Lecture 1.1: Intro to HaDPop Flashcards
What is the definition of Health?
The absence of disease
What is Public Health?
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting
health through the organised efforts of society
Population based and a collective responsibility for health
What Steps/Questions Does Public Health Involve? (4)
Problem —> Response
1) Surveillance: What is the Problem?
2) Risk Factor Identifier: What is the Cause?
3) Intervention & Evaluation: What works?
4) Implementation: How do you do it?
Examples of PH Interventions (8)
- Vaccination
- Motor-vehicle safety
- Safer workplaces
- Control of infectious diseases
- Decline in deaths from coronary heart
disease and stroke - Safer and healthier foods
- Healthier mothers and babies
- Family planning
Social Determinants of Health
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age
These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels
What is Health Equity?
Equity is the absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically
What is the Inverse Care Law?
The inverse care law states that the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served
i.e. those who are most in need of health care are least likely to have access to it
What is a Health Needs Assessment?
Identifying vulnerable populations with specific health needs
What are some of the main measures of health inequality?
• Infant mortality statistics
• Mortality statistics
• Morbidity statistics – including chronic disease management
• Life expectancy at birth
What is Epidemiology?
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution, patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined population
