Racism and Access to Healthcare Flashcards
Higher burden of illness, disparity, or mortality among one group over another group is called…
Health disparity
Differences between groups in health coverage, access to care, and quality of care is called…
Healthcare disparity
3 financial barriers to healthcare access:
Lack of insurance
Under insurance
Gaps in coverage
What are structural determinants of health?
Conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and age
Why has private health insurance coverage decreased over the past decade?
Skyrocketing cost of health insurance
Workforce shift
Unstable nature of employment
True or false: African American and Hispanic Americans are less likely to have a usual source of primary care, have fewer physician visits, higher rates of no prenatal care, and lower rates of immunizations.
True
True or false: African Americans are more likely to be uninsured and have higher rates of Hepatitis B and liver cancer.
FALSE; Asian Americans
Challenges faced by the LGBTQIA community in relation to healthcare include which of the following:
A. Stigma and discrimination
B. Denial of care due to sexual orientation
C. Rejection from the community
D. Violence
E. All of the above
E. All of the Above
True or false: Individuals in the LGBTQIA community experience higher rates of substance abuse, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and physical violence.
True
True or false: Men are more likely than women to report leaving an MD because of dissatisfaction of care.
False; women
True or false: Physicians are less likely to counsel men than women about diet, exercise, and weight reduction.
False; women
True or false: Education is a predictor of healthcare utilization.
True
What are some strategies to reduce health disparities?
Within our practice
* Improve cultural effective care
* Health literacy
* Increase awareness of Health Disparities
* Increase political awareness
Leadership
* Capacity building
Funding and research
* Community input on funding priorities/research priorities
* Evidence based research that also includes a social component