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NR503 FINAL EXAM 2024/ ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
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cultural awareness
✓ The self-examination and in-depth exploration of one's own beliefs and values as they influence
behavior
Disaster Epidemiology
✓ The use of epidemiology to assess the short- and long-term adverse health effects of disasters
and to predict consequences of future disasters.
World Health Organization (WHO)
✓ A group within the United Nations responsible for human health, including combating the
spread of infectious diseases and health issues related to natural disasters.
WHO priorities
✓ communicable disease, mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases, development,
health and aging, nutrition, food security and healthy eating, occupational health, substance
abuse,
Norms
✓ Agreed upon expectations and rules by which a culture guides the behavior of its members
within any given situation
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Values
✓ the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live
Universal declaration of human rights
✓ All people have the right to a standard of living that guarantees health
Community health needs assessment
✓ Assessing whether or not the region has the community resources that it needs.
situation analysis
✓ To analyze and identify the relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disability
within the demographic and other factors shaping thecircumstances of the population of a
specified community, country, or region.
Culture
✓ Practices, beliefs, values, norms (can be learned or shared) which guides the actions and
decisions of each person in the group.
Cultural Organizing Factors
✓ Communication, personal space, social organization, time perception, environmental control,
and biological variations
Macro-scale influences
✓ Broad understandings of illness, suffering and healing. Social roles and bureaucratic and
economic context of health care services
Micro-scale influences
✓ Face-to-face interaction at front-lines. Successful and failed communication efforts.
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Cultural Humility
✓ incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique, to redressing the power
imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to developing mutually beneficial and advocacy
partnerships with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations
Cultural Knowledge
✓ obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the various worldviews of different
cultures. Obtaining knowledge regarding biological variations, disease, and health conditions
and variations in drug metabolism.
socioeconomic status (SES)
✓ a measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation
Disparities in health
✓ refers to differences in health across ethnic and income groups as well as differences in gender,
age and size.
minorities
✓ a culturally, ethically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more
dominant group
Food Desserts Definition
✓ parts of the country void of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually
found in impoverished areas
social determinants of health
✓ The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of
money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
why are social determinants of health important?
✓ They impact a person's wellbeing and health
✓ -Because the goal is to improve the social determinants for all Americans
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✓ -Play a huge role in how a person is treated and prone to certain conditions
Social Justice
✓ justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
data sources for determinants of health
✓ Chronic Disease Indicators, Interactive Atlas of heart disease and stroke, National Center for
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB prevention
Genetic Risk Assessment
✓ technique that builds upon the discoveries in the area of DNA and genetic mapping, where
genetic predispositions toward certain behaviors can be anticipated and prevented; tool to help
identify individuals who have genetic risk factors
genetic screening
✓ process of testing DNA to determine the chance a person has, or might pass on, a genetic
disorder
Genomics
✓ Study of all the genes in the human genome together, including their interactions with each
other, the environment, and the influence of other psychosocial and cultural factors
Pharmacogenetics
✓ Area of pharmacology that examines the role of genetics in drug response.
Genetic Epidemiology
✓ the study of the role of genetic factors in determining health and disease in families and in
populations
components of genetic risk assessment
✓ intake, cancer risk assessment, genetic testing for an inherited cancer syndrome, informed
consent, disclosure of genetic test results, and psychosocial assessment
