The DEI Glossary Says
The term we use when we want each individual or group of people to be given the same resources or opportunities
What is Equality?
In 2021, this was the leading cause of death in Michigan
Heart disease
This term includes the buildings we live in, the systems that provide us with water and electricity, and the roads, bridges, and transportation systems we use to get from place to place.
What is the Built Environment?
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ?
This organization is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
This term means providing tailored approaches based on need while building better outcomes for historically and currently disadvantaged populations.
What is Equity
The percentage of Michiganders who reported having no Health insurance in 2021.
6%
This is an illegal discriminatory practice in which a mortgage lender denies loans or an insurance provider restricts services to certain areas of a community, often because of the racial or ethnic characteristics of the applicant’s neighborhood.
What is redlining?
SVI
What is the Social Vulnerability Index?
This organization combines the oversight of the Medicare program, the federal portion of the Medicaid program and State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and related quality assurance activities.
What is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)?
A significant difference in outcome that separates a group from a reference point on a particular measure regardless of the underlying reasons
What is a Disparity?
In 2021, this racial/ethnic group reported the highest rates of being uninsured at 13%?
Hispanic/Latine
THIS is generally defined as housing on which the occupant is paying no more than 30 percent of gross income for housing costs
What is Affordable Housing?
CLAS
What Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services ?
This organization was founded in 1965 and its mission is to improve the health of communities by strengthening and advocating for local health departments.
What is National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)?
The fair, just and equitable distribution of and access to public services, social resources and implementation of public policy necessary to achieve well-being and thrive.
In 2021, __ in 10 adults in MI reported having a disability (defined as having serious difficulty hearing, visual impairment, difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions, difficulty walking or climbing stairs, difficulty dressing )or bathing, or difficulty doing errands alone.
What is 3
(or 28.7%)
A process in which a poor area (neighborhood, or a city) experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses which results in an increase in property values and property cost, and includes the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents.
What is Gentrification?
BRFSS
What is the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System?
This organization represents the public health agencies of all 50 states in the United States, the District of Columbia, the five U.S. territories, and the three freely associated states.
What is the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)?
The condition where one’s racial identity has no influence on how one fares in society. An inclusive approach to transform structures toward access, justice, self-determination, redistribution, and the sharing of power and resources.
As of July 1 2023, ___ in 10 of MI residents age 5+ have had a COVID-19 vaccine booster.
What is 4
(or 38.9%)
Public Health scientists have shown that THIS percentage of your health outcomes is determined solely by your zip code.
What is 60%?
VPDs
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
The stated mission of this organization is to lead scientific research to improve minority health and eliminate health disparities.
What is the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)?