Global Determinants of Health

Question 1

What is age-standardised death rates?

Answer 1

Used to compare mortality rates of countries without being affected by diff in age distributions from country to country. Without using this standardization, it would be unclear if differing mortality rates were due to age or as a result of other factors

Question 2

What is population health affected by?

Answer 2

Demographic shape: age/sex proportions, Economic composition, Behavioural and lifestyle factors

Question 3

What are the global determinants of health?

Answer 3

Global warming. Socio-demographic factors: Demographic transition, Economic transition, Behaviour/lifestyle. Pop factors: Pop size/shape, age/sex rates

Question 4

What is the demographic transition model?

Answer 4

every country goes through transition

– pop stable with high death/birth
– as society gets better death decline, birth rate stays up = pop goes up
– though economic rise birth rate goes down
– creating new equilibrium

Question 5

What is economic transition?

Answer 5

a graph showing % of workers in agriculture, industry and service against per capita income

Question 6

Describe global income distribution

Answer 6

1% pop own the same amount as the poorest 56%

Question 7

Outline what a population pyramid is

Answer 7

shows what % of the pop falls in a certain age range: Rapidly expanding, Expanding, Stationary, Contracting

Question 8

Define sociodemographic

Answer 8

sociodemographic refers to a group defined by its sociological and demographic characteristics