Lecture 2: healthier groups than others

Question 1

What are the main DETERMINANTS that determine the health status of populations

Answer 1

Employment, ethnicity, gender, income, education, housing and deprivation

Question 2

What is the NZDep?

Answer 2

Is a measure of socio-economic deprivation within an area

- runs of a scale from least deprive 1 to most deprived 10

Question 3

Is good health distributed evenly in New Zealand?

Answer 3

NO - people who have low SES & a high level of deprivation tend to always be less healthy and have a high mortality rate - short life expectancy
- Maori and PI have low SES and so have poor health

Question 4

How is NzDep measured?

Answer 4

By household access to:

• Car - Employed/unemployed
• Telephone - Income
• Qualificatitons - Bedroom occupancy
• Own home - Single parent health
• Receiving a benefit

Question 5

What is public health?

Answer 5

The health of a population - NOT an individual

- preventing and promoting health in groups of people

Question 6

What is the definition of epidemiology ?

Answer 6

The study of distribution and determinants of disease in a population

Question 7

What is the social gradient of health?

Answer 7

How prone to illness someone is in their socioeconomic situation

Question 8

What is relative poverty?

Answer 8

A measure of poverty comparing btw groups in a single country

Question 9

What is absolute poverty?

Answer 9

A set figure that can be used to compare poverty between different countries