Cultural Concepts
This term refers to the shared values, beliefs, traditions, and practices of a group.
What is culture?
These are differences in health outcomes that are related to social, economic, or environmental hardship.
What are health disparities?
Unconscious attitudes that precede unintentional discrimination
What is implicit bias?
Insurance for low-income children not eligible for Medicaid
What is CHIP?
This concept involves having an informed understanding of one's own feelings and thoughts about cultural differences.
What is cultural awareness?
This includes listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills related to understanding health information.
What is health literacy?
Discrimination or unequal treatment on the basis of membership in a particular ethnic group, arising from systems, structures, or expectations that have become established within society or an institution.
What is systemic racism?
Insurance for low-income individuals who cannot afford health insurance by other means, federally and state funded
What is Medicaid?
This term describes the ability to deliver care that values the differences in others and includes their preferences.
What is cultural competence?
This AACN competency involves a commitment to the health of vulnerable populations and the elimination of health disparities.
What is advocating for social justice?
Simplified and standardized beliefs about a group of people
What is sterotyping?
Insurance for adults older than 65 or individuals younger than 65 with disability
What is Medicare?
This term refers to subgroups within a culture that have distinguishing characteristics from the main culture.
What are subcultures?
This concept refers to equal opportunity to reach optimal health status.
What is health equity?
Demonstration of conscious preference or aversion towards a person or group.
What is explicit bias?
Insurance plan that ensures preventive care access, dependent eligibility until the age of 26, and removal of lifetime limits, overseen by the federal government.
What is the Affordable Care Act/Marketplace/Obamacare?