Module 2
This model uses a continuum scheme to represent a trajectory through stages of increasing cultural proficiency which identifies six stages of competence development: cultural destructiveness, cultural incapacity, cultural blindness, cultural pre-competence, cultural competence, and cultural proficiency.
What is cultural competence?
The web of social relationships that surround individuals, and provides several functions, including social influence, social control, social undermining, social comparison, companionship, and social support.
What is social network?
A heuristic, or experimental, device for organizing components of a domain of phenomena in order to show relationships between those components and the outcome of interest.
What is model?
True or False: Abortion is an indicator of unmet need for contraceptives.
What is true?
A community is a group of people with a shared sense of belonging, shared values and symbols, and shared constraints or conditions.
What is true?
Which of the following are key issues that need to be addressed in order to effectively address health disparities in our society.
-Increase community awareness of disparities as problems with solutions
-Set priorities among disparities to be addressed at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels
-Articulate valid reasons to expend resources to reduce and ultimately eliminate priority disparities
-All of the above
What is all of the above?
Defined as the aid and assistance exchanged through social relationships and interpersonal transactions.
What is social support?
Constructs of the health belief model.
What are the key assumptions about reproductive health?
-Involves physical, mental, and social well-being
-Is relevant to people at all stages
-All of the above
What is all of the above?
This community organizing model is said to be task oriented, because it emphasizes the technical aspects of problem-solving. Its underlying assumption is that social problems are so complex that communities need professionals with specialized expertise so that they, not the community members, would guide and control the change efforts.
What is social planning model?
What is health behavior model?
What is racial-genetic model?
What is expectancy model?
What is socioeconomic?
This theory emphasizes the importance of cognitive capacities and biases in human adaptation and behavior change; rather than viewing people as being purely reactive. It views individuals as being proactive agents with the capacity to process information, adapt, and self-regulate as well as construct their environments according to their purposes. It has been applied to a wide range of behaviors, such as physical activity, cardiovascular disease reduction, alcohol abuse, and nutrition.
What is social cognitive theory?
Victoria Champion is participating in a research study about the severity of breast cancer. One of the surveys assesses how serious people believe breast cancer to be. What construct of the Health Belief Model is the survey assessing?
What is perceived severity?
The main cause of death for 15 to 19 year old girls globally.
What is teen pregnancy?
A community organizing efforts that increases an individuals’ perceived control over their lives, their critical awareness of their social context, and their political efficacy and participation in change.
What is empowerment?
This model can be attributed to differences in the prevalence of specific behavioral factors for health and illness. An example would be racial and ethnic differences in tobacco use as contributing to differences in chronic disease mortality rates from cancer and heart disease, or ethnic differences in diet and physical activity as contributing to differences in obesity, which is a risk factor for diabetes and cancer.
The key constructs of the social cognitive theory.
What is reciprocal determinism, self-efficacy, expectations, and perceived benefits?
Constructs from the Theory of Planned Behavior
What is attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, behavioral intention, social norms, perceived power?
Name the four reproductive health indicators.
What is fertility and infertility, sexually transmitted infections, abortion, and safe motherhood?
A community organizing effort to prevent HIV in active drug users may work with drug users to help them examine how their health risk might be related to larger social conditions, understand that their HIV risk can change, and that they could mobilize collectively to change their risk of HIV, such as creating healthy peer norms, providing safe areas in which drug users can take the time to perform safe injection practices, and advocating for greater access to health and social resources for their community.
What is critical consciousness?
The five levels of the social ecological model
What is intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy level?
A physician changing a patient’s expectations regarding the goal of chronic pain management so that they would expect living a full life with pain rather than expecting to live a completely pain-free life is an example of which construct within the social cognitive theory.
What is expectations?
A study is assessing physical activity among study participants. One survey assessed directly a person’s belief about whether most people approve or disapprove of being physically active. Indirectly it assessed beliefs regarding the approval or disapproval of key individuals with respect to performing the behavior, and measured the person’s motivation to act in accordance with what key individuals want the person to do. What construct of the Theory of Planned Behavior are the surveys assessing?
What is subjective norm?
The leading cause of disease-related disability among women.
What is maternal depression?
This model of communtiy organizing aims to build group identity and sense of community by improving the process by which things get done. So, this process-oriented model creates an infrastructure for community action, in other words, its goal is to build community capacity to deal with issues that arise in their community. That’s why this model is said to be process-oriented, because it gives a lot of attention to the process of getting people together to discuss their community’s concerns and developing plans to address them, both of which are necessary for effective community development.
What is locality development model?