Health Disparities Quiz #1

Difference in health between two groups/populations

Preventable differences in:
Burden of disease, injury, violence
Opportunities to achieve optimal health & well-being

A measure of the extent of disease in a population;
the number of people with a disease right now

New cases; measure of the probability of occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time

The inability to meet basic human needs

Poverty in terms of its relation to the standards that exist elsewhere in society

Worse health of those who are at a lower level of socioeconomic position even those who are already in relatively high socioeconomic groups

Relation between socioeconomic position and access to tangible material conditions

Ascribes the existence of health inequalities to the direct or indirect effects of stress stemming from either being lower on the socioeconomic hierarchy, or living under conditions of relative socioeconomic disadvantage

Wear and tear on the organism caused by exposure to daily adverse life circumstances

Health depends not just on one's own level of income, but also on the incomes of others in society

Summary measure of income distribution
0= completely equal distribution

Resources available to individuals and to society through social relationships

Health effects of variables that tell us something about the places or contexts, and not simply the people who inhabit them

Aggregated group properties that exert an influence on health over and above individual characteristics

Broader political, cultural, or institutional context;
Ex: the presence or absence of features that are intrinsic to places

How health status at any given age, for a given birth cohort, reflects not only contemporary conditions but embodiment of prior living circumstances, in utero onwards

Early life environment affects adult health independent of intervening experience

Early life environment sets individuals onto life trajectories that in turn affect health status over time

Intensity and duration of exposure to unfavorable environments adversely affects health status