Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. Despite significant progress in research, practice, and policy, disparities in youth health risk behaviors persist. The word is often used to describe a social or economic condition that's considered unfairly unequal: a racial disparity in hiring, a health disparity between the rich and the poor, an income disparity between men and women.
Passive communicators do all of the following except: C. Stand up for themselves when needed. This is true because the definition of passive is "accepting without interferance."
