new questions

Here are some more questions you came up with for the pre/post test

Julie F's Questions:

Which of the following is true?
1) African-American nonhispanics at or below the poverty level are four times as likely to report fair or poor health than white non-hispanics at two times or greater the poverty level
2) Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 64 are twice as likely as white non-hispanics to have no usual source of health care
3) In 2003, the rate of new HIV infection among African-American non-hispanics was more than ten times the new infection rate for white non-hispanics.
4) All of the above are true.
Answer: 4

Which of the following is not true?
1) Accidents are the leading cause of death for all racial/ethnic groups ages 25-44.
2) While heart disease is the leading cause of death for all other racial/ethnic groups, cancer is the leading cause of death for Asian/Pacific Islanders.
3) Homicide is the third leading cause of death for hispanic and African-American non-hispanics between the ages of 25-44.
answer: 1.

Carrie's Questions/notes from Social Health Determinants by Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot:

Which of the following is a concomitant of good health in childhood?
1) educational receptivity
2) good parenting
3) good maternal health and education
4) all of the above
Answer: 4

Cultural Competence: a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those.
- A developmental process
Cultural destructiveness -> cultural incapacity -> cultural blindness
cultural pre-competence -> cultural competency -> cultural proficiency