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vulnerable pop

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sus to actual or potentials stressors that may lead to an adverse effect
- limitations in phys resources, enviro, human capital PLUS BPS resources
- unfavorable health outcomes compared to others

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Human capital

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personal resources
- all strength, knowledge, and skills that enable a person to live a prod, happy life

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If you have less education, you have less…

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Human capital

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BLANK helps ppl to resist factors of vulnerability

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Resilience

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Vulnerability cycle

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predisposing fx that lead to poor health outcomes can exac other predisposting fx
- create additive and cyclical effects
- adds to stress load

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marginalization

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ppl or pops are relegated to a position on the periphery of society where they have less influence, power, importance
- cause and outcome of vul
- assoc with inc change of dev health prob and worse health outcomes

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Examples of vulnerable pops

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Poverty, homeless, queer, minoritized racial, ethnic, and cultural, rural, disabled

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What is a primary driver of vulnerability?

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Poverty

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SES

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social standing measured as combo of education, income, and occupation
- often leads to inequities to resources and issues r/t privilege, power, and control

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How is poverty measured?

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  • income
  • # people living in a household
  • cost of living
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Crisis poverty

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  • situational
  • short term
  • ex: college students
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Persistent poverty

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  • chronic
  • long term
  • ex: gen pov
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Neighborhood pov

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area where lack businesses and resources

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Who is more at risk for poverty?

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Kentuckians, lack education, single moms, elderly, poor job skills training, disabled

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Impact of poverty on health

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  • inadequate nutrition
  • high rates of chronic illness
  • more complications
  • higher mortality (incl infants)
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“blameless poverty” pops

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  • determines stigma and deservance of assistance
  • old, widowed women, kids, laborers injured on the job
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impoverished pops that are not blameless

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Lazy, young adults, drug addicts, homeless

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Homelessness

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Lack a fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence

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episodic homelessness

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often in and out, often younger and mentally ill/substance abusers

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transitional homelessness

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often from catastrophes and temporary
- eventually get to permanent housing

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Chronic homelessness

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  • older often, unemployed, and sub abuse/AMI
  • smallest percent overall
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Factors that affect homelessness

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Poverty, shortage of sub abuse facilities, domestic/interpersonal violence, unemployment, economy
- insufficient housing assistance

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Who is vulnerable to homelessness?

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unemployed, migrants, sub use and mentally ill, vets, victims of violence, no safety net, queer

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Impact of homelessness on health

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can’t rest, can’t get food, stress, exposure, infection, disease, chronic/acute ill, infestations, mental health

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Nursing interventions for housing
- crisis/emergency shelters - federal housing asst - "housing first" - permanent supportive housing
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Housing first policy
provide long-term housing then link it to mental health treatment
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Permanent supportive housing
long term housing assistance with supportive services for ppl with long histories of homelessness and persistent obstacles
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Primary interventions for homelessness
Prevent homeless
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Secondary interventions for homelessness
for people on the verge or newly homeless - case management and edu - policies
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Tertiary interventions for homelessness
Permanent supportive housing, understanding BPS functioning that lead to that
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Intersex
combo of chromosomes, gonads, hormones, int sex organs, genitals that differ from expected patterns of male and female
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sex
biological male or female, intersex
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gender identity
Innermost concept of male, female, both, neither
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health disparity in queer pops
- internalized homophobia; queer pops prefer hetero physicians - lack knowledge, legal discrim, more suicide, bully, homeless - more tobacco, alc, sub use
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Organ inventory
method of inventorying body parts to allow for document of alterations or artificial
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Important NC for queer pops
- Ask all pt about sex orientation, gender ID, pronouns - constant evolution of inclusive lang - focus on pts lived experiences
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Queer considerations in HC setting
- being in spaces segregated by binary sex - anxiety about coming out; fear iso or mistx - lack safe/respectful restrooms and hospital assignment - staff not recognize or respect IDs - insuff records systems
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Race and ethnicity
Socially constructed external systems used to classify people
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Federally recognized races
Black, AfAm, Am indian, white, Native Hawaiian or Pacific islander
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Federally recognized ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino OR not
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Hispanic/Latino
Spanish origin regardless of race
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Cultural characteristics that differ
- belief of age, death, dying - time - communication (non-verbal too) - personal space - trauma, gender influence
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Health disparities for race and ethnicity
- inc surg mortality with marg groups - unconscious bias of Black pt being less cooperative with medical procedures - biased technology and algorithms (ex: pulse ox)
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Black pts are less likely to...
- get kidney transplant - get good cardiac care - receive stage appropriate cancer care
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Focus of interventions for race and ethnicity
SDH, policy/sys, bias, tailored health promo
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What can the nurse do to support patients with race/ethnic disparities?
Advocate - acknowledge HC sys historically untrustworthy
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Rural
subjective term; defined by geographic location, population density, distance/time to get to urban centers - each rural location has unique features
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Impact of rural on health
- perceived poorer perception of health status, less likely to engage in health bx - less likely to seek health services - inc rate chronic illness (CVD, COPD, HTN, DM, cancer)
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Disability
umbrella term covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restriction (ind)
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Impairement
problem in body fxn or structure - activity limitation or participation restriction (micro)
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Handicap
disadv resulting from an impairment or disability that prevents fulfillment of an expected role (macro level)
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Medical model of disability
defect in need of cure thru medical intervention
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rehab model of disability
defect tx by rehab professional
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moral model of disability
connection with sin and shame
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Disability model of disability
Socially constructed
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Whether the inability to perform a certain fxn is seen as disabling depends on...
socio-environmental barriers - attitudinal, architectural, sensory, cog, econ, inadequate support services, other fx
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What is the biggest minority group in the US?
Disabled population
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Experience of disability depends on...
- temporary - permanent - prog decline of chronic illness
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Health disparities for disabled populations
inc chronic illness, inc risk for med, phys, social, emo, spiritual probs, inc anx/dep
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T/F People with disabilities are more likely to be victimized
True - often by people who know them well (HC worker, fam, intimate partner)

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