Week 5

Question 1

What are disparities?

Answer 1

Differences in health outcomes. caused by socioeconomic disadvantage

Question 2

What are inequities?

Answer 2

Unfair, avoidable differences arising
from poor governance, corruption or cultural exclusion

Question 3

What is considered as the fourth social determinant of health?

Answer 3

racism

Question 4

Define race.

Answer 4

Is an unscientific, socially constructed taxonomy that is based on an ideology that views some human population groups as inherently superior to others on the basis of external physical characteristics or geographic origin. The concept of race is socially meaningful but of limited biological significance.

Question 5

Define ethnicity?

Answer 5

Language of ethnicity moves towards a greater emphasis on; cultural and behavioral attitudes, beliefs, lifestyle patterns, diet, and environmental living conditions.

Question 6

What is segregation?

Answer 6

Identified as the central determinant of the creation and perpetuation of racial inequalities

Question 7

Define the weathering hypothesis.

Answer 7

Marginalized group members are exposed to chronic social and economic adversities, beginning early in life, and lead to accelerated physical health decline in early adulthood.