Exam1: Population Health, Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities Flashcards
Definition:
Public Health
Protecting and promoting health as well as preventing disease and disability.
Definition:
Population Health
the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. It is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire human population
What are Social Determinants of Health?
The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, age and the systems put in place to deal with illness. These systems are in turn shaped by wider forces such as economic stability, education, social and community context, health and health care and neighborhood.
Socioecological Model: Describe
A model which views individuals as having dynamic interactions w/ social and environmental features of communities – nurses working w/ community as client work to care for all parts of the community to achieve the goal of a healthy community because they realize the complex interactions that individuals have with them.
Public Health Core Area: Assessment
Systematically collecting data on the population, monitoring the population’s health status, and making information available about the health of the community
Socioecological Model: Levels of Influence
Individual Interpersonal Community Institutions Structures/Policies/Systems
What is the difference between Population Health and Population-focused Health?
Population health is a systems-level concept: describes health outcomes of a group of individuals measured through a broad spectrum of determinants that function both independently and cumulatively
Population-Focused Health relates to the health outcomes of a particular population or sub-population and making healthcare decisions for the population as a whole instead of individual members of the population.
Health Impact Pyramid: What is it?
The Health Impact Pyramid (HIP) is a five tiered pyramid which best describes the impact of different types of PH interventions. Interventions w/ greatest potential impact are bottoms, those w/ least potential impact are on top.
Lower level interventions tend to be more effective because they reach larger sections of society and require less individual effort.
Individual effort increases as you go up the pyramid.
Health Impact Pyramid: Define and describe each level.
(Base) Socioeconomic Factors: Poverty, education, housing, inequality
Changing the Context to Make Individual’ Default Decision Healthy: Fluorination, 0g trans fat, iodization, smoke-free laws, tobacco tax.
Long-lasting Protective Interventions: Immunizations, brief intervention, cessation treatment, colonoscopy
Clinical Interventions: Rx for HTN, hypercholesterolemia, DM
Counseling and Education: Eat healthy, be physically active
Describe DHHS Action Plan to eliminate health disparities
Five Major Goals:
- Transform Healthcare
- Strengthen infrastructure and workforce of nation’s HHS
- Advance American’s health and well-being
- Promote scientific knowledge and innovation
- Uphold accountability of HHS for making demonstrable progress
Describe the policy development process
Apparently we don’t have to know, per Rasha
What is the relationship between Population Health and the Triple Aim
Triple Aim (Improved Patient Experience, Reduced Cost, Improved Population Health) is a tool used to help focus on the improvement in the health of a population by addressing all areas at the same time.
What is he Triple Aim?
Improved Patient Experience, Reduced Cost, Improved Population Health.
