Social Determinants of Health
Health Topics
Historical Context
Research
Wild Card
100


You can predict the life expectancy of a child by the ______ they grew up in.


What is zip code?

100

High blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, obesity, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity are all risk factors for this disease.


What is heart disease? 

100

Drugs meant for the treatment of this disease were tested on NYC foster children in the 1990s.

What is HIV/AIDS?

100

When conducting research it is important to have this type of competency about the communities you are working with.


What is cultural competency?

100

The ninth month of the Muslim year, a period of fasting during which there is strict abstinence during daylight from food, drink and perfume. 

What is Ramadan? 

200


These are the differences in health and health care between groups that stem from broader inequities


What are health disparities?
200

90/60mmHg and 120/80mmHg represent the measure of this.

What is the ideal blood pressure? 

200

To track the full progression of syphilis, researchers provided no effective care as this study's African American participants experienced severe health problems including blindness, mental impairment—or death.


What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?

200

This should always be included when reporting on your study to honestly communicate aspects that could have threatened validity and/or introduced bias.

What are study limitations?

200

In 2012 this sports team moved to Brooklyn. They call the Barclays home.


Who are the Brooklyn Nets?

300


This is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.


What is health equity?

300

Underweight, Normal weight, Overweight, and Obese are categories of this.

What is the Body Mass Index? 

300

I am known as the Father of Gynecology. I used the non- consenting bodies of Black women being held captive as slaves for the foundations of my research.


Who is J. Marion Simms?


300

When individuals recall lower than actual rates of unhealthy food intake is an example of which type of bias?

This is an example of recall bias.

300

Relax, breathe, and tell me: a Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism shares what Z-word name with a state of calm attentiveness.

What is zen?

400

Economic stability and education are both considered examples of this.


What are social determinants of health?

400

Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, asthma, arthritis, and Alzheimer's disease are examples of this.

What is chronic disease?

400

My cells were the used without my consent as the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to cells in zero gravity.


Who is Henrietta Lacks?

400

The variable that is manipulated by the researcher. As the researcher changes this variable, s/he observes what happens.

What is an independent variable? 

400

In the 2005 remake of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" starring Johnny Depp, the clandestine candy creator's father worked in what occupation? Hint: some may call the occupation ironic, some may call it coincidental.

What is a dentist?

500

Being wealthy is the best predictor of this health outcome.

What is a living longer?

500

This refers to rules, norms, routines, patterns of attitudes and behavior in institutions and other societal structures that represent obstacles to groups or individuals in achieving the same rights and opportunities that are available to the majority of the population. 

What is structural racism?

500

Forced sterilization of women was performed here from 1937-1969.

What is Puerto Rico?

500

Cross sectional study, case control study, and cohort study

What are the types of analytic study? 

500

When “Welcome to the Party” became one of hip-hop's songs of the summer in 2019, this 20- year-old MC with a throwback New York vibe was just getting started.


Who is POP Smoke?

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