Health Literacy
Genetic Determinants of Health
Health Informatics
Cultural Competence
Bonus Category
100

What is the Health People 2030 definition of Health Literacy?

  • Health literacy occurs when a society provides accurate health information and services that people can easily find, understand, and use to inform their decisions and actions.
100

Epigenetics

study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the sequence of the DNA (Sharma, Kelly & Jones, 2010)

100

What is health informatics?

the integration of healthcare sciences, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of healthcare information”

100

Cultural competence:

appropriate and effective communication
that requires one to be willing to listen and learn from members of diverse populations

100

Health literacy is dependent on what factors? 

  • Communication skills of lay persons and professionals
  • Lay and professional knowledge of health topics
  • Culture
  •  Demands of the healthcare and public health systems
  • Demands of the situation/context
200

What are the 3 levels of health literacy?

  • Level 1: Functional health .Ability  to read, write, and understand factual information about health risks.
  • Level 2: Interactive health literacy.  Ability to optimize prevention and self-management
  • Level 3: Critical health literacy. Ability to analyze information and act at individual and community levels
200

Genomics

study of the genome including genomic structure, the interplay of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions, and dynamic influences on gene expression

200

What is nursing informatics?

Nursing informatics is a field of nursing that incorporates nursing, computer, and information sciences to maintain and develop medical data and systems to support the practice of nursing, and to improve patient care outcomes.

200

Cultural awareness

sensitivity to other cultures & beliefs

200

Social gradients of health: 

  • Evidence has shown that mortality increases with decreasing socioeconomic position
  • Not just between low and high socioeconomic positions, but within those levels
  • A suggested factor is difference in social status
  • The assumption is that there is less stress as one goes up the social gradient
300

What are 2 tools used to assess health literacy?

  • REALM- Rapid Estimates of Adult Literacy in Medicine
  • SALHSA-50-Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Spanish Adults
300

Three main mechanisms of how epigenetics: 

  • DNA methylation
  • Histone modification
  • Non-coding RNAs
300

Nursing informatics is a sub specialty in nursing. True or False.

True

300

Cultural congruence

Culturally congruent practice is providing care to a patient while being aware and inclusive of their cultural values, beliefs, and practices.

300

ANA scopes and standards of cultural congruent practice are:

Name 3

400

How does health literacy impacts people?

  • Increased hospital cost
  • Increased chronic conditions.
  • Decreased adherence to treatment plans
  • Increased mortality rate
  • Shame
  • Decreased use of preventative services
  • Difficulty navigating the health care system
400

Pharmacogenomics 

is the study of inherited and genomic differences in drug metabolism and response.

400

Ethnocentric

one's culture is best. 

400

Identify the nurses role in genetics? 

Name 3

500

Which populations of people are most vulnerable for low health literacy?

  • Older adults
  • Those who are poor
  • People with limited education
  • Minority populations
  • Persons with limited English proficiency (LEP)
  •  Immigrants
500

WHO definition of the social determinants of health: 

The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics.

500

Enculturation

Fully internalizes values & develops
programs collaborating with members
of the culture

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