This type of social support involves giving advice.
What is informational support?
100
This kind of area has limited access to large, affordable grocery stores that have fresh produce.
What is a food desert?
100
This is the phenomenon that describes how people aren’t sensitive to small, cumulative costs
What is the peanuts effect?
100
This is achieving the highest level of health for all people.
What is health equity?
100
This man tracked hundreds of patients back to the source of a cholera outbreak
Who is John Snow?
200
Someone offering this type of social support may give you a ride to work.
What is tangible support?
200
This is the section of the USA that has higher rates of diabetes and heart disease.
What is the deep south?
200
This field seeks to unite the basic principles of classic economics with the realities of human psychology.
What is behavioral economics?
200
This hormone protects women from developing heart disease.
What is estrogen?
200
This is is special access or advantages that someone can rely upon without having to think about it or give an extra effort.
What is privilege?
300
This caused eastern European orphans to die before age 2.
What is social isolation (loneliness)?
300
This study showed gall-bladder removal post surgical patients had a better recovery when they had a view of trees from their hospital room.
What is the Hospital Trees Study?
300
This is geographic unit of limited size with relative homogeneity in housing and population.
What is a neighborhood?
300
This is the strongest predictor of health disparities.
What is income?
300
This group experiences the highest infant mortality rates.
Who are non-hispanic blacks?
400
When a wife has this regrading the treatment plan, her husband is more likely to survive after a heart attack.
What is self-efficacy?
400
Social networking and civic engagement are activities that lead to this.
What is social capital?
400
These are disproportionately found in low-income neighborhoods.
What are health related hazards?
400
This phenomenon shows Hispanics live longer than Non-Hispanic Whites & Blacks despite lower SES and greater physical health risk profile.
What is the Hispanic Mortality Advantage?
400
This is the "mother" that Harry Harlow's baby monkeys preferred.
What is the cloth mother?
500
These are the 4 ways of evaluating a social support network.
What are size, density, diversity, and reciprocity?
500
Studies show this leads to fewer sick calls in prisons.
What is contact with nature?
500
These are the 2 goals of Healthy People 2010.
What are increasing quality of life (years of healthy life) and
eliminating health disparities?
500
These are four of the 9 determinants of health
What are biology, genetics, individual behavior, access to health services, socioeconomic status, physical environment, discrimination, literacy levels, are legislative policies
500
These are 4 of the 8 widely-accessible health benefits/policies discussed in class that are due to public health efforts and legislation.
What are vaccines, seat belt laws, safe drinking water, family planning services, reduced tobacco use, safer workplace, pre-natal care, preschool?