PSY 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: David Satcher, Native Hawaiians, National Institutes Of Health
5 Apr 2017
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Culture is the criteria we use to delineate social groups: skin color, ethnic background, language, customs and traditions, ses/social class/income. There are differences in mental and physical health based on culture. These differences are called health disparities: race and ethnicity, education, income, disability, geography, sexual orientation. Examples of health disparities: black people and ethnic hawaiians are more likely to get lung cancer than white people, black people and hispanic people are less likely to get melanoma than white people. Everyone has a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential and no one should be disadvantaged from achieving it. For equal need, everyone has equal access to available care, equal utilization of care, and equal quality of care. Health equality policy: david satcher (surgeon general in the clinton administration, 1960"s: significant interest more broadly. Civil rights movement: 1985: heckler report on black and minority health. 60,000 excess african american deaths per year: 1999: nih defines health disparities.
