Dispari-Terms
This term refers to differences in health outcomes and access to healthcare among different demographic groups.
What is a health disparity?
Income, education, and occupation are examples of these factors influencing health disparities.
What are socioeconomic factors?
Cultural competence in healthcare refers to understanding and addressing these unique cultural needs.
What is cultural competence?
Strategies to address health disparities should prioritize_____________approach
What is prevention, early detection, and targeted interventions?
This report first documented the health status disparities of minority groups in the United States.
What was the 1985 Secretary's Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health?
This is a key factor contributing to health disparities among disparate populations.
What is socioeconomic status?
The group often experiencing higher rates of health disparities due to language barriers and limited access to healthcare information.
Who are immigrant populations?
: The "social determinants of health" refer to economic and social conditions influencing individual and group differences in health status, not genetic factors.
What are economic and social conditions?
The major contributor to health disparities in rural populations.
What is limited access to healthcare facilities and providers?
One of the primary aims of the _____________ consisted of consultation and collaboration among federal agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; and community professionals to research and address issues of education, income, environment, and other socioeconomic factors that affect health outcomes, and ultimately, health equity.
What is the Race and Health Initiative?
Disparate populations often experience higher rates of chronic diseases due to what?
What is limited access to healthcare?
Access to healthcare services, transportation, and healthcare facilities is considered determinant of __________
What is health equity?
The population often facing challenges related to mental health stigma and lack of appropriate mental health services.
Who are LGBTQ+ individuals?
The World Health Organization defines health as _________.
What is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being?
This agency produces annual reports to track changes in health disparities and proposes strategies to eliminate them.
What is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with the National Health Care Quality and Disparities Reports?
A community health intervention aimed at reducing health disparities should focus on this approach
What is tailoring programs to meet the needs of specific populations?
Health disparities are influenced by __________, not high-income levels
What is racism and discrimination?
The concept of intersectionality in health disparities recognizes the interconnectedness of various social identities and their impact on health outcomes.
What is the concept of intersectionality?
This initiative aims to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity.
What is the Healthy People Initiative?
This CDC program educates and empowers people to seek needed health services, particularly in underserved communities.
What is the CDC's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program?
Lower rates of insurance coverage among certain populations are an example of this type of health disparity related to access to healthcare.
What is a health disparity related to health insurance coverage?
The Affordable Care Act aimed to reduce health disparities by expanding Medicaid coverage to more low-income individuals, not limiting healthcare options.
What is expanding Medicaid coverage?
Disparities in infant mortality rates among different racial and ethnic groups are an example of_________
What is health inequality?
This report provided a blueprint to confront racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
What is the Institute of Medicine's report, "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care"?
This initiative set a goal to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities by 2010 and launched the President's Initiative on Race.
What is the President's Initiative on Race, or "One America in the 21st Century"?