Hispanic Community Health
The largest subgroup of Hispanics in the United States is:
Mexicans
The Latin American belief is that good and evil spirits can affect life, health, and luck.
What is Espiritismo?
The federal agency responsible by treaty to provide services to the American Indian and Alaskan Native populations
What is the Indian Health Service?
This number represents the approximate number of Africans brought to the United States as slaves
What are 500,000?
Considerations for health promotion among the African American community should include all of these. List at least two.
What is considered using churches to disseminate information?
Be aware of underlying mistrust of the medical system
Use formal titles until invited to do otherwise
The worldview of the Hispanics can be characterized as:
present-oriented
The term Hispanic refers to an ethnic group that shares a culture derived from the Spanish. Hispanic is not a race but an
What is an ethnic distinction?
The federal government recognizes this many languages spoken by about 500,000 American Indians and Alaskan Natives
What are 169 languages?
Characteristics of the African American do not include this toward medical personnel.
What is trust in the health care system?
Home remedies are common among the African American community and can include all of these.
What are yams, St. John’s wart, turpentine?
In the Hispanic community, an illness that results from a frightful experience is known as:
susto
This term refers to everyone from Latin America and therefore includes, for example, people from Brazil who speak Portuguese.
What is the term Latino?
American Indians and Alaskan Natives believe in these. List at least two
What are close family and community life?
What are Elders caring for younger persons
What are Creator and spiritualism
This is the leading cause of death among African American women.
What is heart disease?
The infant mortality rate in this community is greater than all other racial/ethnic groups
What are African Americans?
List at least two appropriate health promotion practices for the Hispanic community
Use family-based interventions when possible
Inquire about complementary and alternative medicine treatments used.
Use appropriate titles to show respect
American Indians arrived in North America a number of years ago.
What is 30,000 years ago?
Used by American Indians for healing and balancing, this is considered a good way to clean one’s body of illness or disease.
What are sweat lodges?
Factors contributing to poor health outcomes among African Americans. List at least two.
What is drug and alcohol use
Smoking
Poor nutritional habits
Limited physical activity
This socioeconomic disparity is twice as high for African Americans than non-Hispanic whites.
What is unemployment or poverty?
The fact that most recent Hispanic immigrants have better health than more affluent people residing in the U.S. for a longer time is referred to as: Your Answer is the "Daily Double"
Hispanic paradox
This is the number of federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States.
Your Answer is the Daily Double!!!!!!
What are 566 Indian Tribes?
Used by American Indians to help groups of people return to harmony, these are not used for individual healing.
What are healing ceremonies?
African American infant mortality is this times as high as non-Hispanic white.
What are Two times as high?
Make your wager: Factors contributing to poor health outcomes among African Americans include at least one of these.
What are discrimination, cultural literacy barriers, lack of access to health care?