Test 1 Flashcards
What are the four overarching goals in Healthy People 2020?
High quality longer life free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. Achieve health queity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages
What is illness behavior?
How people monitor their bodies, define and interpret their symptoms and take remedial actions and use the resources in the health care system. Personal history, social situations, social norms, and past experiecnes affect illness behavior.
Internal variables affecting illness behavior
Patient perceptions of symptoms and the nature of the illness
External variables influencing illness behavior
visibility of symptoms, social group, cultural bckground, economic variables, accessibility of healthcare system and social support
Self concept
mental image of strengths and weaknesses in all aspects of personality
Alternative patterns
multiadult households, skip generation families, communal groups with children, non famililes,
family forms
patterns of people considered by family members to be included in the family
ethnicity
shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as values, language, geographical space,a nd racial characteristics.
Race
common biological characteristics shared by a group of people
Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964
If patient doesn’t speak english, must provide information in their language
CLAS
culturaly and linguistically appropriate services in healthcare
Health disparity
differences in incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of disease and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the US
Cultural Literacy
ability to understand and appreciate similarities and differences in ones own culture and other cultures
