Lecture 10-Health disparities

Question 1

Multiple factors lead to health status including?

Answer 1

Healthcare, genetics, behavior, environment, social determinants, and stress

Question 2

Stress

Answer 2

Growing body of evidence that stress leads to poor health outcomes

Question 3

Health Literacy

Answer 3

• Ability to use health information and services in ways that lead to positive health outcomes
• Substantial research suggests that health literacy is a stronger predictor of health outcomes than any other individual social determinant of health (i.e. race, education, income, etc)

Question 4

Health literacy stretegies

Answer 4

• Plain language
• Teach back
• “Universal precautions”

Question 5

Impact of the affordable care act

-Main effect? Who felt the greatest effect?

Answer 5

• Decreased overall uninsured rate in U.S.
• Minorities saw the greatest decrease in uninsured rate
• Disparity still exists

Question 6

Impact of the Affordable Care Act in MO and KS

Answer 6

• Individual mandate ok
• Unconstitutional for federal government to “threaten” states to expand medicaid
• Kansas and Missouri have NOT expanded medicaid

Question 7

Health disparities between minorities and whites

-Minorities have/are?

Answer 7

• Less access to good health care
• Lower average life expectancy
• Higher prevalence of diseases including diabetes, stroke, and other preventable diseases
• Less likely to graduate high school
• More likely to live in poverty