HP 365gmw Midterm: HP365 notes

• School: USC
• Department: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies
• Course: HP 365gmw
• Professor: soto and smiley

Document Summary

Health disparity: health disparity, generally refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one population group relative to another group. Determinants of health: biology and genetics, individual behavior, social environment, physical environment, health services. Indian/alaska native (3 in 10) and lowest among asian americans (1 in. However, du bois deemed as differences in social advancements : health of aa varied by neighborhood, death rates higher among aa compared to whites. Social structure: enduring patterns of social life that shape an individual"s attitudes/beliefs, behaviors and actions, and material/psychologic resources. Racism and health: multilevel construct - institutional discrimination, individual discrimination, Breast cancer: white women have highest rates of getting breast cancer, but black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than any other group, black and white women have about the same rates of mammography use.