CS176 Midterm Flashcards
Bio-medical health definition
What you have when you aren’t sick, absence of disease, closed system
Public health definition
Determined by multitude of factors, environment, solutions change, open system
Determinants of health
Behavioral, biological, socio-economic, environmental factors that effect health status
Market justice
People are entitled only to those valued ends (status, income, happiness) that they have acquired through their own individual efforts, actions, abilities
Social justice
Everyone is entitles to key ends like health protection or minimum standards of income
Cognitive dissonance
Rationalizing behavior, occurs when people hold inconsistent beliefs, ideas, attitudes
Self-efficacy theory
One’s belief in ability to do a specific behavior which affects choice of behavior, efforts made, persistence w/ task, emotional reactions
Belief in just world theory
The world is a just place & is fair to everyone
Internal locus of contol
person believes their behavior reduces their chances of developing a health issue
External locus of control
believe it’s out of their control
Systems theory
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
Health belief model
Theory for motivating people to take positive health actions that uses desire to avoid negative health consequences as motivation
Surplus powerlessness
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
Racism
institutionalized, personally mediated, internalized
Latino paradox
Experience positive health outcomes (lower mortality/morbidity rates) even though they are socially marginalized
Protective factors
Family, love of nation of origin, social support, view of children in the culture
Yerberos
herbalists
Sombadores
bone therapists
Pateras
midwives
Oracionistas
work through prayer
Curanderos
Informal relationship, come to house, work w/ family, less money, share views of patient
Physicians
Formal relationship, go to office, family ignored, more money, focus on science not religion, doesn’t share world view
Cultural themes
family, respect, religion, simpatia
Family
has precedence over individual interests, father as authority
