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Articulate the difference between health disparities, health equality, health equity and structural racism
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health disparities: preventable differences that are experienced.
health equity: highest level of health for all people through addressing avoidable inequalities and historical injustices.
structural racism: routinely advantage white people and produce adverse outcomes for POC
health equity: highest level of health for all people through addressing avoidable inequalities and historical injustices.
structural racism: routinely advantage white people and produce adverse outcomes for POC
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health disparities definition
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preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by a population
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health equity
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attainment of highest level of health for all people. It involves the focus and ongoing efforts to address avoidable inequalities and historical and contemporary injustices
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structural racism
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normalization of an array of historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal dynamics that routinely advantage white people across mutually reinforcing systems while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color and indigenous communities
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Understand how gaslighting can be understood at a population-based level and impacts health outcomes and health disparities
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gaslighting: underlining another person's reality.
asking what is wrong with you versus what are other factors that impacted your life/social determinants of health.
ex. blaming the mother for infant mortality
asking what is wrong with you versus what are other factors that impacted your life/social determinants of health.
ex. blaming the mother for infant mortality
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Articulate the connection between historical inequities and current health inequities, including concepts discussed regarding real estate
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in the past redlining didn't give out home loans to minorities, and now even when redlining was removed, POC can't move because they are too poor so schools are segregated.
live in a better zip code, and you'll be fine
live in a better zip code, and you'll be fine