Exam 1: Diversity and Identity

Canada's publicly funded health care system is designed to ensure that everyone has the same access to health care services and providers regardless of their ability to pay for care.Which of these concepts is the basis of the design of this health-care system?

You are a health-care planner working with a community affected by poverty.Your responsibility is to plan services and programs to ensure that members of the community have what they need to achieve and maintain health and well-being.Research evidence has told you that people who live in poverty are frequently less healthy than those with greater income.As a result,you develop additional services and programs,rather than just the standard ones,to offset the impact of substandard housing,limited access to fresh,nutritious foods,and exposure to unsafe environments.What concept does your approach use?

Diversity-competent practitioners are motivated to expand their knowledge of diverse populations and critically analyze attitudes that marginalize them.What does this step in the process of becoming a diversity-competent practitioner build?

Chapter 1's In Their Shoes relates the story of a 21-year-old post-secondary student who,while studying at university,discovers he has a brain tumor.In a matter of days his life changes,as does his identity.What is this change of identity called?

Acting on a policy of aggressive assimilation of Aboriginal People into non-Aboriginal,European-based Canadian society,the Canadian government forced Aboriginal children to leave their homes and live in state-funded residential schools.In those schools,Aboriginal children were forced to learn English and adopt Christianity and Canadian customs.Which stage of the continuum of diversity competence does this example represent?

If you live in Canada and are a white,heterosexual male who practises Christianity and speaks English,what are you considered to be,according to these aspects of your social identity?

A community health centre was established in a neighbourhood whose residents were predominantly immigrants and refugees from Latin America.None of the staff at the community health centre spoke Spanish or Portuguese,but they were sincere in their intent to establish health programs that would meet the needs of neighbourhood residents.In order to accomplish this,the staff set up formal mechanisms for meaningful consultation with community members.Which stage of the continuum of diversity competence does this example represent?

Which workplace diversity initiative is a good example of best practice?

Diversity-competent practitioners must begin with the concept of who they are and how diverse their own social and personal identities can be.What does this step in the process of becoming a diversity-competent practitioner build?

If you live in Canada and are a woman of colour who does not speak English and you live below the poverty line,what are you considered to be,according to these aspects of your social identity?