Health Equity Foundations
National plan that sets measurable goals to improve population health and eliminate disparities by 2030.
What is Healthy People 2030?
Law that first prohibited disability discrimination in federally funded programs.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
Term for women living longer but experiencing more illness.
What is the female health paradox?
Type of racism visible in individual encounters (e.g., a nurse assuming a patient can’t speak English).
What is interpersonal racism?
Framework linking early adversity to lifelong health and behavioral outcomes.
What is the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) framework?
A national public health initiative that aims to eliminate disparities and achieve health equity by 2030.
What is Healthy People 2030?
Concept coined by Reynolds (2018) describing recognition that disabled people are experts in their own lives.
What is disability humility?
Serena Williams’ postpartum story illustrates this form of inequity.
What is dismissal of Black women’s symptoms or structural racism in medicine?
A city placing industrial sites only in low-income Black and Latino areas illustrates this.
What is structural racism?
Brief challenges with adequate support represent this type of stress.
What is positive stress?
Model that focuses on removing social and environmental barriers rather than “fixing” the individual.
What is the social model of disability?
Belief that “most wheelchair users wish they could walk again” illustrates this.
What is an ableist quality-of-life myth?
Drug-use policies that punish pregnant women often cause this unintended outcome.
What is avoidance of healthcare services?
Framework that examines how multiple identities interact to produce inequities.
What is intersectionality?
Type of care that recognizes trauma’s impact and emphasizes safety and trust.
What is trauma-informed care?
Framework that examines overlapping identities such as race, gender, and class in shaping inequities.
What is intersectionality?
Camp Jened participants in Crip Camp learned this key lesson about identity.
What is that disability is a shared identity and civil-rights movement?
Policy that improves population health by reducing postpartum stress and supporting bonding.
What is paid parental leave?
Statement “Race is a social construct, but racism creates chronic stress that affects health” corrects which misconception?
What is that race is biological?
According to ACEs research, toxic stress affects health through these long-term biologic changes.
What are changes in brain and stress physiology?
According to public health principles, this approach targets root causes rather than individual behaviors.
What is upstream intervention or upstream thinking?
The ADA and Rehabilitation Act reframed disability from a medical problem to this.
What is a civil-rights issue requiring equal access?
Landmark decision that ended federal constitutional protection for abortion access in 2022.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
A nurse advocating for zoning laws to allow grocery stores in underserved areas acts at this SEM level.
What is the policy or societal level?
A child who experiences frequent violence at home but also has one caring, consistent adult in their life is less likely to develop toxic stress because of this factor.
What is a stable, supportive relationship?