QUESTION SET ONE
◉ Cross Cultural Health Care Program. Answer: Includes a plethora
of materials to improve cultural competency among providers
including training programs.
◉ National Partnership for Action (NPA). Answer: Mobilizes
individuals and groups to work and improve quality and elimination
of health disparities
◉ National Priorities Partnership. Answer: Key private and public
stakeholders who have agreed to work on major health priorities of
patients and families, palliative and end of life care, care
coordination, patient safety, and population of health
◉ Quality Alliance Steering Committee (QASC). Answer: Work to
improve healthcare quality and costs
◉ Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities. Answer:
Resources used by APNs to obtain data that demonstrate how
minority population compare with the US population as a whole.
,◉ Ethnicity. Answer: Aggregate of cultural practices, social
influences, religious pursuits, and racial characteristics shaping the
distinctive identity of community
◉ race. Answer: A biological designation whereby group members
share features (skin color, bone structure, genetic traits, blood
groupings).
◉ Nationality. Answer: Country of birth
◉ Genetic Evaluation. Answer: Medical history, testing, counseling,
next steps, family risk
◉ Pandemic. Answer: Global epidemic of disease that spreads to
more than one continent
◉ Outbreak. Answer: The occurrence of disease within persons in
excess of what would normally be expected in a clearly defined
community, location, and time of year.
◉ Quarantine. Answer: The separation and restrictions of the
movement of people who were or are exposed to a contagious
disease for a set period of time, to see whether they become ill.
, ◉ Isolation. Answer: The separation of sick people with a contagious
disease from those who are not ill.
◉ Epidemiological Triangle. Answer: Explains causation
◉ Caustive Agent. Answer: Those factors from which presence or
absence cause disease
◉ Susceptible host. Answer: Things such as she, gender, race,
immune status, genetics
◉ Environment. Answer: diverse elements such as water, food,
neighborhood, pollution
◉ Sustainable Development Goals. Answer: agreement between
countries to create an environment at the national and global levels
alike conductive to development and the elimination of poverty
◉ Climate change. Answer: due to human activity, trigger global
migration, and local relocation due to sea level rise.
◉ Population health. Answer: the health outcomes of a group of
individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the
group. I.e. seatbelt laws, no smoking areas, allergy free schools.