Inequalities in Health Flashcards
What does the Black Report from 1980 state?
That the lower down the social scale you are, the less healthy you are likely to be.
What is the Marmont Review?
It was produced in 2010.
Addressed the social determinants of health and people living conditions and how this lead to health inequalities.
What did the Marmont review 2010 find?
People in the poorest neighbourhoods will die 7 years earlier.
The poorest people will spend more of their lives with a disability.
What is the average cost of health inequalities?
36-40 billion
What are the recommendation of the Marmont Review 2010?
Give every child the best start in life.
Enable children to maximise their capabilities.
Creating fair employment.
Ensuring a healthy standard of living for all.
Creating sustainable communities.
Strengthening the impact of ill-health prevention.
What does the Marmont 2020 confirm?
An increase in the north/south divide health gap.
Life expectancy has failed to increase for the first time in 100 years.
What does the Jarman index measure?
Unemployment
Overcrowding
Lone Pensioners
Single parents
Born in New Commonwealth
Children under 5
Low Social Class
What does the Townsend Index measure?
unemployment
Non-car ownership
Non-home ownership
Householdovercrowding
What does IMD measure?
38 dimensions of deprivation with 7 domains.
What is social class?
A hierarchy status where groups are classified on economic success and wealth.
What is the Registrar General?
MEasures social class by occupation
What are explanation for health inequalities?
Artefact
Selection
Lifestyle
What are possible deprivation explanations?
Education
Lifestyle
Diet
Language
Cultural
Under-provided community
How do we achieve change in health inequalities?
Evidence based interventions
Scaled up appropriately
Appropriately resourced
Persistent
What is Proportionate Universalism?
Actions are universal
Scale and intensity
Proportionate to disavantage
