Across
- 3. A method used by health professionals to have the patient reword their care and report it back to their provider.
- 7. Low levels of health literacy can be wrongly identified as (blank)
- 9. Awareness that physicians have to patient cues, expectations and nuances of interactions while recognizing misunderstandings due to cultural differences.
- 12. Of Americans read at an eighth grade level, while health care is given at a college reading level
- 13. A quick and accurate bilingual screening test for general health literacy, done by having the patient read an ice cream label and answer questions.
- 14. Patterns of human behavior that are part of a racial, ethnic, religious, or social group
Down
- 1. Knowledge about (blank) cultural issues draws attention to the importance of educating health professionals on an individual basis, rather than on group characteristics.
- 2. A health education item formatted like comic book to educate patients on components of their care.
- 4. When a minority group define their identity in ways that distinguish it from the majority group and begin to no longer put effort into this area.
- 5. The ability to read, understand, and act on medical information
- 6. The aptness to individualize communication to the needs and characteristics of a patient by a health care professional
- 8. Cultural (blank) is an acknowledgement and incorporation of the importance of culture by health care professionals
- 10. Communication (blank) is the ability of physician to produce culturally appropriate communication behavior
- 11. Stereotype (blank) occur when cues in the environment form negative associations with a group's status, triggering physiological and psychological processes detrimental to patients.