Chapter 7 Flashcards
1
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Health disparities
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Differences in health outcomes and their determinants between segments of the population, as defined by social, demographic, environmental, and geographic attributes.
2
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Leininger transcultural care
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Provider must decide preservation/maintenance, accommodation/negotiation, or repatterning/restructuring actions.
3
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Standards of cultural competency
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A blueprint for healthcare professionals and organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
4
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Health determinants
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- Biology and genetics
- Individual behavior
- Social environment
- Physical environment
- Health services
Factors that influence health disparities and contribute to an individuals health.
5
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Ethnopharmacology
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The study if racial differences in drug metabolism and response.
6
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Pharmacokinetic factors that can be expected to potentially exhibit racial differences
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- bioavailability for drugs that undergo gut or hepatic first-pass metabolism
- protein-binding
- volume of distribution
- hepatic metabolism
- renal tubular secretion
