Medically Underserved Populations

Question 1

What are 3 core functions for public health?

Answer 1

Assessment, assurance , policy development

Question 2

What level of prevention are both public health and clinical health involved in?

Answer 2

Secondary prevention

Question 3

What is the term one health?

Answer 3

The health idea of populations, animals, and environment all together

Question 4

What 2 concepts are the foundation for access to care?

Answer 4

Sustainability and continuity

Question 5

What is sustainability ?

Answer 5

Ongoing care

Question 6

What is continuity?

Answer 6

Care throughout the life span

Question 7

What is the most disabling condition that lowers the quality of life no matter where you live?

Answer 7

Unipolar depression

Question 8

What is DALY?

Answer 8

Disability adjusted life year—the years of life lost due to disability

Question 9

What are the 3 important things apart of infrastructure?

Think without infrastructure in place, access to care will be nearly impossible

Answer 9

Roads, sanitation, and clean drinking water

Question 10

What are two major concerns when caring for elderly populations in regards to social determinants of health?

Answer 10

Prescription medication costs and transportation

Question 11

What are three components to access to care/health services?

Answer 11

1. ) insurance coverage
2. ) health services
3. ) timeliness of care

Question 12

What are some barriers to health services?

List 4

Answer 12

High cost of care, inadequate or no insurance coverage, lack of availability of services, lack of culturally competent care

Question 13

What are the five social determinants of health?

Think SHEEN

Answer 13

Economic stability, education, social and community context, health and health care, neighborhood and physical environment

Question 14

Employment, food insecurity, housing instability, poverty are all associated with which type of social determinant?

Answer 14

Economic

Question 15

Civic participation, discrimination, incarceration, social contacts are all associated with which type of determinant

Answer 15

Social and community context

Question 16

Early childhood education and development, involvement in higher education, language and literacy, high school graduation are all associated with which type of social determinant?

Answer 16

Education

Question 17

Access to healthcare, access to Primary Care , health literacy, for all associated with which social determinant?

Answer 17

Health and health care

Question 18

Access to foods that support Healthy eating patterns, crime and violence, environmental conditions, quality of housing are all associated which type of social determinant?

Answer 18

Neighborhood and built environment (physical environment)