___ defines health disparities as health inequalities that are unnecessary, avoidable, and
unfair/unjust - Answer World Health Organization
Societal mechanisms whereby people are positioned in a hierarchy based on their
wealth, status, power, prestige, gender, race/ethnicity, and other identifying
characteristics - Answer Social Stratification
The tendency of people to view their own subgroup as superior and to reject subgroups
with different physical, cultural, behavioral, and/or other characteristics. - Answer
D.Ethnocentrism
Linked nature of social categorizations such as as they apply to a given race, class,
gender, sexuality individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and
interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage - Answer Intersectionality
This perspective argues that all cultures are of equal value and need to be studied from
a neutral point of view - Answer A.Cultural Relativism
Cultural Competence refers to a set of behaviors attitudes and practices within a
system, organization, program or individuals that enables them to work effectively
among across cultures. - Answer A.Values
The American College Health Association Standards including promote college health
throughout campus as well as incorporate into health-related curriculum and
co-curricular activities. - Answer Social Justice
Attitudes, policies, and practices that are destructive to cultures and consequently to
the individuals within the culture. - Answer Cultural Destruction
, Lack of capacity to help minority clients or communities, remaining extremely biased -
Answer A.Cultural Incapacity
Holding the belief that the values of the dominant culture is called: apply to everyone -
Answer Cultural Blindness
Identification of one's weakness in serving minorities and effort to provide better
services for a particular population. - Answer Cultural Pre-Competence
Constant re-evaluation of one's own values, opinions, and prejudices, and continuous
development of one's knowledge - Answer A.Cultural Proficiency
A culturally versatile person. - Answer A.Learns from other cultures
Cultural Competency is often thought of as the main ingredient needed to address -
Answer A.Health disparities
Which of the following health organization's principal standard requires that health care
and services be respectful and responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and
practices? - Answer Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Minoity Health
The original stimulus for school health came as a result of the appalling epidemics of the
1800s and from the efforts of the - Answer A.Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Which of the following are established by concerned citizens to address health needs
that are not met by governmental agencies? - Voluntary health agencies
"A society in which all people live long, healthy lives" is the vision statement for -
Healthy People 2020
Which of the following official governmental health agencies are usually financed
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