Intersectionality
This concept explains why someone may face healthcare barriers that are worse because overlapping identities create a unique kind of disadvantage.
What is intersectionality?
These conditions in which you live, learn, work and age affect your health.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
This is the full name of the APHA
What is the American Public Health Association?
These are the two most common cancer types associated with pesticide, herbicide, and fungicide exposure among farmers in the United States.
What is non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and prostate cancer?
These culturally tailored physical activities were recommended for Korean participants living in New York City enrolled in a randomized-controlled study for diabetes prevention.
What are Yoga and Tai Chi?
This Black American woman created or coined the term Intersectionality.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
This term describes the everyday physical surroundings such as housing quality, access to clean water, sanitation, and safe neighborhoods that shape a person's health independent of their income or education level.
What is the physical/built environment?
Public health researchers now classify this phenomenon, which is responsible for tens of thousands of U.S. deaths a year, as a preventable epidemic rather than solely a criminal justice issue.
What is gun violence?
This strategy provides those who have Substance Use Disorder (SUD) with preventative measures such as Naloxone, clean or new syringes, PrEP or PEP, and access to therapists.
What is Harm Reduction?
This was a novel method used to explore the public health impacts of those left behind due to migration among rural communities in Guatemala.
What is Photovoice?
In Puebla, Indigenous women may face these three intersecting identities that impact their livelihoods and well-being.
What are gender, poverty or socioeconomic status, and ethnicity or indigeneity?
This term represents the state of being equal, where everyone receives the exact same resources, tools, or opportunities.
What is equality?
This ethnic group in the United States is 243% more likely to die from pregancy or childbirth-related causes.
Who are Black/African Americans?
This form of classism showed associations with various mortality outcomes for breast cancer among and within groups of women of economic status in India.
What is caste/Indian caste?
The Diabetes Community Action Project ultimately failed to gain community trust and traction among the Native American community because it was led by someone who was perceived as lacking cultural insight within the community it aimed to serve.
What/Who is an outsider?
A 74-year old blind, Zapotec patient who identifies as a Muxe presents to your clinic for a diabetes check up from Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca. What are four intersecting identities that you should consider to ensure you provide them with the best, respectful, and supportive care?
What are age, disability, ethnicity or indigeneity, and gender identity?
Others: Class, Language, Sexuality
This concept recognizes that people have different circumstances, and therefore need resources and support based on individual needs to ensure a fair outcome.
What is equity?
This term addresses Black, Indigenous and People of Color and low-income communities that are disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards, systemic and structural racism, and disinvestment ultimately impacting their health and well-being.
What is environmental injustice?
This is the year that Armenia began making legislation to prioritize interventions in gender-based violence.
What is 2017?
This research approach involves community members as equal partners in every stage of a study; from identifying the problem to designing the intervention and interpreting results rather than treating them only as subjects to be studied.
What is Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) or Community Engaged Research?
To reveal how health outcomes differ across overlapping identities (ie., Mexicanos vs. Cubanos), researchers rely on this practice of breaking down data by variables like ethnicity, gender, and income rather than reporting only averages across a group (ie, Latinos).
What is data disaggregation?
While equity distributes resources to work around an imbalance, this ultimate goal involves completely dismantling the systemic barriers and "fences" that caused the problem in the first place.
What is justice?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization coined the term "infodemic" to describe the rapid spread of false or misleading health information that spreads as fast as (or faster than) the disease itself, undermining public trust and vaccination efforts.
What is misinformation or health misinformation?
Environmental degradation such as desertification, deforestation, rising sea levels, and the strains of socio-political issues forces millions to leave their homes contributing to this planetary health crisis.
What is displacement and conflict?
In the Guatemalan Photovoice study of rural, Indigenous migrant-sending communities, family members who stayed behind while relatives emigrated to the U.S. described which health impacts that were tied to family separation and migration.
What are mental health impacts of migration?