Catholic Social Tradition
History of the ACA
Health Disparities
Guest Speakers
Washington D.C.
100

This CST principle serves as the foundation for all other principles of social teaching; it is based on the belief that humans are made in “the image and likeness of God”

What is Life and Dignity of the Human Person?

100

Unofficial/polarizing name of the ACA

What is Obamacare?

100

These are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes, such as housing, employment, and social environment.

What are social determinants of health?

100

The clinic where Dr. Gingerich works

What is Maple City Health Care Center?

100

Main train station center in D.C.

What is Union Station?

200

This CST principle holds a particular importance in our class, as we focus on the marginalized in our society in relation to healthcare access

What is the Preferential Option for the Poor?

200

In this year, the ACA was signed into law by President Obama

What is 2010?

200

Because the USA has higher rates of _______ than do other developed democracies, ________ might have contributed to the country’s lagging performance on health indicators such as life expectancy.

What is incarceration?

200

According to Dr. Fox, the average American has this ACE score

What is 1.5?

200

Our Lodging Center for Immersion

What is the Washington Seminar Center?

300

This CST principle holds that “we are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences”

What is Solidarity?

300

The portion of the ACA that requires U.S. citizens and legal residents to have qualifying health coverage. Those without coverage pay a tax penalty.

What is the individual mandate?

300

This term refers to the totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice.

What is structural racism?

300

The Senators of Indiana

Who is Senator Mike Braun and Senator Todd Young?

300
The largest library in the world
What is the Library of Congress?
400

This saint, canonized in 2016, dedicated her life to CST principles, such as preferential option for the poor and the common good. She founded the Missionaries of Charity and focused her life on serving the vulnerable in India.

Who is St. Teresa of Calcutta?

400

The full name of the ACA

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

400

Because the social determinants of health have such a profound impact on health outcomes, we now say that a person’s _________ is far more important than their genetic code in determining health outcomes (Jutte et al., 2015; Lavizzo-Mourey, 2012).

What is zip code?

400

Dr. Mark Fox's PhD degree

What is Religion, Ethics, and Society?
400

The landmark where Dr. King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963

What is the Lincoln Memorial?

500

Pope Francis released this encyclical in 2015, referring specifically to the CST principle of “care for God’s creation”. This encyclical is also the foundation for the Notre Dame Forum this year.

What is Laudato Si?

500

Name four states that have not expanded Medicaid in 2021

What is Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Tennessee, Texas, or Alabama?

500

Name two social determinants of health that we have discussed in class.

What is neighborhood and physical environment, economic health and stability, health care access and quality, and education quality and access?

500

A health center that provides primary outpatient services and opportunities for employment for the community, often while working to meet community initiatives. These services target health disparities and work to empower underserved areas with high-quality patient care. Maple City Health Care Center is an example of one.

What is a federally-qualified health center (FQHC)?

500

The statue on top of the dome of the Capitol

What is the Statue of Freedom?

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