Economics and Political Influences on Health

Question 1

What economic factors are responsible for the infant morality rate, life expectancy and under 5 mortality rate?

Answer 1

Nutrition

Sanitation

Housing

Transport

Healthcare spending

Question 2

What is health equity

Answer 2

Depends vitally on the empowerment of individuals to challenge and change the unfair and steeply graded distribution of social resources to which everyone has equal claims and rights.

Inequity in power interacts across four main dimensions – political, economic, social, and cultural – together constituting a continuum along which groups are, to varying degrees, excluded or included

Question 3

What does the health gradient involve?

Answer 3

Poverty

Poor housing

Unemployement

Lack of education

Question 4

What does the health gradient have working against each other?

Answer 4

The individually orientated preventitive action against health hazards

Question 5

How much of UK population lives in poverty?

Answer 5

1 in 5

Question 6

What can governments do to help people achieve better health?

Answer 6

Economics- Tax and subsidise

Social policy- Effectively behaviour chnange

Question 7

What does Tax involve in health?

Answer 7

Sugar tax

Fat tax

Minimum alcohol pricing

Question 8

What does subsidising involve in health?

Answer 8

Winter fuel allowance

Free school meals

Cycle to work schemes

Question 9

What does social policy involve in health?

Answer 9

Ban advertising of unhealthy foods

Limit access to unhealthy foods near schools

Cycle lanes