While taking the health history, a Black Hispanic patient tells ...

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While taking the health history, a Black Hispanic patient tells the nurse about having difficulty finding employment. The nurse realizes which factor causes income disparity within this segment of the population?
 
  1. Shift to labor requiring higher technological skills
  2. Increase in the real minimum wage potential
  3. Increase in traditional labor skills for these groups
  4. Shift of skilled jobs to unskilled labor

Question 2

What does the nurse identify as reasons why income influences health? Select all that apply:
 
  1. Increases access to health care
  2. Enables people to live in better neighborhoods
  3. Enables people to afford better housing
  4. Enables people to live in areas without environmental hazards
  5. Reduces despair

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Answer to Question 1

1
Explanation: 1. The shift to labor requiring higher technological skills has decreased unskilled labor jobs, resulting in income inequality for those groups traditionally involved in unskilled labor.
2. Real minimum wage potential has decreased, not increased.
3. Traditional labor skills have been declining for these groups.
4. There has been no shift of skilled labor to unskilled labor.

Answer to Question 2

1, 2, 3, 4
Explanation: 1. Income may be related to health, because it affects access to health care.
2. Income may be related to health, because it can enable people to live in better neighborhoods.
3. Income may be related to health, because it can enable people to afford better housing.
4. Income may be related to health, because it can enable people to reside in locations that are not near environmentally degraded locations.
5. There is no evidence to suggest that income reduces despair.