EH2 Week 2

Question 1

What is the difference between health inequality and health inequity?

Answer 1

Health inequality: Differences in health status among the population, aims to make sure everyone obtains the same things to enjoy healthy life

Health inequity: Results from factors that are just unfair , sometimes hard to eliminate, understand what people need to live healthier lives

Question 2

Define the Social Determinants of Health (SF and C)

What are the three ways that SDOH affects health?

Answer 2

Definition: Social factors that impacts health and well-being, Circumstances that we are born into

1) Risk associated with the disease
2) The disease
3) The capacity that people have to take to prevent the disease

Question 3

Define Social gradient

Explanations for the social gradient 
A) Natural Selection
B) Behavioural/Cultural 
C) Structural
D) Psychological/social capital

Answer 3

The terms that describes health based on socio-economic status

A) Natural Selection: biological inferiority
B) Behavioural/Cultural: habits can lead to poor health
C) Structural: poor housing, overcrowding, poor access to education, unemployment
D) Lack of social support

Question 4

Define Inverse care law

Answer 4

Poorer requires more needs than the rich

Question 5

Define Victim-Blaming

Answer 5

Tendency to blame the health-risk factors on the patients and not on the social circumstances

Question 6

Define Health Literacy

Answer 6

The individual’s capacity to obtain, read and understand basic health information

Question 7

Define Stereotyping

Answer 7

Making assumptions about a certain group of people

Question 8

Define Institutionalized Racism

Answer 8

Racism that is established in social and political institutions, limits and discriminates certain people’s rights

Question 9

Describe Poverty in terms of

a) absolute deprivation
b) relative deprivation

Answer 9

a) lacking the basic material necessities of life

b) unequal sharing of resources

Question 10

Explain Teach-Back ABC

Answer 10

Asking the patient to repeat in their own words what they need to know
Basically an assessment of how well you explained a concept
checking for re-understanding or re-teaching the information

Question 11

What are the three levels of strategies that can be used to address the inequalities in health?

Answer 11

Systems Level, provider levels and services level