HTH 231 Final Exam questions with
complete solutions
Culture - correct answer ✔✔"A totality of socially transmitted behavioral
patterns, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, arts, and all other products of human work and thought
characteristics of a population of people that guide their worldview and decision making"
Subculture - correct answer ✔✔"A group of people from several cultures who join together for an array
of reasons"
Cultural Awareness - correct answer ✔✔Appreciation of external and internal signs of diversity
• Arts, music, dress, physical characteristics
Cultural Sensitivity - correct answer ✔✔Personal attitudes and not saying things that might be offensive
to someone from a culture or ethnic background
Purnell Model of Cultural Competence - correct answer ✔✔• All HCP need similar info about cultural
diversity • All HCP share the metaparadigm concepts of
global society, family, person, and health.
• One culture is not better than another, just different
• Differences exists within, between and among • Change slowly over time.
Disparity - correct answer ✔✔"A particular type of health difference that
is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage"
-environmental, physiological, social, maldistribution of human or fiscal resources, lack of access to care
Barriers to Health Care - correct answer ✔✔Obstacles or hindrances that make it difficult to access or
obtain good health or health care
-accessibility, language, adaptability etc
, Barriers and specific populations - correct answer ✔✔Chinese- family
American Indian- looking people in the eye etc
Purnell Model of Cultural Competence - correct answer ✔✔
WHO 3 recommendations on social determinants of health - correct answer ✔✔1. Improve daily living
conditions
2. tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources
3. measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action
global determinants of health - correct answer ✔✔housing, education, transporstion, social protection,
energy
Global Determinant of Health: Housing - correct answer ✔✔Adequate shelter from elements
-privacy, safety and security
-appropriate size, composition
-affordable, sound construction,
Global Determinant of Health: Education - correct answer ✔✔-universal availability
-equity in access
-improving quality
-equity in outcomes
-ciritcal periods and life long leanring
Global Determinant of Health: Transportation - correct answer ✔✔economic development, safety,
acessability, envioronmental sustainability, livable community and livelihoods
Global Determinant of Health: Social Protection - correct answer ✔✔Health, social servives and
insurance schemes
-income only transfers ( incash or In kind((Storage))
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