Health Equity and Disparities Flashcards
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A health educator wants to ensure a diabetes program is appropriate for a Southeast Asian refugee community. The BEST first step is:
Answer: Conduct a community needs and assets assessment with community members
Community needs and assets assessment with community members ensures the program is grounded in the specific cultural, linguistic, and contextual realities of that community.
Which of the following represents a PRIMARY prevention strategy targeting health equity at the policy level?
Answer: Legislation requiring paid sick leave for all workers
Paid sick leave policy addresses a social determinant of health (economic stability) before illness occurs, representing upstream primary prevention.
Which data source would BEST help a health educator identify census-tract level health disparities?
Answer: CDC PLACES (formerly 500 Cities)
CDC PLACES provides model-based estimates of health measures at census tract, county, and city levels, enabling local health disparity analysis.
Intersectionality as a framework in health disparities recognizes that:
Answer: Multiple social identities interact to create unique health experiences
Intersectionality, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, recognizes that race, gender, class, and other identities overlap to create compounded, unique experiences of oppression and health disadvantage.
A health educator discovers that a community program has great reach among English-speakers but misses monolingual Spanish-speakers. This gap is BEST described as:
Answer: A disparity in program access by language
Differential program access by language represents a health disparity where a group is systematically excluded from program benefits.
Which of the following BEST exemplifies community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles?
Answer: Community members are co-investigators who share decision-making throughout the research
CBPR requires genuine partnership where community members share power and decision-making in all phases of research, not just as subjects or recipients.
The leading cause of the Black-White infant mortality gap in the United States is:
Answer: Differential rates of low birthweight, largely driven by racial stress
Low birthweight, strongly associated with chronic stress from racial discrimination and structural racism, is the primary driver of the persistent Black-White infant mortality disparity.