Health Inequalities Flashcards
1
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What are the 8 protected characteristics?
A
- age
- disability
- gender reassignment
- marriage and civil partnership
- race
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation
2
Q
What are the measures of socio-economic status?
A
- education
- income
- occupational social class
- housing
- area-based measures
3
Q
What does the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation measure?
A
- employment
- income
- health
- education, skills, training
- geographic access to services
- crime
- housing
4
Q
What is the inverse care law?
A
- availability of good medical care tends to vary inverly with the need for it in the population served
5
Q
What are the social determinants of oral health?
A
- power
- money
- wealth
- conditions of daily life
- politics
6
Q
What are the different sections of the Dahlgren and Whitehead model?
A
- age, sex and hereditary factors
- individual lifestyle factors
- social and community networks
- living and working conditions
- work environment, education, agriculture and food production
- unemployment, water sanitisation, healthcare service, housing
- general socio-economic, cultural and environmental factors
7
Q
What type of policies are effective at reducing inequalities?
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- structure changes in environment
- legislative and regulatory controls
- fiscal policies
- starting young
- community action
- improving accessibility of services
- prioritising disadvantaged population groups
- reorientation of health services
8
Q
What types of interventions are ineffective and increase inequalities?
A
- information based campaigns
- written mayerials
- campaigns reliant on people taking initiative to opt in
- health education campaigns designed for whole population
- approaches involving costs or barriers
9
Q
What are Marmot’s 6 key policy objectives of Fair Society, Healthy Lives (2010)
A
- give every child the best start in life
- enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives
- create fair employment and good work for all
- ensure healthy standard of living for all
- create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities
- strengthen the roll and impact of ill health prevention
