Understanding Health Inequities
A term that is used when everyone has equitable access to healthcare and resources.
What is health equity?
Discrimination due to ideas, stereotypes, or attitudes that may commonly be held by society towards a particular group
What is stigma?
SES is a major determinant of this disease, which includes conditions like heart attacks and strokes?
Cardiovascular disease
This region type generally has less access to trauma centers and specialty physicians, increasing health risks for residents.
What is rural?
This federal insurance program provides health coverage for low-income individuals and families.
What is Medicaid?
When different groups have different access to resources and healthcare, and some suffer from it more than others.
What are health disparities?
When one has a certain attitude towards someone else or community without realizing that they have it
What is implicit bias?
A cycle of illness and poverty are often perpetuated by this financial burden of the health care system.
What is the cost of healthcare/lack of health insurance?
This term describes areas or regions that lack access to healthy, nutritious food.
What are food deserts?
This federal policy, outlawed in 1968, had long-lasting health effects by concentrating poverty and pollution exposure.
What is redlining?
Location, places of work, food access, socioeconomic status, and healthcare access are examples of this.
What are social determinants of health?
Patients with the following condition experience frequent discomfort and typically have to wait long to receive treatment as their condition is not taken as seriously.
What is chronic pain?
People with lower SES are less likely to have access to this form of medicine that is crucial for early detection of disease.
What is preventative medicine?
What group of chemicals are forever chemicals that fail to easily break down in the environment and in the body?
What is PFAS//PFOA?
This 2010 law expanded Medicaid in many states and aimed to reduce health disparities through community health initiatives.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
A trait one possesses when one has the ability to interact with people of different backgrounds and cultures.
What is cultural competency?
The following epidemic demonstrates how stigma can result in a higher mortality rate, particularly for historically marginalized groups such as the LGBTQ+ community.
What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
People with lower SES are more likely to experience this condition as a result of chronic stress.
What is hypertension/high blood pressure?
Low-income housing is often located near areas that flood, making residents more susceptible to what events?
Natural disasters
In 2021, the Biden administration launched this federal program to tackle environmental injustices in marginalized communities.
What is Justice40?
The two levels at which health equity should be approached.
What are systemic and individual?
Because of this dynamic, patients are sometimes intimidated and are afraid of voicing their concerns about a certain treatment plan to a doctor.
What is patient-doctor power dynamic?
People with lower SES are more likely to work jobs that expose them to this category of workplace disparity.
What is occupational health disparity?
According to the GAO, on average, how much longer do rural residents have to travel relative to urban residents to get inpatient care?
What is 20 miles?
What group in Boston trained the Community Healthcare Workers program to support low-income patients with chronic illnesses, resulting in better medication adherence and reduced hospitalization?
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