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___defines health disparities as health inequalities that are unnecessary, avoidable, and
unfair/unjust - correct answer ✔✔World Health Organization
Societal mechanisms whereby people are positioned in a hierarchy based on their wealth,
status, power, prestige, gender, race/ethnicity, and other identifying characteristics - correct
answer ✔✔Social Stratification
The tendency of people to view their own subgroup as superior and to reject subgroups with
different physical, cultural, behavioral, and/or other characteristics. - correct answer
✔✔D.Ethnocentrism
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as as they apply to a given race, class,
gender, sexuality individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent
systems of discrimination or disadvantage - correct answer ✔✔Intersectionality
This perspective argues that all cultures are of equal value and need to be studied from a
neutral point of view - correct answer ✔✔A.Cultural Relativism
Cultural Competence is a set of behaviors, attitudes and practices within a system, organization,
program, or individuals that enables them to work effectively among across cultures - correct
answer ✔✔A.Values
The American College Health Association Standards including promoting college health
throughout the campus and including into health-related curriculum and co-curricular activities.
- correct answer ✔✔Social Justice
, Attitudes, policies, and practices that are destructive to cultures and consequently to the
individuals within the culture. - correct answer ✔✔Cultural Destruction
Lack of capacity to help minority clients or communities, remaining extremely biased - correct
answer ✔✔A.Cultural Incapacity
Holding the belief that the values of the dominant culture is called: apply to everyone - correct
answer ✔✔Cultural Blindness
Recognition of weakness in serving minorities and attempt to improve services to a specific
population. - correct answer ✔✔Cultural Pre-Competence
Continuing self-assessment of one's values, beliefs and biases and ongoing expansion of
knowledge - correct answer ✔✔A.Cultural Proficiency
A culturally versatile person.... - correct answer ✔✔A.Learns from other cultures
Cultural Competency is often thought of as the main ingredient needed to address - correct
answer ✔✔A.Health disparities
Which health organization's principal standard demands that health care and services be
respectful and responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices? - correct answer
✔✔Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Minoity Health
The initial impetus for school health stemmed from the terrible epidemics of the 1800s and the
efforts of the - correct answer ✔✔A.Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Which of the following are created by concerned citizens to deal with health needs not met by
governmental agencies? - correct answer ✔✔voluntary health agencies