Health Disparities and Health Equity (Cultural, Social and Ethnic Diversity.)

What are the factors that can cause a preventable gap in the quality of health and life expectancy.

- Gender - Race - Income - Education

What are some strategies to improve culturally-competent care?

- Provide relevant training on cross-cultural issues to healthcare workers. - Provide healthcare brochures in the languages spoken by surrounding demographics. - Encouraging healthy eating involving foods that are preferred by that ethnic or cultural group.

What abilities are affected due to the lack of health literacy?

A lack of health literacy can affect a patients ability to: - Navigate the healthcare system. - Complete forms. - Locate healthcare services. - Share information with their healthcare provider.

What does cultural competency refer to?

Cultural competency refers to a set of behavior, attitudes and policies of healthcare professionals that enable them to better work with patients from diverse backgrounds and ethnic groups.

What does equality mean?

Equality means that everyone receives the same treatment or medication.

What does equity mean?

Equity means that access to a doctor, medication and care is offered in a fair and just manner to everyone.

Health disparities is the term most used in the (United States/World Wide).

Health disparities is the term most used in the United States.

What is health equity about?

Health equity is about access to healthcare for all people.

Health inequities is the term most used in the (united States/World Wide).

Health inequities is the term most used in the World Wide.

What is health literacy?

Health literacy is the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process and understand health information and services in order to make appropriate health decisions.

What is linguistic competency?

Linguistic competency is the ability of the healthcare system to effectively deliver language-appropriate healthcare to patients in the United States who speak limited or no English.

What are people with limited health literacy less likely and more likely to do?

People with limited health literacy are less like to do basic things like protect their health. They are more likely to have chronic health conditions that are poorly controlled, do not have regular physical exams to catch health problems at a early stage, are re-admitted to the hospital multiple times for already treated condition.

How does the CDC define health disparities?

The CDC defines health disparities as "Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations."

What is the main focus of linguistic competency?

The main focus of linguistic competency is to remove language barriers to limited English-speaking populations in order to decrease health dissipates and inequities.