1.2 Determinants of Health Workshop Flashcards
1
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Equity vs Equality
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- All patients get the same treatment with the same support vs the same treatment is altered to make it more specific for each patient
2
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Health inequalities
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Avoidable health inequities between countries or community of people
3
Q
Health equity
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All individuals have the right to fair opportunity to attain full health potential
4
Q
Determinants of health categories
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- Biomedical risk factors
- Behavioural risk factors
- Social determinants
5
Q
Social determinants
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Conditions of socioeconomic nature that are influenced by a person’s birth, financial status, power and resources distribution etc.
6
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Levels of cause
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- Proximal - Individual factors such as behaviours
- Intermediate - Social and community factors
- Distal - Socioeconomic or cultural factors
