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13 Cards in this Set
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Why have health disparities become a national public policyissue?
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Becauseracial and ethnic minorities have become larger percentages of our totalpopulation
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Which of the following practices assures equity andaccountability when making health policy decisions in a community?
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Collecting accurate demographic, health, and health-relateddata about the individuals in the community
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Cultural competence alone cannot address health disparitybecause:
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There are otherissues, such as low socioeconomic status and educational level, that contributeto health disparities and cannot be addressed by cultural competence
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As a public health specialist, you have developed the abilityto work effectively within the cultural context of a community that shares adiverse cultural background. This is termed:
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Cultural competence
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The most promising resolution to the problem of healthdisparities includes:
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Expansionof coverage plans for all ethnic, racial low-income groups
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Which of the following have not been demonstrated as gender-linkedhealth disparities?
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Unintentional andintentional injuries
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The best example of culturally appropriate communityengagement and empowerment refers to which of the following?
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Implementing healthprojects that result in the reciprocal transfer of knowledge and skills amongall collaborators and partners
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The practice of linguistic competency refers to all but thefollowing:
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Useof family members as medical interpreters
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The single best predictor of poor health is:
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Poverty
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culturallyappropriate approach
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focuses on the true meaning of engagement; that is, members ofthe community taking the lead to address what the community needs to becomeempowered, and public health workers assisting them in a bi-competent manner.
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Cultural and Linguistically Appropriate Service Standards (CLAS)
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proposed as a means to correct inequities that currently exist in the provision of health services and to make these services more responsive tot the individual needs of all patients/consumers
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Cultural blindness
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express philosophy of being unbiased |
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Linguistic competence |
capacity of an organization and its personnel to communicate effectively |