Health Flashcards
Name some health indicators?
Life expectancy, death rate and infant morality rate.
Define health
Your physical, ,mental, and social well being and the a sense of disease.
Where is life expectancy highest?
Wealthier countries such as USA, UK and Canada.
Define morbidity
Illness
What are the morbidity indicators?
Prevalence and incidence
What’s prevalence
It’s a morbidity indicator. It is the total number of cases in a population at a particular time.
What’s is incidence?
It’s is a morbidity indicator. It is the number of new cases in a population during a time period.
Give some example of infectious diseases and where are they most common?
Malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB
They are most common in poorer countries.
Give some examples of non-communicable diseases and where are they most common?
Cancer and heart disease.
More common in wealthier countries.
Where are here high rates and low rates of TB (infectious diseases)?
In Poorer counties, such as Sub-Saharan Africa there are high rate. In wealthier countries such as USA, UK and Australia there are low rates.
Give reasons for the high infectious disease morbidity in poorer countries
Malnutrition reduces the ability to fight off disease. Lack of clean water and sanitation. Overcrowded conditions. Poor access to health care. Limited health education.
What are the morbidity patterns of non-communicable diseases?
There’s highest great cancer morbidity in MEDCs such as UK, USA and Australia. There are low rates in LEDCs such as Africa and Asia.
Give reasons for high non-communicable disease morbidity in wealthier countries?
Higher proportion of elderly due to high life expectancy.
Unhealthy lifestyles factors, the risk of getting some diseases increases if your overweight, eat unhealthy food or lack exercise.
Define mortality
Death
What’s the mortality rate?
How many people die in a population over a period of time .
Why is the risk of dying from diseases higher in LEDCs?
Malnutrition so the body struggles to fight of disease.
Poor access to health care, they don’t have access to the drug they need.
(In MEDCs they may have a high mortality rate but there is a low percentage of death)
Name some organisation that help prevent disease world wide.
WHO - world health organisation.
They run a programme of vaccinations.
What are transnational companies?
They are companies that operate in more than one country. Some are very large with huge budgets and powerful political influence.
What are pharmaceutical companies?
They research, develop, produce and distribute drugs to treat disease. They choose which drugs to develop and what prices to charge.
Why do pharmaceutical companies often choose to research and produce drugs for diseases that mainly effect wealthier countries?
There’s more money in wealthier countries, this leads to improved health care in wealthier countries.
Pharmaceutical companies have exclusive rights for 20 years to produce new drugs they have developed, this means that …
They can set any price for hem because you can’t get hem anywhere else.
Why a pharmaceutical companies bad?
Some poorer counties won’t be able to afford drugs they need because the companies give them high prices as they are the only people who have the right to sell them.
What is GlaxoSmithKline?
One of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies, it produces different drugs and health products.
How many packs of medicines and health care products does GSK produce per year?
4 billion, this includes one quarter of the worlds vaccines.
