54 - Global Health

Question 1

Ten determinants of global health

Answer 1

1) Social gradient
2) Stress
3) Early start
4) Social exclusion
5) Work
6) Unemployment
7) Social support
8) Addiction
9) Food
10) Transport

Question 2

Four stages of populations

Answer 2

1st is Low population, high birth and death rates
Transitions to stage four, with high population, low birth and death rates

Stage one has the fewest old people, stage four has more old people

Question 3

Four stages of health transition

Answer 3

1) Mostly infectious diseases and malnourishment (EG: sub-saharan Africa)
2) Receding pandemics, some live long enough to see chronic disease (EG: some Latin America, South Asia)
3) Degenerative, man-made diseases, deaths from chronic diseases overtake those from infection (EG: central Asia, urban India)
4) Delayed degenerative diseases (high-income countries)

Question 4

Significant determinant in life-expectancy

Answer 4

How equal incomes are in a country