Exam 16: Culture, Diversity, and Health Disparities: Are Current Theories Relevant

The general ecological model is very much applicable to understanding health disparities because there are many and varied causal factors forming an interrelated web or ecology.

Even when they are in poor health, Caucasian American men are less likely than African American and Latino men to see a doctor.

Which type of interventions are the most well documented, focusing on policy regulation, access to care, changing social norms, and community mobilization?

Which of the following identified cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, chemical dependency, diabetes, homicide and accidents, and infant mortality as six specific health issues that were major causes of disparities between minorities and the majority Caucasian American population?

Not all health disparities involve racial/ethnic minority populations or cultural diversity.

Mistrust of doctors, scientists, and the government has been documented for hospital patients of which ethnic group, stemming from public knowledge about he infamous Tuskegee syphilis study?

The second major goal of Healthy People 2010 was to eliminate which of the following, and this continues as one of the four major goals of Healthy People 2020?

In order to create better access to health care or remove an environmental risk that is affecting a minority community (and is, therefore, an important cause of health disparities), which approach would be useful?

According to the Heckler Report, there was about a 30-year lag in health status improvement for African Americans compared to Caucasian Americans.

Alcohol dependence is significantly higher for which ethnic population than it is for any other group?