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
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Future Priorities

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- smoking, high cholesterol food, exercise 
Health habits on the rise: 
- diabetes
- cancer
-obesity
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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
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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

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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”
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