Healthcare, Society, and the Environment

Question 1

3 impacts on healthcare industry

Answer 1

Waste management, energy efficiency, chemical reduction

Question 2

Solutions to minimize consequences

Answer 2

Waste management, energy efficiency, chemical reduction, advocacy

Question 3

Social Determinants

Answer 3

Specific social and economic factors that can exist and intersect to determine the health of an individual. Relate to an individual’s place in society.

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Health Inequalities

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Differences in health and social status of individuals and groups (i.e., social determinants of health).

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Health Inequity

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Health inequalities that are unfair or unjust and modifiable.

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Health equality

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Ensuring that everyone has equal access to healthcare, and that every patient is treated in the same way.

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Health equity

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Everyone has a fair and just opportunity to reach the optimal level of health regardless of social factors. Refers to the highest attainment of health for all people.

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Health intersectionality

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Shaped by a multi-dimensional overlapping of factors.

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Reducing health inequalities

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Strengthening evidence base to inform decision making, engaging beyond health sector, sharing knowledge of action across Canada

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Cultural competency

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Refers the cultural knoweldge, skills, problem-solving, and attitudes that help healthcare providers consider cultural backgrounds of patients in every stage of treatment.

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Culture

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Shared characteristics of a group of people through religion, art, music, social norms, values, beliefs, food, language, and more.

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Race

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Category of humankind that hare distinctive physical features and attributes; correlates to biology, and is “automatically inherited.”

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Ethnicity

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Country or region of origin; is “obtained or passed on.”

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Problems related to differences in culture

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Misunderstanding and stereotypes, lack of cultural competency, language barriers, discrimination.

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Providing culturally competent care…

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Improves health outcomes, reduces health disparities, enhances patient trust, improves healthcare quality

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Social Trends

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Technology, bioethics, free dental care, culturally competent services

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Legal and Ethical Standards

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Professional Codes of Ethics, Human Rights Code, Health Professionals Regulatory Bodies, Consent and Capacity

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Autonomy

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The right of the client to make choices for themselves.

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Justice

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All clients are treated fairly.

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Beneficence

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Promoting good, and acting in the best interests of the patient.

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Nonmaleficence

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Seeking to do no harm to the patient.

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Homeostasis

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The tendency of an organism to main a stable internal state.

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Negative feedback loop

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Counteract a stimulus and return a system to its stable state, or their “set points.”

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Positive feedback loop

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Amplify a stimulus in order to drive a physiological response to completion.

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Stimulus

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An event that evokes a reaction.

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Sensor

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Monitors internal and external conditions, detecting stimuli.

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Control Center

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Receives and processes signals and then coordinates a response.

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Effector

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Carries out the response to the stimulus.

Question 29

Privatization

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The process of transferring healthcare services and responsibilities for government-managed (public) systems to private entities.

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Health Disparities (categories)

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Economic stability, food security, community safety, healthcare, education.

Question 31

Critical consciousness

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Focuses on achieving and in-depth understanding of the world.

Question 32

Informed consent

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Consent that is provided on the ensurance that a person has sufficient information and understanding of potential risks before making a decision.