Health Inequalities

Question 1

SIMD

Answer 1

scottish index of multiple deprivation

based on
employment, income, health, crime, housing, education, geographic access to services

1 most deprived
5 least deprived

Question 2

inverse care law

Answer 2

availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served

deprived areas have fewer GPs
these GPs have more pts, less time/resources

Question 3

caries and socioeconomic factors

Answer 3

lower income = financial resources less
nutrition, knowledge, cooking less

lower access to affordable healthy diets

Question 4

upstream policies

Answer 4

healthy public policy - targets root cause

smoking ban in public spaces
school food policy
sugar tax
minimum wage

Question 5

midstream policies

Answer 5

community development
social prescribing, dental health support workers

Question 6

downstream policies

Answer 6

health education and clinical prevention - once it has already occurred

chairside clinical prevention
smoking cessation services