exceeds most other countries.

b. US health policy has been a model for several other countries.

c. Disabled people have higher than average mortality rates in the United States than in other countries.

d. Infant mortality in the United States is significantly higher than the OECD average.

13. According to research by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, which of the following is accurate?

a. Per capita health expenditure in the United States and Canada are roughly equivalent.

b. US Health expenditures per capita are nearly double the OECD average.

c. US health costs seem inflated because US income per capita is greater than other OECD countries.

d. Canada’s socialized approach to health care has resulted in excessive health care inflation.

14. According to research by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, which of the following is accurate?

a. US health expenditures and health indicators (e.g. life expectancy and infant mortality) are higher than the OECD average.

b. Canadian health expenditures and health indicators (e.g. life expectancy and infant mortality) are lower than the United States.

c. European countries spend more on health care and have lower health indicators (e.g. life expectancy and infant mortality) than the United States and Canada.

d. US health expenditures are higher while health indicators (e.g. life expectancy and infant mortality) are less than the OECD average.

15. Which of the following is accurate for children with disabilities relative to the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

a. They are potentially entitled to services beginning at birth.

b. They are provided employment related services after high school graduation.

c. Their education needs are enhanced or met primarily by placing them in specialized education settings with others with disabilities.

d. Adolescents with disabilities are able to control the services they receive.

16. Which of the following is not a characteristic/provision of the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

a. Students are to have individualized education plans.

b. Students are covered until graduation from high school.

c. Individuals are covered up to age 22.

d. It emancipates youth upon reaching age 18.

17. Which of the following is most accurate of the UN Disability Convention?

a. It provides for civil penalties for violators.

b. It has provisions for bringing human rights violations charges to the international community.

c. It is the first UN human rights convention of the twenty-first century.

d. It creates a commission to recommend UN peacekeeper intervention in the event that the Convention is violated.

18. Which of the following is most accurate of the 2006 WHO International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH)?

a. It is largely taken from medical and mental health diagnostic manuals (i.e. ICD, DSM) used in the United States.

b. It provided the framework for the UN Disability Convention.

c. It represented a step forward in emphasizing societal impacts on people with disabilities.

d. It provides guidelines for promoting disability rights.

19. Which is the most accurate reflection of multiple countries’ laws and disability policies in the last three decades?

a. They reflect a greater emphasis on disability rights and inclusion.

b. They criminalize mistreatment of people with disabilities.

c. They enhance the ability of health providers to treat people with disabilities.

d. They are primarily updates of laws that were implemented in the 1950s and 1960s.

20. Which of the following statements about the status of disability internationally is most accurate?

a. The incomes and status of people with disabilities has steadily increased since the 1980s.

b. The UN 2006 Disability Rights Convention has produced demonstrable changes in the status of disabled persons in developing countries.

c. Disability rights laws ‘ impacts are gradual in changing in d/Disabled persons’ status.

d. The United States continues to be a major leader in setting d/Disability policy.

Short Answer/ Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast Canadian and US approaches to health care insurance and how these approaches influence employment for disabled persons.

2. Compare and contrast “individual rights” and “social responsibility” approaches to justify access to education for d/Disabled children and youth.

3. How have the foci disability laws and policies in the US and Canada changed between 1990 and the 21^st century?

5. Provide one advantage and one disadvantage of nondiscrimination laws and policies that focus on d/Disability rather than on the entire population.

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