Latinx Priority Population
This product, which can contain nicotine and often comes in flavors, is the most commonly used product among Latinx youth, despite lower rates of traditional cigarette smoking among adults.
What is e-cigarettes or vaping?
What is the most used among LGBTQIA+ youth?
a) cannabis
b) cigarettes
c) tobacco
d) e-cigarettes
What is d) e-cigarettes?
________ flavored cigarettes were used to target the African-American population.
a) Fruit
b) Menthol
c) Sweet
d) Rum
What is b) menthol?
Question: Which of the following best defines a health disparity?
A. A difference in quality of care that is unrelated to how patients feel.
B. A preventable difference in the burden of disease, injury, or violence that is experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
C. A disagreement between a doctor and a patient over a diagnosis.
D. A difference in hospital costs between two different states.
Answer: What is B. A preventable difference in the burden of disease, injury, or violence that is experienced by socially disadvantaged populations?
What jail in the city of Dublin has been described as inhumane due to a history of lawsuits, in-custody deaths, and allegations of inadequate mental health care and poor conditions, particularly for inmates with disabilities?
What is Santa Rita Jail?
The phenomenon where Latinx immigrants often exhibit better health outcomes than U.S.-born Latinx individuals, which diminishes across successive generations, is known by this term.
A. The Immigrant Resilience Effect
B. The Acculturation Paradox
C. The Latino Health Paradox
D. The Generational Disparity Model
Answer: What is C. The Latino Health Paradox (or Hispanic Paradox)?
This is the primary social factor cited by the Minority Stress Model that explains the elevated rates of substance use among LGBTQIA+ individuals as a coping mechanism.
Answer: What is stigma, discrimination, or prejudice?
Question: Despite African-American adult smokers often consuming fewer cigarettes per day than White adult smokers, they absorb a greater amount of nicotine from each cigarette. This physiological difference is often cited as a reason for:
A. Higher prevalence of vaping among African-American youth.
B. Greater difficulty in quitting smoking and lower long-term quit rates.
C. Lower lifetime rates of developing Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
D. The increased likelihood of starting smoking at a young age.
Answer: What is B. Greater difficulty in quitting smoking and lower long-term quit rates?
Which of these health issues is currently experiencing widening racial disparities in the U.S., with rising death rates disproportionately affecting Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people?
A. Annual influenza (flu) cases. B. Drug overdose deaths. C. Childhood obesity rates. D. Cataract surgery success rates.
Answer: What is B. Drug overdose deaths?
Everyday, almost _______ children under 18 years of age try their first cigarette.
a) 3,000
b) 1,500
c) 2,500
d) 2,000
What is c) 2,500?
The amount of Hispanic/Latinx Americans that die every year due to a tobacco related disease.
a) 23,000
b) 33,000
c) 43,000
d) 53,000
What is C) 43,000?
Which widely accepted public health theory describes how the experience of chronic stigma, prejudice, and discrimination creates excess psychological stress that drives marginalized groups, such as LGBTQIA+ individuals, toward negative coping behaviors, including substance use?
A. The Social Determinants of Health Framework
B. The Allostatic Load Theory
C. The Health Belief Model
D. The Minority Stress Model
Answer: What is D. The Minority Stress Model?
While national survey data shows that African-American adults have overall comparable or slightly lower rates of lifetime Substance Use Disorder (SUD) prevalence than White adults, one key, and worsening, substance-related disparity is the faster increase in mortality rates from:
A. Alcohol-related traffic fatalities.
B. Marijuana-related hospitalizations.
C. Stimulant and opioid-involved overdose deaths.
D. Vaping-related lung injury (EVALI) cases.
Answer: What are C. Stimulant and opioid-involved overdose deaths?
Tobacco kills _____ of its users who don't quit.
a) all
b) up to 50%
c) up to 40%
d) up to 30%
What is b) up to 50%?
Which critical, long-term educational outcome is most significantly and negatively impacted for youth who were incarcerated during adolescence, showing a reduced likelihood of achievement compared to non-incarcerated peers with similar backgrounds?
A. Lower scores on standardized college entrance exams. B. Reduced enrollment in community college courses. C. Significantly reduced likelihood of high school graduation. D. Higher incidence of academic probation during the first year of college.
Correct Answer: C. Significantly reduced likelihood of high school graduation.
Disaggregated data (data broken down by country of origin) shows that which Latinx subgroup has historically reported the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking and recent illicit drug use?
A. Mexican Americans B. Cuban Americans C. Central Americans D. Puerto Rican Americans
Answer: What is D. Puerto Rican Americans?
The smoking prevalence percentage in LGBTQIA+ youth.
a) 10-15%
b) 40-60%
c) 20-30%
d) 70-80%
What is b) 40-60%?
The percent of African American youth that uses tobacco products as of 2023.
a) 27.9%
b) 23.1%
c) 20.1%
d) 26.9%
What is c) 20.1%?
Which statement best describes the change in adolescent cannabis use from approximately 2017 to 2019 in the U.S.?
A. Both traditional cannabis smoking and cannabis vaping rates decreased.
B. Traditional cannabis smoking increased, and cannabis vaping decreased.
C. Traditional cannabis smoking decreased, while frequent cannabis vaping accelerated.
D. Both traditional cannabis smoking and cannabis vaping significantly accelerated.
Answer: C. Traditional cannabis smoking decreased, while frequent cannabis vaping accelerated.
This specific type of adverse childhood experience (ACE) is highly prevalent among justice-involved youth, with one-third of youth in secure custody suffering from this related mental health disorder.
What is trauma (or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD)?
What percent of Hispanic middle and high school students vape?
A) 6.7%
B) 10.5%
C) 13.1%
D) 17.2%
What is D) 17.2%
Question (Definition): What does LGBTQIA+ stand for?
Answer: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic plus others who identify outside those labels.
Question: This respiratory disease, often exacerbated by environmental factors, results in a significantly higher death rate for African American children compared to white children.
Answer: What is asthma?
This substance is often cited as the most commonly used substance among adolescents.
What is alcohol?
Black youth are more than ___ times as likely to be detained or committed in juvenile facilities as their white peers.
(number from 1-10)
Answer: 5 times