COMPARATIVE APPROACH 2ND EDITION
DAVIDSON EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS 2026 PREMIUM
⩥ Health Equity. Answer: The principle of fairness in health, ensuring
that everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
⩥ Social Justice. Answer: The concept of fair and just relations between
individuals and society, encompassing the distribution of wealth,
opportunities, and privileges.
⩥ Efficiency Principle. Answer: The idea that resources should be
allocated in a way that maximizes the benefits to health outcomes.
⩥ Social Determinants of Health. Answer: The conditions in which
people are born, grow, live, work, and age that affect health outcomes.
⩥ Social Ecological Perspective. Answer: A framework that considers
the complex interplay between individual, relationship, community, and
societal factors in health.
, ⩥ Life Course Perspective. Answer: An approach that examines how
early life experiences and exposures influence health outcomes across an
individual's lifespan.
⩥ Modifiable Risk Factors. Answer: Risk factors that can be changed or
controlled to reduce the likelihood of disease.
⩥ Non-Modifiable Risk Factors. Answer: Risk factors that cannot be
changed, such as age, gender, and genetic predisposition.
⩥ Risk Elevating. Answer: Factors that increase the likelihood of
developing a disease.
⩥ Risk Reducing/Protective Factors. Answer: Factors that decrease the
likelihood of developing a disease.
⩥ Chain of Risk. Answer: A sequence of risk factors that accumulate
over time, leading to health outcomes.
⩥ Accumulation of Risk. Answer: The buildup of multiple risk factors
over time that increases the likelihood of negative health outcomes.
⩥ Level of Influence. Answer: The various levels at which health is
produced, ranging from individual behaviors to global policy.