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MHA 708 EXAM D QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED Define disparity Lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank What defines health disparities? Healthy People 2020 8 determinants to the scope of a health care problem (8 gr...

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MHA 708 EXAM D QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH

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Define disparity

Lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank

What defines health disparities?

Healthy People 2020

8 determinants to the scope of a health care problem (8 groups of at risk people)

1. Racial inequities

2. ethnic inequities

3. gender

4. sexual orientation

5. age

6. access to medical coverage/insurance coverage

7. geographic location

8. health literacy

Recognition of ___ is crucial to the understanding of ___

health determinants

health disparities

most significant variable influencing populations is

insurance status

5 populations that are disproportionate with burden of disease

,1. Racial and ethnic minorities

2. disabled

3. women

4. economically and educationally disadvantaged

5. medically underserved

Health disparities are difference in the .... (x6)

- according to Unequal Treatment (IOM) 2002

1. Incidence

2. Prevalence

3. Mortality

4. Burden of disease

5. Other

6 things that cause health disparities

1. Insurance status

2. Socioeconomic status

3. Residential/geographic segregation

4. English is second language

5. Cultural and racial bias

6. Stereotyping

When was the Affordable Care Act published?

March 2010

What did the Affordable Care Act predict?

The greatest impact to reducing disparities is to reduce financial barriers to care

, What was the result of the publication of the Affordable Care Act?

Increased access to care and health insurance for ~32M americans

3 goals of the affordable care act?

1. Increasing insurance quality and affordability

2. Decreasing number of uninsured americans

3. Decreasing health care costs

T/F: The affordable care act was the largest overhaul in american health care

since medicare and medicaid in 1965

T

2 definitions of health literacy

1. The degree to which someone can understand basic health information

2. The capacity that an individual can ascertain services to mae appropriate health

decisions

T/F: There is no correlation between low health literacy and health disparities

among minorities

F

There is a high correlation

The PA profession was founded in part to do what?

Reach the unserved and underserved

Homelessness is a product of..

Large scale economic and social processes (depression, recession, and massive

changes in institutions)

Example of a massive change in institutions that caused homelessness

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