Chapter 3

Question 1

Who is affected by health disparities?

Answer 1

Affects group of people who is historically linked to discrimination or exclusion

Question 2

What does Health disparities lead to?

Answer 2

Leads to an individual’s inability to achieve & maintain optimal health.

Question 3

What is Health disparities interconnected with?

Answer 3

Interconnected with biological, environmental, and lifestyle behaviors that negatively impact health outcomes

Question 4

What is the social determinants of health?

Answer 4

Complex relationship factors that influence an individual’s or population’s health

Question 5

What are example of social determinants of health?

Answer 5

Neighborhood and built environment 
Health and health care
Social and community context includes culture
Education 
Economic stability

Question 6

What is culture?

Answer 6

The behavior and beliefs characteristic that’s are learned and shared of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.

Question 7

Society

Answer 7

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Question 8

Define society

Answer 8

A group of people that occupy a specific locality and share the same cultural traditions

Question 9

Define disease

Answer 9

Malfunctioning or maladaptation of biologic and psychophysiology processes in the individual.

Question 10

What is illness

Answer 10

Personal, interpersonal, and cultural reactions to disease or discomfort

Question 11

What is needed to improve health literacy?

Answer 11

• Access to health education
• Skills ( healthcare professionals must assure patient is well equipped to take appropriate measures.
• knowledge of health, medical vocabulary, and concepts
• Cultural competency

Question 12

Social determinants of health: Healthy People 2020

Answer 12

Goal is to improve an individual’s social and physical environments to improve health

Question 13

What is health disparities

Answer 13

Health difference that is closely linked with social,economic and/or environmental disadvantage.