Health Communication
This often employed health communication strategy in the U.S. relies off of scaring people into a healthy choice by making them afraid of a negative health outcome. This strategies has mixed levels of effectiveness
What is "fear-mongering"?
This waste is often generated by high income countries and then sold to low income countries to dispose of despite significant health impacts to the receiving county's population
What is E-waste?
Higher levels of education have this impact on life expectancy
What is increases?
As opposed to have 0-14 vacation days a year, this country provide about 2 months a year to its workers
What is Italy?
This potential policy solution can help to increase healthcare access in the U.S.
What is ... (universal healthcare, medicaid expansion, increasing number of providers, decreasing profit incentives in healthcare, regulating health insurance companies, saving rural clinics, proving more tele-health options)
This core U.S. belief leads people to believe health achieved at an individual level and not influenced by larger societal structures
What is individualism?
One explanation for the differences in historic environmental investment and infrastructure between Green Lake and the Central District
What is redlining?
This racial identity group has the lowest average life expectancy in the U.S.
What is Indigenous populations?
Despite having some similarly poor individual health habit to the U.S., this country cultural and societal practices have lead it to have highest life expectancy of any other country
What is Japan?
This potential policy solution can help to limit food insecurity in the U.S.
What is ... (ridding of food desserts, school lunch reforms, education regarding nutrition, making health options affordable, increasing wages, allowing people access to traditional foods)
This research method (often used in Indigenous communities) has participants take photos of their day to day experience and then talk about what they mean and show
What is Photo Voice?
A social movement addressing the injustice that has occured to poor or marginalized communities harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit from.
What is Environmental Justice?
This is one of the greatest predictors for one's health outcomes and life expectancy in the U.S?
What is Socioeconomic Economic Status/Poverty?
While this amendment failed in the U.S., this country added women's rights to their constitution after its revolution, leading to it providing free reproductive health to its citizens
What is Tunisia?
This policy solution/approach could increase the amount of tax revenue available which in turn could be spent on increasing health in communities
What is progressive tax structures/tax reform/closing tax loopholes?
This health communication strategy uses the experience of individuals to explain public health topics in a relatable and emotion oriented fashion
What is Individual Stories/Appeals to Personal Experience?
These childhood traumas that can occur in the family, one's culture, or lived environment has a significant impact on health outcomes and risk taking behavior in adult life
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)?
This is one of the causes of inequities between white people and people of color in medical outcomes even when income is controlled for
What is medical racism?
What is Russia?
This policy helps to level the playing field by providing money or other compensation to communities who have been previously harmed and exploited in the U.S.
What is reparations?
This phenomenon, common during COVID-19, is often present in controversial public health topics, leading to health decision and opinions of the public being influenced beyond science and medical recommendations
What is politicalization?
The name for the continued oppression of a country through another country holding economic and/or political power/control over them
What is neocolonialism?
Black mothers are more than 3x times as lively to experience this medical complication than white mothers
What is maternal mortality?
Unlike the U.S.'s private health care system, this country uses a community-based, government run model where communities have smaller clinics where medicines and health needs can be addressed for free
What is Cuba?
This potential policy solution could improve health outcomes for children in the U.S.
What is...(Child incentive, paid family leave, universal pre-school, decreasing poverty, decreasing causes of maternal stress, creating safe neighbor spaces)