Week 9: Removing Barriers

Question 1

What is health equity

Answer 1

State where eveybody has fair and just opportunity to attain highest health.

Question 2

How does intersectionality influence health equity

Answer 2

• Find the diverse health needs of populaion
  Idenifty barriers in care
  Promot cultural safe care
• Emphasies recognitiion of the diverse needs and find barriers.

Question 3

What are structural barriers?

Answer 3

• In order to do os, barriers of poverty and discrimation must be removed
• consquences such as lack of employment and equal pay
  Dismental the biases

Question 4

Levels of Oppression

Answer 4

1. Overt Oppresion
2. Structural oppression: laws, policies, pratices and entrenched norms
3. Systemic Oppression: entire systems that oppress, legal

Question 5

How can nurses remove these barriers

Answer 5

• certain biases can affect care so removing them is key
• Understand the social determinants that are affecting