Lecture 10/19

Question 1

What is global health

Answer 1

Not “just” health care
Not limited to sites outside the US
Interdisciplinary
Based in social justice philosophy
Enagges governments, private sector, NGOs, and civil society

Question 2

Health definition

Answer 2

a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 3

Global health trends

Answer 3

Growing population
Aging population which reflects in disease burden
Urbanization
Diets high in sugar, fat and salt
Physical inactivity
Climate change

Question 4

What shape’s health

Answer 4

• a personal personal health practices
• if a person has health insurance
• a person’s access to affordable health care

Question 5

health disparity

Answer 5

a population based difference in health outcomes (women have more breast cancer than men)

Question 6

Health inequity

Answer 6

disparity based on unfair, socially-determined circumstances

Question 7

Implict bias

Answer 7

attitudes, sterotypes, and beliefs that can affect how we treat others

Question 8

Dominant Discourse

Answer 8

created by those in power and it becomes the accepted way of looking at the subject

Question 9

Tokenization

Answer 9

when racial minorities experience hightened performance pressures related to their race and gender

Question 10

exotification

Answer 10

seeing something or making something exotic when to other cultures it is viewed as normal

Question 11

Cultural Competency

Answer 11

Ability to interact with people of different cultures
Awareness of the regional specificities present in the area serviced by the organization or clinic with whom a researcher will be working
Being conscious of the region’s unique cultural economic, political, and historical attributes