Category A
This term is defined as discriminatory acts and ideologies targeted towards individuals because of their body size.
Weight stigma
A mechanism (loop) in a system that resists further changes in one direction. It counters change in one direction with a change in the opposite direction. It seeks to stabilize a system.
Balancing
A landmark U.S. federal statute, which was the U.S. healthcare system's most significant regulatory overhaul and expansion of coverage since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
Some know it better by its nickname which was inspired by the president who signed it into law.
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
The conditions in the environments
where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age
that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
Social Determinants of Health
A family restaurant frequented by Andy Davis and his "friends". The establishment is identifiable by its unique design employing a space theme.
Pizza Planet
A discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
Redlining
A troublesome type of feedback loop than can lead to instability in a system.
Reinforcing
Daily Double!
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Chicago has the biggest gap in life expectancy across zip codes in the United States. How many years is this gap?
30
In 1998 this flick became the second Pixar movie ever released.
A Bug's Life
OK, so my BMI isn't so great, but I have ideal levels of blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and blood pressure. There is a term for this...
Metabolically healthy
Places within a system where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes. For example, intervening on a reinforcing feedback loop.
Leverage point
A federal healthcare provisions states that employers must offer affordable/minimum value medical coverage to their full-time employees and their dependents up to the end of the month in which they turn age 26, or they may be subject to penalties. However, this only applies to employers that have more than this many full time employees.
50
A government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments.
Medicaid
If you are struggling to swim at the Goo Lagoon, do not fret. This friendly fella will be there to save you.
Larry the Lobster
This type of body fat really bad for us. It is in our abdominal region and it surrounds our internal organs.
Visceral
When the goal of a well-intentioned initiative does not align with the goals of the actors in a system, the actors are likely to revolt causing the initiative to fail.
Policy resistance
Type of prevention that is focused on avoiding the development of a disease in the first place. An annual physical, for example.
Primary prevention
A unique housing mobility demonstration that tested whether offering housing vouchers to families living in public housing projects in high-poverty neighborhoods of large cities could improve their lives and the lives of their children by allowing them to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. Interestingly, participants in this program saw modest but significant improvements in health.
Moving to Opportunity
Lord Farquaad conducts an interrogation to determine who is sheltering his missing fairy tail creatures. He receives little information, and the character is never identified, but we do learn this that she is married to this character of fairytale lore.
She's married to the muffin man!
A type of bias that occurs when an individual mistakes a visible successful subgroup as the entire group. For example, when we think goal setting works because the winner set a goal of winning.
Survivorship bias
All systems contain these three components.
Elements, interconnections, functions/purpose
A government national health insurance program in the United States. It primarily provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older, but also for some younger people with disability status.
Medicare
A federal healthcare provision that required individuals to purchase minimum essential coverage – or face a tax penalty – unless they were eligible for an exemption.
Individual mandate
This long-awaited sequel proved to be worth the wait as it remains atop the list of highest grossing Pixar films.
Incredibles II