Health Terms
What is meant by cause?
What directly leads to something.
What are Health Disparities?
Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities.
In 2024 Black American Adults were ___ percent more likely than U.S. adults overall to have diabetes.
In 2024, Black/African American adults were 24% more likely than U.S adults overall to have diabetes
Health disparities are primarily observed what populations?
Health disparities are primarily observed among racial/ethnic minority populations and/or low socioeconomic status groups.
What is meant by contributor?
Something that increases the risk of something else.
Commonly known unethical medial experiment mentioned in the slides.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
In 2023, the mortality rate for Black/African American infants was ____ higher than that of infants nationwide
In 2023, the mortality rate for Black/African American infants was 95% higher than that of infants nationwide
What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
A Study in which Black males were deliberately targeted, exploited, and denied medical treatment. Where researchers wanted to observe the natural progression of untreated, late-stage syphilis in Black men.
What does the infant mortality rate refer to?
Refers to the death of a baby between 1 day and 1 year old.
Why is medical mistrust high in Black American populations?
Due to an ongoing racial bias within the medical field and a mistrust of physicians born from a history of unethical mistreatment.
Black women are ____more likely to die of breast cancer than white women
Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women
What is intersectionality in terms of disparities?
How overlapping social identities—such as race, gender, class, and sexuality—come together to create unique, interlocking systems of discrimination and inequality.
What is a basic definition of diabetes?
A chronic condition causing high blood sugar because the body cannot properly produce or use insulin.
Why do health disparities exist?
An intersection of individual, genetic, and environmental risk factors produces health disparities.
In 2024, Black/African American adults were ___ less likely than U.S adults overall to report having a mental illness in the past year
In 2024, Black/African American adults were 11% less likely than U.S adults overall to report having a mental illness in the past year
Health is recognized as a human right by....
World Health Organization and international law.
What is the definition of a stroke?
A medical emergency that occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel bursts.
How do structural inequalities affect the health of Black American adults?
Structural inequalities & systemic racism produce a lifetime of exposure to stress (chronic stress) for many Black/African American adults, directly impacting their health, particularly their cardiovascular health.
Black adults account for over ___ heart failure hospitalizations among U.S adults under 50.
Black adults account for over 50% of heart failure hospitalizations among U.S adults under 50.
Disparities influence aspects such as... only need to say one that was mentioned
Influences life expectancy, mortality, health status, and prevalence of illness.