About this event
World Health and Disparities is a solo written test for the Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate divisions. Forty percent of the questions cover health disparities and diversity; the rest is split evenly between what health is, disparities in treatment and medical decisions, and ways to reduce disparities. Unlike most HOSA tests, much of the content comes from websites frozen as of September 1: Our World in Data, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the WHO health equity fact sheets and Q and A, and selected KFF health policy topics, alongside the textbook Health Disparities in the US (Barr). The event is one round of 50 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes with an essay tiebreaker.
Test day
What to expect
60 minutes, 50 questions
You have 60 minutes for 50 questions written from the event's published test plan. Official format: 50-question test, 60 minutes, plus an essay tiebreaker.
Written from the test plan
Questions follow the event's published test plan, section by section, and are written from the listed reference texts. Practice questions here are drawn in the same proportions.
How you advance
How many advance from regionals to states and on to the International Leadership Conference (ILC) depends on your association's rules. Study the official test plan: it lists each section and its share of the test.
What's on the test
Study resources
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