Burden of diseases

Question 1

inequality of non-comm

Answer 1

risk increase with age - developed countries = older population = more burden
burden improve with healthcare - disproportionally affect lic
richer countries can prevent infections etc better

Question 2

top deaths in UK

Answer 2

circulatory 
neoplasm 
resp
digestive
external causes 
mental/behavioural

Question 3

non-c demand on healthcare UK

Answer 3

major burden 
only increase as pop does 
because of modifyable risk factors 
obestity - >60% 
30% hypertension 
22%  cigarette smokers

Question 4

healthcare costs n-c uk

Answer 4

costs increase with tech
budget >100 billion
>8.5billion on prescriptions
most nc and most CVD

Question 5

burden of comm in uk

Answer 5

mortality declined in last century from 20% to 6.6%
20% suffer from intestinal infection
15 call GP - flu-like
35% GP - infection
40% people consult GP about inf
4% admissions and 5% bed days - attributable to inf diseases

Question 6

comm healthcare - ukm

Answer 6

£6billion annually 
mainly in primary care - £3.5billion 
£900 million 
infectious intestinal disease - food poisoning 20% pop
5.5ml people cold/flu - £170ml 
HIV - £400ml pa

Question 7

mortality com

Answer 7

1.2% deaths - infectious and parasitic diseases

3% children deaths

Question 8

inequality

Answer 8

GI infectioin 2.4x higher in poorest 5th than affluent quartile