Culture & EDI
This term refers to a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, norms, and values among a group of people.
What is culture?
Refer to deficits in health status or access to health care between different populations of people. (Not social determinants of health)
What are health disparities?
This domain of learning focuses on knowledge and intellectual abilities, such as remembering and understanding information.
What is the cognitive domain?
An approach to healthcare that ensures individuals' values and preferences guide all aspects of their care.
What is person-centred care?
This theory explains how different components within a health care organization interact to function effectively.
What is system's theory?
This concept focuses on redistributing power and resources in a healthcare relationship to create an inclusive environment.
What is cultural safety?
This level of prevention includes screenings and early detection strategies to identify diseases in their early stages.
What is secondary prevention?
A model that examines a person's perception of their risk to get a disease and ability to change.
What is the Health Belief Model?
These include vulnerable populations, individuals with multimorbid chronic conditions, children, and older adults.
This publicly funded program provides hospital and medical insurance to all Canadians.
What is medicare?
Process of adapting to and adopting characteristics of a new culture.
What is acculturation?
Two examples of how a country measures the health of a population such as longevity and death rates.
mortality, life expectancy, incidence and prevalence of a disease, birth rate
Refers to a person's ability to obtain, process, and understand health information in order to make informed decisions.
What is health literacy?
These professionals connect patients with healthcare providers, schedule appointments, and track outcomes.
What are case managers?
One focuses on individual health services, while the other is broader and includes health promotion and disease prevention.
What is the difference between primary care and primary health care?
Theory that discuses social inequalities in health and examines how social injustice causes harm to people.
What is the Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution?
This model examines how multiple levels, from individual behaviors to government policies, influence population health.
What is the Social Ecological Model?
This teaching strategy involves having the patient repeat the information to confirm if they understood or not.
What is teach-back method?
This model focuses on quality health outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost-effectiveness rather than service volume.
What is the value-based care model?
This approach moves health care decision-making to regional authorities.
What is regionalization?
When all people have the same odds of being healthy and the burden of disease is distributed equally across all populations.
What is Health Justics?
This document, created in 1986, outline five key strategies for health promotion, including developing personal skills and creating supportive environments.
What is the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?
According to the Transtheoretical Model of Change, this stage is when a person intends to take action soon but has not yet started.
What is the contemplation stage?
Before a patient leaves the hospital, this process ensures they have follow-up care, medication instructions, and support.
What is discharge planning?
Public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, and accessibility are these.
What are the 5 principles of the Canada Health Act?