Health Disparities Flashcards

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What is health equity?

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the state in which everyone has the opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or any other socially defined circumstance

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What are health disparities?

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a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systemically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group

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What are two things to consider when looking at health equity for a person?

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genetics and biology

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What are social determinants?

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conditions in the environments in which people are
born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes
and risks

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What is health literacy?

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the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand
basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions

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What is low health literacy associated with?

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more emergency room visits, more hospital stays, less following of treatment plans, higher mortality rates

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If an individual has health disparities, what else are they most likely to have?

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lower levels of health literacy

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What are 8 things that health is affected by?

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discrimination/minority stressors, neighborhood conditions, housing, educational opportunities, quality affordable healthcare, food security and access to healthy foods, stable income and job security, environmental quality

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