Cultural competence correct answers A dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an
individual, system or healthcare agency find meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based
in knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of those to whom they
tender care
Norms and values correct answers Specific practices that guide their actions and decisions of
each person in a group based on their culture. Can be either learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model correct answers A set of questions the advanced practice nurse can
use in order to assess the culture of a patient
Socio economic status correct answers A measure that takes into account three interrelated
dimensions: a persons income level, education level, and type of occupation. Some measures of
socioeconomic status use only one dimension such as income.
Disparities correct answers A higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced
by one group in relation to another
Minorities correct answers A group of people who because of their physical or cultural
characteristics are singled out from the others in society; black, Hispanic, Native American,
Asian Pacific.
Food desert correct answers Neighborhoods and communities that have limited access to
affordable and nutritious food
Social determinants of health correct answers Things like poverty, education level, racism,
income and poor housing that affect access to healthcare
Social justice theory correct answers The goal that all people will have equal opportunity to
healthcare access and quality of healthcare will be the same
Accommodation correct answers To create an environment that accommodates health practice
and ritual from other cultures within a plan of care
Acculturation correct answers Degree To which an individual from one culture has given up the
traits of that culture and adopted the traits of the dominant culture in which they now reside
Assimilation correct answers This social, economic, and political integration of a cultural group
into main stream society to which it may have emigrated
Genetic risk assessment correct answers When a patient is determined to get to have a gene that
faces them at a higher risk of having a disease such as cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease
, Genomics correct answers The study of all genes in the human genome as well as their
interaction with other genes, the individuals environment, and the influence of cultural and
psychosocial factors.
Pharmacogenomics correct answers Medication efficacy, toxicity, and drug interaction based on
genetic variations
Genetic epidemiology correct answers The link between epidemiology and genetic
Genetics Non-Discrimination Act correct answers Was passed to offer some protection against
the potential misuse of genetic information
Epidemic correct answers Outbreak at a population level
Disaster epidemiology correct answers The use of epidemiology to assess the short and long term
adverse health effects of disasters and to predict consequences of future disasters. It brings
together various topic areas of epidemiology including a cute and communicable disease,
environmental health, occupational health, chronic disease, injury, mental health, and behavioral
health
WHO correct answers (World Health Organization) specialized agency of the United Nations
that is concerned with international public health. The world health organization recognized that
international collaboration could control infectious disease better than any single country.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) correct answers Goals resulting from a UN-led effort to
end extreme poverty by focusing on 17 key indicators, the top five of which are no poverty, zero
hunger, good health, quality education, and gender equality, with key benchmarks for 2030.
Universal declaration of human rights correct answers All people have the right to a standard of
living that guarantees health
Call to Action correct answers Call for nurses and midwives to assume a leadership role in
addressing planetary health because nurses and midwives are the most numerous and most
patient centered component of the health workforce. This leader ship begins with educating
ourselves, students, staff, patient, and communities about planetary health by engaging in
political and policy processes
Community health needs assessment correct answers Assessing whether or not the region has the
community resources that it needs.
situation analysis correct answers To analyze and identify the relationships among patterns of
morbidity, mortality, and disability within the demographic and other factors shaping
thecircumstances of the population of a specified community, country, or region.
Culture correct answers Practices, beliefs, values, norms (can be learned or shared) which guides
the actions and decisions of each person in the group.