1. Global Determinants of Health

Question 1

Define demography

Answer 1

Study of size and shape of populations

Question 2

Define epidemiology

Answer 2

Study of disease in populations

Question 3

Define statistics

Answer 3

Study of data in numerical form

Question 4

Identify the 3 domains of public health & what underpins them

Answer 4

• health improvement
• healthcare public health
• health protection

underpinned by epidemiology, health economics, sociology, psychology

Question 5

Epidemiology

Answer 5

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems

Question 6

What is one of the biggest issues in health ?

Answer 6

Global warming and climate change

Question 7

What is a main cause of global warming (think pop sci)

Answer 7

Carbon emissions, caused by too many people(population size, demographic transistion)
or by too many polluters (economic transition, global income distribution, emissions by country)

Question 8

Name implications for health caused by global warming

Answer 8

Air pollution, extreme health, severe weather , environmental degradiaiton, water and food supply impacts, water quality impacts

Question 9

What are 3 key areas that effect population health

Answer 9

• demography shape (age sex proportions)
• economic composition (wealth distribution)
• behaviour and lifestyle factors (diet and exercise)

Question 10

What 3 things do the burden of disease, disability and ageing depend on

Answer 10

• population size
• population shape
• age sex specific rates

Question 11

What are the 3 main global determinants of health

Answer 11

Global warming
Socio-demographic factors (demographic transition, ecominic transition and behaviour/lifestyle)
Population factors (population size and shape and age-sex specific rates)

Question 12

Explain the 4 stages of demographic transitions

Answer 12

Stage 1: high birth rate, high fluctuating death rate
Stage 2: declining death rate and continuing high birth rates
Stage 3: declining birth rates and death rates
Stage 4: low death rates and low fluctuating birth rates

Question 13

Name and explain the shapes of ageing population pyramids

Answer 13

Curvy triangle- rapidly expanding mainly rural
Triangle- expanding
Dome- stationary
Bulging dome with smaller bottom than top- contracting mainly rural