Eliminating Disparities Self-Assessment

Instructions: Select your answer by clicking on the correct letter (a, b, c, d) and when you have completed the entire assessment, click the "Notify STEPP of Module Completion" button at the bottom of the page.

1. Disparities in tobacco control are often stated as rates in epidemiological terms such as prevalence, mortality, morbidity, exposure to secondhand smoke, access to prevention or cessation programs or target populations of tobacco industry marketing.
True
False

2. Diversity in a tobacco control coalition means that the group is truly representative of a community’s race.
True
False

3. Disparities in health status or health risk exposure are often the result of individual behavior patterns.
True
False

4. Assessing tobacco use, education and prevention activity in a sub-group of the community is referred to as:
Community assessment
Priority population assessment
Equalizing the outcomes
None of the above

5. Which statement/s describe cultural competence?
Total integration of the ideas and approaches that reflect the customs of priority populations.
You and/or your organization are sensitive to and responsive to the interests and needs of a group of people who have particular cultural traits.
Being open and non-judgmental about those customs, which are different from yours and knowing how to effectively work in diverse communities.
All of the above.

6. Knowing differences exist, while not assigning values describes:
Cultural awareness
Cultural competence
Cultural blindness
Cultural sensitivity