Module 04 - Closing the Gap in Health

Question 1

What are the 3 Goals in Closing the Gap?

Answer 1

1. Improve Daily Living Conditions
2. Addressing Inequities
3. Measuring and Monitoring Health

Question 2

What are the five main areas that need to be addressed to improve daily living conditions?

Answer 2

1. Equity from the Start
2. Healthy Places Healthy People
3. Fair Employment and Decent Work
4. Social Protection Across the Lifecourse
5. Universal Healthcare

Question 3

What are the 3 dimensions of a healthy home?

Answer 3

1. Physical Dimension
2. Social Dimension
3. Spatial Dimension

Question 4

What is the Physical Dimension?

Answer 4

• condition of a house should meet all of an individual’s basic survival needs
• i.e. clean water and sanitation, electricity, plumbing, heating, proper ventilation, safe infrastructure

Question 5

What is the Social Dimension?

Answer 5

• afforadability and home ownership (a person’s sense of belonging and control over their home)
• domestic environment: safety and satbility, lack of overcrowding

Question 6

What is the Spatial Dimension?

Answer 6

• the location of a house in relation to other things in its environment
• i.e. distance to schools, healthcare services, recreation areas, grocery stores

Question 7

What are the 5 areas of Urbanization and Health?

Answer 7

1. Crowding
2. Violence & Injuries
3. Diseases
4. Pollution & Climate Change
5. Gentrification

Question 8

What are the four main pillars that healthcare systems should be built on to have better outcomes?

Answer 8

1. Local Action
2. Primary Level of Care
3. Equitable System
4. Prevention, Health Promotion, and Intervention

Question 9

What are the 3 health inequities that Indigenous communities face?

Answer 9

1. Nursing Stations
2. Medical Transportation
3. Support Allocation & Comparable Access

Question 10

What are the three aspects of market responsibility that can be optimized for health?

Answer 10

1. Social goods should be governed by the public sector
2. Legislation should promote gender equality
3. Promote political empowerment

Question 11

What is a Top-Down Approach?

Answer 11

• when the state works to guarantee a complete set of rights for all citizens, and a fair distribution of resources

Question 12

What is a Bottom-Up Approach? (grassroots)

Answer 12

• founded by self-organization of disadvantaged groups

Question 13

What are the types of policies that help eliminate health inequities?

Answer 13

1. Social goods being governed by the public sector
2. Legislation that promotes gender equity
3. Promoting political empowerment, especially for disadvantaged populations

Question 14

What is a barrier?

Answer 14

obstacles that could harm the feasibility of a policy or intervention

Question 15

What are some examples of barriers?

Answer 15

• civil unrest
• governmental policies or agendas
• physical barriers (e.g. lack of infrastructure)
• cultural barriers (e.g. mistrust of Western medicine)

Question 16

What are enablers?

Answer 16

• factors or resources that can be leveraged to increase the feasbilility or effectiveness of a policy or intervention

Question 17

What are some examples of enablers?

Answer 17

• the willingness of a community to accept a policy or participate in an intervention
• governmental programs that make additional resources available for addressing the health issue