HID questions
According to world health organization environment is defined by
All the physical,chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related behaviors
According to the medical models definition of health.
An individual is healthy if she is free of symptoms and physical sings
Which of the following statements is true with regards to cancer and cardiovascular diseases
Both diseases share a common socioeconomic and psychosocial factos
Are products of personal history, and socual, geographic, economic and political factors
Culture and ethnicity
Why reducing health disparities have been difficult taks in spite of numerous efforts through the years
Determinants for health disparities have not been studied simultaneously
Disparities
Differences in health status between advantaged and disadvantage population that are considered unfair and avoidable
What is the name of the scientific field that examines inheritable traits not caused by changes in the dna code
Epigenetic
The most comprehensive definition of health is the one offered by the medical model
False the medical model is not the most comprehensive
Poverty is considered as the principal indicator of health disparities
False, even when income is taken into account health disparities still exist among races
The sociocultural definition of health takes into account the individual perception of health
False, its not focus on a individual level
Differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population group
Health inequality
One of the following is not a component of the internal dimesin of diversity
Income
Eliminating disparities in the health status of the population has become an international priority because populations with disparities have
Increased incidence of disease
Inequalities are based on unfair and avoidable factos that create health gaps and average indicator of the population health
Inequality is the characteristic of being unequal or uneven
Is considered the major cause of health disparities
Lack of access to health services
What compound attach to genes to direct their expression as certaintype of cells
Methyl groups
Definition of Health by WHO IS
Multidimensional concept
One of the following elements does structure the individual dimension of diversity
Personality,internal dimension,external dimension,organizational dimension, cultural competence
Cross cultural misunderstanding between providers and patients acan lead to mistrusst and frustration and lead
Reduce patient adherence
Bidby defines cutural competence as
The ability of helath professionals and institutions to deliver effective services to diverse patients populations
Social determinants of health
The collective set of conditions in which people are born, grow up, live and work
This model still stands as the most effective illustration of health determinants and continues to inform the work of those concerned with understanding and reducing the health inequality gap. It explains how the health inequities are a result of different levels of interaction considering form the individual to the community and socio economical level
The social model of health
Which of the following will contibute to a more comprehensive understanding of health disparities
Transdiciplinary and multilevel-research approaches
Social determinants of health do not act in isolation
True act in complex interactions that affect health