Exam 8: Culture and Health

Higher death rates among African Americans due to AIDS, cancer, and heart disease can be attributed to

Allostatic load refers to the

The Department of Health and Human Services (2011) defines ___________ as "differences in health outcomes that are closely linked with social, economic, and environmental disadvantage . . . often driven by the social conditions in which individuals live, learn, work, and play."

Exposure to chronic stress causes physiological consequences such as high blood pressure, increased heart rate, and elevated blood sugar and cortisol levels. This is known as:

One of the examples below is NOT an example of cultural competence.

Language brokers can bridge the divide for patients needing services by providing much needed language support. Language brokers are:

European American physicians have been known to misdiagnose Black patients' symptoms of heart attacks at _______________ than identical symptoms of European American patients.

The Affordable Care Act attempts to address health disparities in two ways: Increasing diversification of the workforce and supporting the development of cultural competence in all healthcare providers. Which of the following is true:

Which of the following statements in FALSE regarding major health disparities?

According to the health belief model, an individual's health behavior is affected by their

Priscilla, an immigrant from the Philippines, noticed that the doctor did not take time to answer her father's questions, but did with a European American male patient. This story illustrates the influence of __________ on mental health professionals.

An important problem that will occur if health care disparities persist is

The health belief model says that how people behave or seek to maintain or improve their health is influenced by

What has been the impact of the discovery of information regarding things like the Tuskegee Experiment, sterilization experiments, and the use of slaves as involuntary medical research subjects?

An individual's perception of health threat is influenced by all of the following factors except

Paradies and colleagues (2015) studied racism and health and found:

There are notable differences in health care coverage across ethnic groups. Which ethnic group had the highest rates of uninsured people, in a 2013 Kaiser Family Foundation report?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a structural barrier to health care?

In the 2017 AHRQ report, National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, a general conclusion was that

Patients of color generally trust health professionals _____________ European American patients.