Diversity and Health Disparities

Question 1

Know the difference between race and ethnicity.

Answer 1

Race: Based on physical characteristics of people (skin and eye color)
Ethnicity: Socially defined group based on cultural factors (hispanic/latino)

Question 2

How do racial and minority backgrounds effect health outcomes?

Answer 2

They have overall worse health outcomes

Question 3

What is acculturative stress?

Answer 3

The feeling of tension and anxiety that accompany efforts to adapt to the orientation and values of dominant culture (can influence physical and mental health disparities such as hypertension and depression) (associated with substance dependence and anxiety disorders)

Question 4

What are between-group differences?

Answer 4

Comparing different groups (for example, coming african americans to caucasians)

Question 5

What are within-group differences?

Answer 5

Differences within the same groups (latinos, low SES, etc.)

Question 6

How do between-group differences and within-group differences influence predicting
health outcomes?

Answer 6

Within-group differences are often times more influention about predicting health outcomes than between-group

Question 7

Know what diversity is and how it relates to heath disparities.

Answer 7

Lack of diversity considerations can negatively influence design, implementation, and evaluation of health intervention efficacy (the ability to produce a desried or intended result) and effectiveness (the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result

Question 8

How have people from minority backgrounds been represented in research?

Answer 8

Health equity, also there is a lack of research from people in minority backgrounds (in comparison to the dominant group)

Question 9

Know the barriers to conducting health related research with underrepresented groups.

Answer 9

Mistrust, recruitment, retention rates (people dropping out of studies midway through), lack of sensitivity from researchers, cultural competence, lack of assessments norm on certain populations, study criteria that disproportionaltely affects minority and low SES families

Question 10

Be familiar with the social determinants of health and how they relate to health
disparities

Answer 10

The framework for understanding health disparities. A person’s health is influence aspects of health (e.g., foods we eat), illness, and access/quality of care. They are interrelated with one another and include the following: economic stability (job availability), education access and quality (programs to help kids do well in school), access of quality of health care (insurance coverage, access to preventive care) =, neighborhood and built environment (safety, parks, neighborhood, stores with food availability), social community context (e.g., programs to help social/community support)