SPHU 1010 - Quiz 2
Four Core Principles - ANS-- multiple levels of influences can influence specific health
behaviors
- interaction of influences across levels such as soil-cultural factors or physical
environment
- involving multilevel interventions are more effective in changing behavior or sustain
population - wide effect
- most powerful when they are tailored to a specific behavior
SEM example - ANS-childhood obesity
Risk factors - ANS-characteristics that can put a person at risk for a disease or in
engaging in negative behaviors
protective factors - ANS-characteristics that can be protective for a disease or in
engaging in negative behaviors. they can act as buffers to risk factors
equity - ANS-equity is the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences
among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically,
demographically, geographically, or by other means of stratification
health equity - ANS-everyone has a fair and just opportunity to b healthier. this requires
removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences
including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs
social determinants of health - ANS-the conditions in the environments in which people
are born, live, learn, work, play, worships and age that affects a wide range of health,
functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks
underlying determinate of health - ANS-housing, environmental quality, transportation
neighborhood health, discrimination stress and trauma, food security, and access to
nutritious food
How do we conceptualize health problems and solutions? - ANS-we now understand
that health behaviors and outcomes are influenced by various levels and use ecological
models which are comprehensive health promotion models that are multifaceted,
concurred with environmental change, behavior, and policy
, Structural racism as SDH - ANS-we know there are some striking differences in health
outcomes by various race groups in the US
internalized racism - ANS-race based on beliefs and feeling within individuals
interpersonal racism - ANS-bigotry and biases shown between individuals through word
and action
institutional racism - ANS-discriminatory policies and practices within organizations and
institutions
systemic racism - ANS-ongoing racial inequalities maintained by society
socio economic status and health - ANS-SES begin to be used in the 1800s; Generally
include family income, educational level, professional status
possible explanations of what affects your overall health? - ANS-1. living conditions
2. psychosocial stress - low income, high grocies
3. early life exposure - access to good education
4. access to healthcare and other goods
5. environmental exposures
redlining - ANS-policy by federal housing administration, which was established in 1934,
that refused to insure portages in and near African American neighborhoods
education - ANS-linked to healthy behaviors; more educations mean higher income
immigration as SDH - ANS-the migration process and health outcomes: th health of a
migrant is shaped by the experiences and situations in the place of origin, during transit,
in the place of destination, and in some cases during the return to the place of origin
occupation - ANS-work as a social determinants of health
- work/occupation
anti-fat bias - ANS-prejudicial assumptions that are based on an assessment of a
person as being overweight or obese; also known as "fat shaming"
- Americans who aren't fat live in fear of becoming so
quality of care - ANS-fat patients receive lower quality of care and face Manu indignities
; fat patients are often under diagnosed sometimes because of medical equipment
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