Week 1 Key Terms
This is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close understanding of the community served. This trusting relationship enables the worker to serve as a liaison or link between the community they work in and health and/or social services to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery.
What is a Community Health Worker?
These are negative experiences that happen between the ages of 1 and 17 years. These experiences are usually traumatic events, including: Abuse, Neglect, & Household Dysfunction
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
This is a structured approach to modifying habits, actions, or routines to achieve specific goals or improve one’s life.
What is a Behavior Change Plan?
This SDOH category is defined as the extent to which people have equitable, affordable, and available access to the healthcare services they need.
What is Health Care Access and Quality?
This is the guidance provided to patients, helping them navigate through the intricacies of the healthcare system to ensure they receive timely, appropriate, and coordinated care.
What is Health and Social Service Navigation?
This refers to a set of consistent behaviors, attitudes, and policies within an organization or among professionals that support effective work in cross-cultural situations.
What is Cultural Competence?
This is a process that helps the patient move through the stages of change. The approach attempts to increase the client's awareness of the potential problems, consequences and risks associated with their behavior; and is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This SDOH category is about having the financial ability to access the things we need like food, housing, and healthcare. It also includes factors like poverty and employment as well.
What is Economic Stability?
This is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.
What is Mental Health?
This is the process of committing to a lifelong journey of self-reflection and recognizing our own biases in order to encourage ongoing learning and curiosity rather than arriving at an expert, "competent" endpoint of a cultural group.
What is Cultural Humility?
This is the provision of assistance or comfort to others, typically to help them cope with biological, psychological, and social stressors.
What is Social Support?
This SDOH category affects our health based on high school graduation rates, vocational training enrollment, language and literacy skills, and early childhood development.
What is Educational Access and Quality?
This is a medical condition that affects a person's thinking, emotions, or behavior. It can also cause distress and make it difficult to function in social, work, or family settings and prevent them from completing daily activities.
What is Mental Illness?
This is the hierarchy of human motives, or needs, as described by:
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This is the degree to which the person’s behavior corresponds with the agreed recommendations from a health care provider.
What is Medication Adherence?
This SDOH category involves the place where a person lives, transportation barriers, housing stability, physical safety, and physical access to food...all of which can directly impact one's ability to connect to healthcare.
What are Neighborhood and Physical environment?
These are conditions in which we are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. These conditions can affect our health, how well we can function, and our overall quality of life.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
BONUS: This is the concept by which the effects of a disease are prevented or minimized through integrated care. This is done in order to improve the quality of life for those with chronic conditions and reduce healthcare costs.
What is Disease Management?
BONUS: This is the act of directing someone to a different place or person for information, help, or action, often to a person or group with more knowledge
What is a Referral?
This SDOH Category involves how individuals relate to their friends, family, coworkers, and community, which can greatly affect one's health and well-being.
What are Community and Social Context?