CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE Flashcards
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Factors shaping Health Agins
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- social connectedness
- physical activity
- healthy eating
- not smokin g
- prevention of falls
2
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Future Priorities
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- smoking, high cholesterol food, exercise Health habits on the rise: - diabetes - cancer -obesity
3
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Social Marketing
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- technology
- commercial drive- mcdonalds want you to eat their food, health care providers want you away from that
- social views
4
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Prevention
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- Early identification is important
- Easier to deal with problem if you don’t have the problem yet
- Window of vulnerability - young kids.
- Targeted media campaigns
5
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Elderly
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- Canadas elderly population is growing
- Hard for them to change behaviours now
- Want to increase their life expectancy and the QoL
6
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Happiness vs Hedonic Adaptation
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HA: Winning the lottery, eventually you will come back to that baseline happiness
- New becomes the norm. Well if you got that car you want then thats the new norm
50% genes, 40% life choices and behaviours
7
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Gender Differences
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- Men tend to die sooner
- Genetic specific disorders- breast cancer
- more women require long term care facilities
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Canadian Health Services
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NEEDS:
- To improve access
- To improve quality of care
- Inequality gap (SES, aboriginals)
- Not amazing but not horrible
- Telehealth Technology- writing scripts from afar
- Shortage of doctors and nurses
9
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Improving Quality of Care
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- Better management of health records- electronic records
Real world evidence- this now feeds into data house of stats
10
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Chronic Illness and the future
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- Expensive
- large economic burden
- will impact more canadains
- increasing trend in elderly
- increasing social media use - lower exercise rates
- diet/environment
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Future Factors for Consideration
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- technology
- treatment effectiveness
- cost effectiveness- we spend half our money on health care
- identify psychological earlier
- Personalized Medicine- antidepressant might work for one but not for another because of location and density in the brain
- 9 months on average to get the point of “I’m feeling ok”