Social Determinants of Health
This is one of the five key areas of social determinants of health that focuses on access to and quality of medical services.
What is Health Care System?
This is the main cell material inside the ECM
What is Fibrolasts
What 2 types of movement are there in cell membranes?
Passive and Active
This tells the control center when a body function is out of it's set point.
What is a sensor?
This is the muscle that controls hair folicles.
What is the Arrector pili muscle?
When medical tools are not tested on people with different skins tones, it shows how this social determinant can affect patient outcome.
What is cultural competency?
This group of connective tissue has a gel matrix ECM
What is Cartilage
What does active movement require to go from low to high concentration?
ATP
This process works to maintain steady conditions within the body.
What is homeostatis?
What are the 3 main characteristics of connective tissue structure?
People living in areas with high air pollution are at a higher risk for this chronic respiratory condition.
What is asthma?
What type of fluid connective tissue has a dense ECM and is known to be springy and resilient
What is elastic connective tissue
If a cell membrane is more saturated or packed it has?
Less fluidity
Psoriasis disrupts homeostasis of the skin when there is too much division of these cells.
What is Keratinocytes?
What are the 4 main parts of a neuron?
What are dendrites, cell body, axon, and synapse?
A lack of health insurance often leads people to delay seeking care until diseases are advanced, negatively affecting this aspect of health.
What is early detection?
This type of fluid connective tissue has almost no ECM
What is blood
What are the two parts of a phospholipid?
Phosphate head and fatty acid tails
This skin function is an example of negative feedback?
What is thermoregulation?
This transmembrane protein uses allosteric control in the cell membrane?
What is Ligand-gated channel?
Limited access to quality healthcare, safe housing, and stable income can all contribute to this inequality seen across different populations,
What are health disparities?
This type of cartilage has a low gel ECM
What is fibrous
What is an integral membrane protein that facilitates the movement of molecules and substances through the cell membranes?
Protein channel
This type of feedback mechanism amplifies a change in the body, pushing processes like blood clotting or childbirth to completion rather than maintaining balance.
What is positive feedback?
This is made up of multiple cells that come together to form ____ structures including connective, muscular, nervous, and epithelial
What is tissue