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PH 3100 Midterm Exam Review Questions AndAccurate Answers
Public Health what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions for people
to be healthy (context, populations, health promotion vs disease cure)
What are the 4 determinants of health? ANSWER Biological, Behavioral, Environmental,
Social
Health Disparity What is a Health Disparity? - ANSWER Differences in key determinants
of health and health outcomes that adversely affect marginalized or excluded groups;
differences in health outcomes that "ought not be"
Levels of Socio-ecological model: - ANSWER Public Policy > Community >
Organizational > Interpersonal > Individual
Health Inequity - ANSWER Differences in health status or in the distribution of health
determinants between different population groups
Health inequities are result of: - ANSWER Our false belief in a hierarchy of human value
What type of construct is racism? - ANSWER Social Construct
Three levels of racism: - ANSWER Institutionalized, Personally Mediated, Internalized
Examples of government-regulated segregation: - ANSWER Redlining, Differential
lending, Residential security maps, "The Pointe System", Black bottom replaced by the
Chrysler freeway
, 4 components of Health Equity: - ANSWER Human rights, social justice, culture of
health, community solutions
What is Health Equity? - ANSWER Providing every person with the same opportunity to
stay healthy and/or effectively cope with disease or health related emergencies -
regardless of their race, gender, age, economic conditions, social status, environment,
and other socially determined factors
What are Human Rights? - ANSWER Rights to which all people are inherently entitled.
The UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 which includes the
right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being
US focus on human rights vs. Global focus - ANSWER US: civil and political rights ||
Global: economic, social, cultural rights recognized as most important
3 Human Rights Principles: - ANSWER Interrelated, Interdependent, Indivisible
What is Social Justice? - ANSWER All groups and individuals are entitled to important
rights, such as health protection and minimal standards of income.
___________is the philosophy on which public health was based. - ANSWER Social
Justice
Right to Health (WHO) - ANSWER Everyone has the right to enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health.
What is health? - ANSWER State of COMPLETE mental, physical, emotional, and social
well-being - not merely the absence of disease or illness
Culture of Health: - ANSWER One in which good health and well-being flourish across
demographic, geographic, and social sectors
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