L24: Health Inequalities Flashcards
What is a health inequality
Avoidable
Unfair
Systematic differences
In health between different groups of people.
Does the differences between groups for health inequality occur by chance
No
What does health inequality do to the healthy life expectancy
Limit it
What are the health inequality factors that policy considers
Socio-economic
Geography
Specific characteristic
Socially excluded groups
Give an example of an socio-economic factor
Income
Give an example of a geography factor
Region
Urban or rural
Give a specific characteristic factor example
Sex
Ethnicity
Disability
Give an example of a socially excluded group
Homelessness
How do we measure health inequality
We look at Life expectancy at birth Deprivation Healthy life expectancy Avoidable mortality Long term health condition Mental ill health
What is life expectancy at birth linked to
Socio-economic circumstances
How do we measure socio-economic circumstances
Index of multiple deprivation
What does the index of deprivation include
Level of income
Employment
Education
Levels of crime
What’s is the social gradient in health
The relationship between deprivation and life expectancy
Which gender lives longer compared to deprived areas
Males
What are 2 important measures to work of healthy life expectancy
Healthy life expectancy
Disability free life expectancy
Which groups are likely to have long term health conditions
Lower socio-economic groups
Deprived areas
Which people are more likely to experience mental ill health
Young women
What are the wider determinants of health
Social
Economic
Environmental
Conditions
What are the 4 behavioural risk factors to health
Smoking
Inactivity
Poor diet
Alcohol
What is the inverse care law termed by
Julian Tudor hart
What is the inverse care law about
Those who need the most are least likely to get and those who need the least tend to use health services more
