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HEALTH DISPARITIES Part One: Definitions and Background

HEALTH DISPARITIES Part One: Definitions and Background

This lesson is part of a series designed to grasp the health disparities related to healthcare. Students will answer questions and interact with graphics to understand the objectives defined. Part I describes definitions and history of health disparities.

Learners will be able to:

  • Formulate an evidence-based definition of health disparities.
  • Discuss why health disparities matter for individual health, population health, and ethical reasons.
  • Describe measurement of health disparities.
  • Identify ways of categorizing health disparities.
Keywords:
Muslims, patients, behaviors, omissions, Nationality, Religion, beliefs, health, nurses, White, Ethnicity, cultural, African American, Sexual orientation, Office of Minority Healt, errors, Jr., cultural competence, diverse, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Asian, Gender, minority, healthcare, W.E.B. Dubois, competence, medications, systems, responsible, causes, meds, safety, responsibility, Race, Booker T. Washington, commissions, Education, Language, Hispanic, Socioeconomic status, Anne Fadiman, health care
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Material Type:
Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:
January 15, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:
February 12, 2019
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Submitter:
Eileen Horn
Primary Audience:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:
Website, Flash
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Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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No
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States

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