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What is the average resting heart rate for a healthy adult?
What is 60–100 beats per minute
The medical term for a fast heart rate
What is Tachycardia?
She is an idealized figure of a caregiver: amiable, loyal, maternal, non-threatening, obedient, and submissive.
What is the "Mammy" stereotype?
Who was the first African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States?
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
What organ pumps blood throughout the body?
What is the heart?
Black women are approximately how many times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women?
About 3 times more likely
The medical terminology for stomach
What is Gastro?
True or False: Black people naturally have a higher pain tolerance than White people.
False.
Who became the first African American to earn a medical degree in the United States?
James McCune Smith
What vitamin does the body produce when the skin is exposed to sunlight?
What is Vitamin D?
Black adults have one of the highest rates of this condition, which affects about 6 in 10 Black adults.
High blood pressure (hypertension)
the exploitation, negligence, and/or blatant disregard for Black women, based on their race and gender, when receiving medical treatment or care
What is "Medical misogynoir"?
What racist myth was historically used to justify the belief that Black women could tolerate childbirth and physical pain better than other women?
What is The “Black women have a higher pain tolerance” myth
This Black physician and scientist made major contributions to blood plasma preservation and blood transfusion.
Who is Charles Drew?
What is the name for the body's defense system that protects it from bacteria, viruses, and other harmful substances?
What is the Immune system?
Black Americans are more likely to develop this condition, which occurs when the body does not make enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin.
What is Anemia?
What is the medical term for high blood pressure?
What is Hypertension?
This physician performed gynecological experiments on enslaved Black women without anesthesia.
J. Marion Sims
What organization was founded in 1895 to advocate for Black physicians and improve healthcare for Black communities?
What is the National Medical Association (NMA)?
This disease affects the body's ability to regulate blood sugar and disproportionately affects Black Americans.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
Black men have a higher risk of developing and dying from this type of cancer compared with other racial groups.
What is Prostate cancer?
What term describes the body's response to injury, infection, or harmful stimuli that can cause swelling, redness, and pain?
What is Inflammation?
True or False: Black people don't need to wear sunscreen because melanin naturally protects their skin from the sun.
False
Henrietta Lacks became famous in medical history because doctors used her cells for research without her knowledge or consent. What were these cells called?
What are HeLa cells?
What term describes the conditions where people live, work, learn, and grow that can affect their health?
What is the Social determinants of health?