HTH 423 Ott Walter Exam 2 Questions With Complete
Solutions
misinformation
- falsehood, statement that is factually incorrect
- accidental
disinformation
- a news story, photo, video, etc, deliberately created to be false
or misleading
- deliberate
inherency
- idea that we all have certain traits, characteristics, innate sort
of temperaments that we are born with and are believed to be
part of certain groups in society
- if you are a part of a certain group then that is how you behave
in the world (not proven concepts, just ideas)
inferiorization
- people in the world that believe that other groups are inferior to
their group and they treat them as such
- treatment of certain groups as inferior
racial antipathy
- outright bigotry, racism, hostility, hatred towards someone of a
particular group or multiple groups
individual racism
,- person to person treatment based on race, acts of intolerance or
discrimination
structural racism
- unequal treatment that arises from how
organizations/institutions socially think about policies that have
been put into place
- unequal treatment that arises when organizations/institutions
create policies that are more covert in their discrimination
against
- ex: residential segregation is illegal, but people find loopholes
around it
racial prejudice
- antipathy towards a racial group
- based on faulty views of a particular group
racial discrimination
- unfavorable treatment of people because of the group they
identify with (typically race)
- race has no physical scientific basis (it's a social construct)
scientific racism
- the attempt to prove there are separate races, race explains
basic differences among people, some races are "superior" to
others
- discredited because of bias and faulty assumptions
infant mortality
, - number of infants who die before their first birthday per 1,000
live births
- in 2013, infant mortality rate among African Americans (11.1
per 1,000 live births) was double the rate among whites (5.06
per 1,000 live births)
- American Indians/Alaska Natives and Puerto Ricans also
experienced higher infant mortality rates (of 7.61 and 5.93 per
1,000 live births respective), than whites
life expectancy
- measure of the overall health of a population, typically
expressed as the average number of years a newborn would be
expected to live
- in 2014, the life expectancy for white males was 76.5 years,
African American males was 72 years, Latino males was 79.2
years
- in 2014, life expectancy was 78.1 years for African American
females, 81.1 years for white females, and 84 years for Latina
females
age-adjusted death rates
- sum of deaths in a population from all causes except old age
- The age-adjusted death rate per 100,000 (for the years 2012-
2014) was 729.1 for whites and 858.1 for African Americans
- The death rate due to heart disease was 165.9 deaths per
100,000 for whites and 206.3 deaths for African Americans
- For cancer the death rate was 161.9 for whites but 185.6 for
African Americans; for diabetes, 19.3 for whites, 37.3 for
African Americans
Solutions
misinformation
- falsehood, statement that is factually incorrect
- accidental
disinformation
- a news story, photo, video, etc, deliberately created to be false
or misleading
- deliberate
inherency
- idea that we all have certain traits, characteristics, innate sort
of temperaments that we are born with and are believed to be
part of certain groups in society
- if you are a part of a certain group then that is how you behave
in the world (not proven concepts, just ideas)
inferiorization
- people in the world that believe that other groups are inferior to
their group and they treat them as such
- treatment of certain groups as inferior
racial antipathy
- outright bigotry, racism, hostility, hatred towards someone of a
particular group or multiple groups
individual racism
,- person to person treatment based on race, acts of intolerance or
discrimination
structural racism
- unequal treatment that arises from how
organizations/institutions socially think about policies that have
been put into place
- unequal treatment that arises when organizations/institutions
create policies that are more covert in their discrimination
against
- ex: residential segregation is illegal, but people find loopholes
around it
racial prejudice
- antipathy towards a racial group
- based on faulty views of a particular group
racial discrimination
- unfavorable treatment of people because of the group they
identify with (typically race)
- race has no physical scientific basis (it's a social construct)
scientific racism
- the attempt to prove there are separate races, race explains
basic differences among people, some races are "superior" to
others
- discredited because of bias and faulty assumptions
infant mortality
, - number of infants who die before their first birthday per 1,000
live births
- in 2013, infant mortality rate among African Americans (11.1
per 1,000 live births) was double the rate among whites (5.06
per 1,000 live births)
- American Indians/Alaska Natives and Puerto Ricans also
experienced higher infant mortality rates (of 7.61 and 5.93 per
1,000 live births respective), than whites
life expectancy
- measure of the overall health of a population, typically
expressed as the average number of years a newborn would be
expected to live
- in 2014, the life expectancy for white males was 76.5 years,
African American males was 72 years, Latino males was 79.2
years
- in 2014, life expectancy was 78.1 years for African American
females, 81.1 years for white females, and 84 years for Latina
females
age-adjusted death rates
- sum of deaths in a population from all causes except old age
- The age-adjusted death rate per 100,000 (for the years 2012-
2014) was 729.1 for whites and 858.1 for African Americans
- The death rate due to heart disease was 165.9 deaths per
100,000 for whites and 206.3 deaths for African Americans
- For cancer the death rate was 161.9 for whites but 185.6 for
African Americans; for diabetes, 19.3 for whites, 37.3 for
African Americans
