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Why have health disparities become a national public policyissue?
Becauseracial and ethnic minorities have become larger percentages of our totalpopulation
Which of the following practices assures equity andaccountability when making health policy decisions in a community?
Collecting accurate demographic, health, and health-relateddata about the individuals in the community
Cultural competence alone cannot address health disparitybecause:
There are otherissues, such as low socioeconomic status and educational level, that contributeto health disparities and cannot be addressed by cultural competence
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:
Cultural competence
The most promising resolution to the problem of healthdisparities includes:
Expansionof coverage plans for all ethnic, racial low-income groups
Which of the following have not been demonstrated as gender-linkedhealth disparities?
Unintentional andintentional injuries
The best example of culturally appropriate communityengagement and empowerment refers to which of the following?
Implementing healthprojects that result in the reciprocal transfer of knowledge and skills amongall collaborators and partners
The practice of linguistic competency refers to all but thefollowing:
Useof family members as medical interpreters
The single best predictor of poor health is:
Poverty
culturallyappropriate approach
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.
Cultural and Linguistically Appropriate Service Standards (CLAS)
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
Cultural blindness

express philosophy of being unbiased

Linguistic competence

capacity of an organization and its personnel to communicate effectively