Black Mental Health
Solutions to helping others around you suffering from mental health issues
What is "doing genuine check-ins"
"Be a listening ear and someone to congregate with"
Definition of maternal morbidity
Definition of food deserts
What is "geographic areas that lack access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food rural and inner-city"
How often should we get a physical?
What is yearly?
Solutions to overcoming social justice fatigue
What is "taking things in moderation"
"Make time for self care"
"Form boundaries"
"Be strategic in your social media usage"
Definition of Structural Racism
What is "the normalization of systems that produce chronic adverse outcomes for people of color"
Explain the costs of having more food (What do we lose in the process of producing more food)
What is "industrialization of food industry comes at a cost of the quality of the food"
"There is an increase in chemicals added to food to promote efficiency"
Common health disparities within the black community
What is "health coverage" "chronic health conditions" "mental health"
Barriers to mental health
What is "lack of congregation as a coping mechanism"
"cultural incompetency and a history of bad care"
"mental health stigmatization in the black community"
Types of Rapid Urbanization
What is "gentrification"
"Uneven development"
"Urban sprawl"
What is "crop rotation to control soil erosion"
"organic farming" "family farms"
"community-supported agriculture"
"farmers markets" "school gardens" "slow food"
Ways patient advocate for themselves
What is "coming to physicians with questions"
"speaking up when something is wrong"
"don't be afraid to ask any question you may have"
Common stigmas of mental health
What is "Black people don't go to therapy"?
"If you are dealing with a mental health issue you aren't connected with your faith enough."
"Black men don't cry"
"Black women are always strong"
What is "employment impacts income and access to housing"
"School choices affects career options"
"Housing discrimination creates segregated residencies and forms unequal opportunities"
What is "coexistence of stunting and overweight/obesity in the same region, household, or person."
Leading cause of death in the African American Community
What is "heart disease, cancer, stroke"
What is "doing something (ex. hiring a person who belongs in a minority group) only to prevent criticism and give the appearance that people are being treated fairly"
"In spaces that lack diversity, black people feel as though you must carry the weight of representing their entire community.
The likelihood of black women being affected by maternal morbidity.
(1x, 2x, 3x, etc..)
Describe the situation with equity in food production (working in food production)
What is "labor in the agriculture and sales section of the food industry is contingent work"
"Working conditions in agriculture are subpar, give little benefits and promote low wages"
Definition of cultural humility
What is "having traits of respect, empathy, and critical self-reflection of both interpersonal and intrapersonal levels"