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4 Health Disparities and Health Equity Online Quiz Questions

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20 questions

True or false

1 point

True or false: Health equity requires everyone to have identical health outcomes.

A
True
B
False

Fill in the blank

1 point

A difference in health outcomes or access to health resources between population groups is a .

Written response

1 point

What term refers to the conditions in which people are born, grow, learn, work, live, and age, together with the wider forces that shape those conditions?

Choose one

1 point

A health system finds that one population group consistently has worse access to timely care, and the gap is unfair and could be remedied. Which concept best describes this gap?

A
A difference in outcomes between groups, whether fair or unfair
B
A systematic, avoidable or remediable, and unfair disparity
C
A fair opportunity for everyone to attain full health potential
D
A difference caused solely by individual choices

True or false

1 point

True or false: A health disparity means that a person's social identity is itself a biological cause of poor health.

A
True
B
False

Fill in the blank

1 point

Food security and housing stability are examples of the domain of social determinants of health.

Choose all

1 point

Select all five domains used to organize social determinants of health.

A
Economic stability
B
Education access and quality
C
Health care access and quality
D
Neighborhood and built environment
E
Social and community context
F
Individual health outcomes
G
Personal medical history
H
Biological inheritance

Written response

1 point

Which neighborhood and built-environment condition can make it harder to reach work, school, grocery stores, and medical appointments?

Choose one

1 point

Which example is a structural determinant that can shape health opportunities across communities?

A
A patient's decision about whether to attend a routine appointment
B
A policy that distributes resources and opportunities unevenly across communities
C
A difference in life expectancy between two groups
D
The availability of a particular treatment at a clinic

Choose all

1 point

Select all actions that are consistent with advancing health equity.

A
Make preventive and primary care accessible, affordable, and responsive to language and culture
B
Work across sectors to improve housing, education, employment, food access, and transportation
C
Review policies for unequal effects and remove systematic barriers
D
Include affected residents in defining problems and designing interventions
E
Measure outcomes and influential conditions, then use findings to improve programs
F
Focus only on individual behavior and avoid changing institutional practices
G
Provide care while leaving other barriers unexamined

Choose one

1 point

A community is planning a response to local health barriers. Which approach best reflects meaningful community partnership?

A
Ask residents to review a completed intervention, but do not involve them in earlier decisions
B
Set priorities based only on decisions made by health professionals
C
Include affected residents in defining problems, setting priorities, designing interventions, and evaluating results
D
Use one standard intervention everywhere without consulting local communities

Open ended

1 point

A neighborhood has high rates of preventable illness and few nearby clinics. Besides opening a clinic, describe how an equity-focused response could identify and address additional barriers, involve residents, and assess whether the response is working.

Choose one

1 point

A health report gives one average outcome for a broad population group. What is an important limitation to keep in mind?

A
The average gives a complete picture of every person's health experience in the group
B
The group should be treated as having uniform risks and resources
C
Important differences within the group may be hidden by the average
D
The group average proves that social conditions have no influence

True or false

1 point

True or false: If a population group has worse health outcomes, its social identity should be treated as the biological cause of those outcomes instead of examining unequal exposures and access to resources.

A
True
B
False

Choose one

1 point

A health program finds a systematic, persistent, and unfair gap in preventive-care access between population groups. The gap is caused by a barrier that can be removed. Which interpretation best fits this finding?

A
Any difference between groups in health outcomes is automatically a health inequity.
B
A systematic, unfair difference in access caused by a removable barrier is a health inequity.
C
A difference is a health inequity only if every member of one group experiences it.
D
A health inequity means that all groups have identical health outcomes.

Written response

1 point

What term describes the conditions in which people are born, grow, learn, work, live, and age, together with the wider forces that shape those conditions?

Choose one

1 point

A community has unreliable public transportation. Which explanation best describes how this condition could affect residents' health?

A
Transportation affects health only when a person is traveling to a medical appointment.
B
Transportation is an individual preference and does not affect access to other resources.
C
Unreliable transportation can restrict access to work, education, food, and health care, shaping health opportunities.
D
Transportation affects health only through exposure to traffic-related air pollution.

Choose one

1 point

Which example most directly addresses a structural determinant of health?

A
A policy and institutional review that changes how resources and opportunities are distributed
B
A person's daily decision about which foods to buy
C
A temporary change in one patient's symptoms
D
An individual's preference for a particular clinic location

Choose one

1 point

A health system wants to make preventive and primary care more equitable. Which approach best fits that goal?

A
Require every patient to use the same clinic, regardless of distance or accessibility.
B
Focus only on adding more appointments without considering cost or language access.
C
Prioritize patients who already have the fewest barriers to care.
D
Make preventive and primary care accessible, affordable, culturally and linguistically responsive, and high quality.

Written response

1 point

To reveal which population groups or places are not benefiting from a health program, what should evaluators do to the program's results?