Social Determinants of Health
These are the environmental conditions that affect health, functioning, and quality of life and are a main focus of Healthy People 2030.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
The goal of education programs for healthcare professionals is to recognize this unconscious influence in order to remain culturally competent, judgment‑free, and fair in patient care
What is implicit bias?
This nursing theory focuses on the close relationships among culture, care, well‑being, health, illness, and death.
What is Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing Care?
This approach recognizes, values, and supports the coexistence of multiple cultures within the healthcare environment.
What is multiculturalism?
This 2020–2030 report emphasizes the nurse’s role in planning, implementing, and evaluating care to achieve health equity.
What is The Future of Nursing 2020–2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity?
Healthcare workers of color were more likely to perform this high‑risk activity during the COVID‑19 pandemic.
What is caring for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID‑19?
According to Leininger, nurses use this approach to deliver care that is safe, meaningful, and aligned with a patient’s culture.
What is culturally congruent care?
This concept emphasizes interaction and communication between different cultures to improve patient understanding and care
What is cross‑culturalism?
This organization sets Healthy People goals and tracks national progress toward achieving health equity.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
Compared to other healthcare workers, workers of color were nearly twice as likely to experience this outcome during the COVID‑19 pandemic.
What is testing positive for the coronavirus?
Culture develops over time and is influenced by members’ familial and social environments.
What is a learned and evolving system shared by a group?
(or simply: What is culture?)
This nursing and healthcare approach goes beyond understanding differences to integrate care practices across cultures.
What is trans culturalism?
This major health reform law aimed to reduce health disparities by expanding insurance coverage and improving access to care.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Expanding the use of this workforce helps address health and social service needs within communities of color.
What are community health workers?
This characteristic of culture explains how beliefs and practices are learned, shared, and passed from one generation to the next.
What is cultural transmission?
Being aware of personal biases, minimizing generalizations, and asking relevant questions are essential steps in developing this professional skill.
What is cultural competency?
This global public health crisis exposed and widened existing health disparities across communities.
What is the COVID‑19 pandemic?
Strengthening this skill among healthcare providers nationwide is a key strategy for reducing health disparities and promoting health equity.
What is cultural competency?
This cultural trait explains why deeply rooted beliefs are essential for survival and acceptance but often change slowly and with difficulty.
What is cultural resistance to change?
Listening, politeness, relevant communication, and creating a safe environment for questions reflect this core value necessary for diverse healthcare teams and patients.
What is respectful and effective communication?