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CS176 Midterm Flashcards

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Bio-medical health definition

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What you have when you aren’t sick, absence of disease, closed system

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Public health definition

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Determined by multitude of factors, environment, solutions change, open system

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Determinants of health

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Behavioral, biological, socio-economic, environmental factors that effect health status

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Market justice

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People are entitled only to those valued ends (status, income, happiness) that they have acquired through their own individual efforts, actions, abilities

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Social justice

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Everyone is entitles to key ends like health protection or minimum standards of income

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Cognitive dissonance

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Rationalizing behavior, occurs when people hold inconsistent beliefs, ideas, attitudes

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Self-efficacy theory

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One’s belief in ability to do a specific behavior which affects choice of behavior, efforts made, persistence w/ task, emotional reactions

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Belief in just world theory

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The world is a just place & is fair to everyone

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Internal locus of contol

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person believes their behavior reduces their chances of developing a health issue

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External locus of control

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believe it’s out of their control

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Systems theory

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All systems are the environments of something smaller & a subsystem of something larger; systems are open, change in one part effects other parts of system

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Health belief model

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Theory for motivating people to take positive health actions that uses desire to avoid negative health consequences as motivation

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Surplus powerlessness

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All people experience powerlessness, but marginalized communities experience additional powerless that is based on psychological oppression

Sources are childhood socialization, work place, outside/inner forces

Outcomes are people feel they can’t change, disempowered, angry

To stop it need to start w/ children, create empowering workplaces

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Racism

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institutionalized, personally mediated, internalized

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Latino paradox

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Experience positive health outcomes (lower mortality/morbidity rates) even though they are socially marginalized

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Protective factors

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Family, love of nation of origin, social support, view of children in the culture

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Yerberos

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herbalists

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Sombadores

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bone therapists

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Pateras

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midwives

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Oracionistas

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work through prayer

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Curanderos

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Informal relationship, come to house, work w/ family, less money, share views of patient

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Physicians

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Formal relationship, go to office, family ignored, more money, focus on science not religion, doesn’t share world view

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Cultural themes

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family, respect, religion, simpatia

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Family

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has precedence over individual interests, father as authority

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Respect

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based on age, gender, authority

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Religion

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god’s will

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Simpatia

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kindness, repression of anger, avoiding conflict

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God’s will and prevention

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rejection of prevention, not taking action

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Positives of fatalism

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faith, reduced stress, makes people at peace

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Belief in curanderos

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mind/body inseparable, life about maintaining harmony, must be harmony between hot/cold & wet/dry, patient is passive recipient of disease, patient related to spirit world, everyone in community responsible for recovery

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Hot and cold

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disease caused by hot & cold imbalance, hot disease treated w/ cold substances

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Media advocacy

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Making sure story told from public health perspective

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Excess death

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differential in predicted deaths & number that actually happen if higher; for Latinos excess death in homicide, diabetes, HIV, liver disease, work-related injury

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Resource deprivation theory

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lack of adequate infrastructure leads to unhealthy environments & disease (food access, jobs, good schools, transportation, etc)

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John Henryism

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Individuals exposed to high stress learn to cope, but suffer disease & death from high level of exposure & constant coping (cultural adaptation to oppression)

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Weathering hypothesis

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Premature aging occurs as response to long-term exposure to social & financial stress and pro-longed active coping

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Culture of poverty

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Values people experience in poverty are perpetuated leading to cycle of poverty that is generational

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Reductionism

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Focusing on smaller aspects of human being rather than holistic view of health that includes multitude of factors

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Blaming the victim

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Analyzing problems in terms of deficiencies/failure of victim, consequence of market justice

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Cortisol, monkeys, students

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Subordinate monkeys in chronic state of stress, higher cortisol, bad arteries; more income & education means less cortisol released during day

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Wealth = health

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as new immigrant relationship between wealth & health is loose, but living in US for longer relationship becomes tighter

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Social capital

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Network of social connections that exist between people & their shared values and norms of behavior which enable advantageous social cooperation

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Mal ojo (evil eye)

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change in health of infant caused by jealousy of another person

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Empacho

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food clinging to stomach

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Susto

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illness caused by fright

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Envidia (envy)

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illness or bad luck caused by envy

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Positive/negative concept of respect

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respect for elders, respect authority figures w/o any questioning

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Data reliability

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data about community lacking, incorrect, insufficient

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Salmon bias

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return to birth country after retiring or becoming ill meaning deaths not recorded in US

50
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Healthy migrant

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healthiest & strongest migrate

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