Health 5000 || Questions and Answers.
vulnerability correct answers Predisposing, enabling reinforcing
Individual and ecological
Policy and intervention focus need to target multiple risks
Racial Ethnic Minorities correct answers Over 34% of the US population belongs to a minority
group
12% Black
15% Hispanic
4% Asian
1% American Indian
The Uninsured correct answers Tend to be:
Less educated
Working in PT jobs or employed by small firms
Medically uninsured are employed but not covered because:
Employer does not offer health insurance
Employee works too few hours
Children - the future of health correct answers Disparities between races
Development vulnerability - physical and emotional childhood changes that can be impacted by
poor health and/or social circumstances
Affected by "new morbidities"
YRBS
Women correct answers Leading providers of care in the nursing profession
, Live 8 years longer than men, but suffer greater morbidity and poorer health outcomes
Heart disease and stroke
HIV/AIDS
Depression
Alzheimer's
DHHS Office of Women Health correct answers Government agency specifically designed to
address disease and disability of women. and Coordinate and implements a comprehensive
women's health agenda.
SAMHSA Targets for Women (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration) correct
answers Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Targets: Physical and
sexual abuse of women, women as caregivers, women with mental and addictive disorders,
women with HIV/AIDS , STDs and TB, Older Women, Women Convicts
Rural Health correct answers Poor access due to: Poverty, long distances, topography, weather,
availability of health care and transportation. Measures to improve rural health care. 1. the
national health service Corps, medically undeserved areas, community and Migrant Health
Centers, The Rural Health Clinics Act, Rural Managed Care
The National Health Service Corps correct answers Created in 1970, to recruit and retain
physicians in shortage areas, a scholarship and loan repayment program, targeted doctors,
dentists, nurse practitioners, midwives, and mental health professionals who serve a minimum of
2 years in undeserved areas. Since 1972 over 27,000 have been placed in medically undeserved
communities.
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) correct answers The Health Professions Educational
Assistance Act of 1976 provided for HPSAs. Three different types of HPSAs: Geographic areas,
population groups, medical facilities.
Medically Undeserved Areas (MUA) 1 correct answers Developed to support the: Federal health
maintenance organization grant program. Community health center and rural health clinic
vulnerability correct answers Predisposing, enabling reinforcing
Individual and ecological
Policy and intervention focus need to target multiple risks
Racial Ethnic Minorities correct answers Over 34% of the US population belongs to a minority
group
12% Black
15% Hispanic
4% Asian
1% American Indian
The Uninsured correct answers Tend to be:
Less educated
Working in PT jobs or employed by small firms
Medically uninsured are employed but not covered because:
Employer does not offer health insurance
Employee works too few hours
Children - the future of health correct answers Disparities between races
Development vulnerability - physical and emotional childhood changes that can be impacted by
poor health and/or social circumstances
Affected by "new morbidities"
YRBS
Women correct answers Leading providers of care in the nursing profession
, Live 8 years longer than men, but suffer greater morbidity and poorer health outcomes
Heart disease and stroke
HIV/AIDS
Depression
Alzheimer's
DHHS Office of Women Health correct answers Government agency specifically designed to
address disease and disability of women. and Coordinate and implements a comprehensive
women's health agenda.
SAMHSA Targets for Women (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration) correct
answers Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Targets: Physical and
sexual abuse of women, women as caregivers, women with mental and addictive disorders,
women with HIV/AIDS , STDs and TB, Older Women, Women Convicts
Rural Health correct answers Poor access due to: Poverty, long distances, topography, weather,
availability of health care and transportation. Measures to improve rural health care. 1. the
national health service Corps, medically undeserved areas, community and Migrant Health
Centers, The Rural Health Clinics Act, Rural Managed Care
The National Health Service Corps correct answers Created in 1970, to recruit and retain
physicians in shortage areas, a scholarship and loan repayment program, targeted doctors,
dentists, nurse practitioners, midwives, and mental health professionals who serve a minimum of
2 years in undeserved areas. Since 1972 over 27,000 have been placed in medically undeserved
communities.
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) correct answers The Health Professions Educational
Assistance Act of 1976 provided for HPSAs. Three different types of HPSAs: Geographic areas,
population groups, medical facilities.
Medically Undeserved Areas (MUA) 1 correct answers Developed to support the: Federal health
maintenance organization grant program. Community health center and rural health clinic
