Final Exam Flashcards
Covers Lessons 5-8
What is Health Equity?
Everyone has the opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged.
What are Health Disparities?
PREVENTABLE differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to reach your best health.
What are the systemic causes of health inequities?
- Structural Racism
- Reduce Poverty
- Improve Income Equity
- Increase Educational Opportunity
- Fix laws and policies
What are Social Identity Groups?
- How we define ourselves based on the physical, social, and mental characteristics.
Define Culture.
Integrated pattern in human behavior
Significance of Culture Competence (CC)?
The lack of CC in healthcare a big proponent to health disparities.
Benefits of CC?
- Better Outcomes
- Patients adhere to instruction
- Patients are loyal to a specific provider
- Meet the demands of our evolving demographic.
How has APTA addressed CC?
- The APTA’s Strategic Plan on CC in 2007
What’s included in an organizational culture?
A collective’s
- Attitude
- Beliefs
- Experiences
What Core Values are Related to CC?
- Accountability
- Altruism
- Excellence
- Duty
- Social Responsibility
Define Gender Identity
A person’s deep internal understanding of their own gender
Define Ethnocentrism
The tendency to think that one’s way of thinking, acting & believing are the only ‘right’, proper and moral way to act.
Define Cultural Imposition
An intrusive projection of one’s values or behavior patterns onto others
Examples of Cultural Impostion
- Prescribing a special diet without regard to cultural beliefs with food.
- Restricting family contact, when patient believes family contact will encourage recovery.
Define Acculturation
The process of adopting culture or social patterns of another.
What is Cross’s CCC?
A linear progression from Cultural Destructiveness to Cultural Proficiency.
Define Cultural Destructiveness
Seeks to destroy minority culture.
Ex: Denying service, dehumanizing
Define Cultural Incapacity
- Superiority of the mainstream culture
- Do not seek to destroy minority culture
Ex: AAs are the best athletes
Define Cultural Blindness
Treating everyone the same regardless of culture, this reinforces the dominant culture.
Define Cultural Pre-Competence
To recognize cultural differences and seek education about racial differences
Define Cultural Competence
- Respects cultural differences
- Makes changes to accommodate
Define Cultural Proficiency
- Holds cultural differences in high regard
- Educates others
- Develops skills and partnerships with and for other cultures
What is the CLAS?
Method to reduce disparities in quality of care and improve healthcare
What is the Goal for CLAS?
Reduce overall cost of healthcare by decreasing errors or malpractice
- Secondary to cultural or linguistic misunderstandings
Benefits of the CLAS
- Increase market share of patients
- Improve patient and employee satisfaction
- Reduce health disparities
Name the CLAS Mandates
- Patient care in respect to their culture
- Promote diversity in staff
- Encourage ongoing education
Whats specifically a “Health-Care Disparity”?
- Differences in health care coverage
- Access and quality to health care
What are the reasons for Health Disparities?
- Economic/SES
- Limited minority providers
- Bias, prejudice, stereotypes
- Adherence issues
- Behavioral Risk Factors
What are the domains of the social determinants of health (SDOH)?
- Economic Stability
- Educational access and quality
- Health Care access and quality
- Neighborhood and built environment
- Social and Community Context
Examples of how the SDOH contributes to health disparities
- Limited to no access to groceries
- Only promoting healthy choices and not doing more
Life Expectancy vs. Health-Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy is the average time someone is expected to live.
Health-Life Expectancy: The amount of years a person is anticipated to live without any disease and have a good quality of life.
Who is responsible for listing the Core Health Indicators?
The World Health Organization
What are the CLAS’s Recommendation?
Healthcare organizations are encouraged to provide information to the public on implementation, progress and success in CLAS standards.
What are the goals for healthy people 2030?
- Thriving lives and well being
- Attain health-literacy
- Attain full health potential
- Promote healthy development and behavior
- Engage leadership and the public to take action to improve health.