HEALTH 255 FINAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Multicultural Health Ans✓✓✓The provision of health services in a
sensitive, knowledgeable and nonjudgmental manner with respect for
people's health beliefs and practices when they are different from your
own.
Cultural Competence Ans✓✓✓The ability to interact effectively with
people of different cultures; a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes,
structures, and policies that come together to work effectively in
intercultural situations.
Culture Ans✓✓✓The set of learned behaviors, attitudes, values, and
ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population.
Dominant Culture Ans✓✓✓The total, generally organized way of life,
including values, norms, institutions, and symbols that reflect the largest
culture.
Race Ans✓✓✓The concept of dividing people into populations or
groups on the basis of visible traits and beliefs about common ancestry.
Racism Ans✓✓✓The belief that some races are superior to others by
nature.
,Discrimination Ans✓✓✓The practice of treating people differently on a
basis other than merit.
Ethnicity Ans✓✓✓Large groups of people who are classified according
to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin
or background.
Discrimination Ans✓✓✓The practice of treating people differently on a
basis other than merit.
Acculturation Ans✓✓✓The process of adaptation to another culture by
acquiring elements of the majority group's culture.
Minority Ans✓✓✓A group that is smaller in number than another
group; a part of a population that differs in characteristics, often
resulting in differential treatment.
Assimilation Ans✓✓✓The process of becoming absorbed into another
culture, adopting its characteristics, and developing a new cultural
identity.
Heritage Consistency Ans✓✓✓The degree to which people identify with
their culture of origin.
,Health Disparity Ans✓✓✓Also referred to as health inequalities. Gaps
in the quality of health and health care across racial, ethnic, sexual
orientation, and socioeconomic groups.
Healthy People 2020 Ans✓✓✓A program that provides a prevention
framework for the United States. It is a statement of national health
objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to
health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Hill-Burton Act Ans✓✓✓AKA Hospital Survey and Construction Act
of 1946. It provided federal assistance to state governments for the
construction and modernization of hospitals and other health care
facilities. The original statute required recipient hospitals to make
services available "to all persons residing in the territorial area of the
application, without discrimination on account of race, creed, or color".
Ethics Ans✓✓✓Externally defined principles that govern the standards
of behavior for individuals within a group regarding what is good or bad.
Morality Ans✓✓✓A subset of philosophy that addresses concepts of
right and wrong, proper conduct, good and evil that are usually
implemented by individual interpretations of these concepts and are
often based in philosophical and religious teachings.
Autonomy Ans✓✓✓The ethical principle that embodies the right of
self-determination.
, Respect Ans✓✓✓A sense of admiration, honor, value that invokes a
belief that a person or object should be treated seriously and with
courtesy.
Veracity Ans✓✓✓An ethical principle that involves being truthful.
Fidelity Ans✓✓✓Ethical principle that entails keeping one's promises or
commitments.
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓The state or quality of being kind and charitable;
a principle that requires doing good or removing harm.
Nonmaleficence Ans✓✓✓The principle that one should practice
completely.
Justice Ans✓✓✓The ethical principle stating that people should be
treated equally and fairly.
Paternalistic Belief System Ans✓✓✓
Naturalistic Theories of Disease Ans✓✓✓The belief that illness is
caused by a person's imbalance with the natural environment.
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
Multicultural Health Ans✓✓✓The provision of health services in a
sensitive, knowledgeable and nonjudgmental manner with respect for
people's health beliefs and practices when they are different from your
own.
Cultural Competence Ans✓✓✓The ability to interact effectively with
people of different cultures; a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes,
structures, and policies that come together to work effectively in
intercultural situations.
Culture Ans✓✓✓The set of learned behaviors, attitudes, values, and
ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population.
Dominant Culture Ans✓✓✓The total, generally organized way of life,
including values, norms, institutions, and symbols that reflect the largest
culture.
Race Ans✓✓✓The concept of dividing people into populations or
groups on the basis of visible traits and beliefs about common ancestry.
Racism Ans✓✓✓The belief that some races are superior to others by
nature.
,Discrimination Ans✓✓✓The practice of treating people differently on a
basis other than merit.
Ethnicity Ans✓✓✓Large groups of people who are classified according
to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin
or background.
Discrimination Ans✓✓✓The practice of treating people differently on a
basis other than merit.
Acculturation Ans✓✓✓The process of adaptation to another culture by
acquiring elements of the majority group's culture.
Minority Ans✓✓✓A group that is smaller in number than another
group; a part of a population that differs in characteristics, often
resulting in differential treatment.
Assimilation Ans✓✓✓The process of becoming absorbed into another
culture, adopting its characteristics, and developing a new cultural
identity.
Heritage Consistency Ans✓✓✓The degree to which people identify with
their culture of origin.
,Health Disparity Ans✓✓✓Also referred to as health inequalities. Gaps
in the quality of health and health care across racial, ethnic, sexual
orientation, and socioeconomic groups.
Healthy People 2020 Ans✓✓✓A program that provides a prevention
framework for the United States. It is a statement of national health
objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to
health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Hill-Burton Act Ans✓✓✓AKA Hospital Survey and Construction Act
of 1946. It provided federal assistance to state governments for the
construction and modernization of hospitals and other health care
facilities. The original statute required recipient hospitals to make
services available "to all persons residing in the territorial area of the
application, without discrimination on account of race, creed, or color".
Ethics Ans✓✓✓Externally defined principles that govern the standards
of behavior for individuals within a group regarding what is good or bad.
Morality Ans✓✓✓A subset of philosophy that addresses concepts of
right and wrong, proper conduct, good and evil that are usually
implemented by individual interpretations of these concepts and are
often based in philosophical and religious teachings.
Autonomy Ans✓✓✓The ethical principle that embodies the right of
self-determination.
, Respect Ans✓✓✓A sense of admiration, honor, value that invokes a
belief that a person or object should be treated seriously and with
courtesy.
Veracity Ans✓✓✓An ethical principle that involves being truthful.
Fidelity Ans✓✓✓Ethical principle that entails keeping one's promises or
commitments.
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓The state or quality of being kind and charitable;
a principle that requires doing good or removing harm.
Nonmaleficence Ans✓✓✓The principle that one should practice
completely.
Justice Ans✓✓✓The ethical principle stating that people should be
treated equally and fairly.
Paternalistic Belief System Ans✓✓✓
Naturalistic Theories of Disease Ans✓✓✓The belief that illness is
caused by a person's imbalance with the natural environment.
