Module 11 - Challenges Ahead Flashcards
What did Covid-19 test?
- Our ability to effectively respond to and cope with a major disease threat
Who is more stressed out than ever?
- North Americans
What is on the rise?
- Anxiety
- Loneliness
- Depression
What is on the rise in Canada?
- Binge Drinking
- Methamphetamine Use
- Opioid Use
What are Americans more likely to die from more than a car crash?
- Opioid Overdose
What has been on the rise in social media?
- False content with misinformation
What is misinformation linked to?
- Reduced engagement in health precaution
- Increased susceptibility to Covid-19
What was social media linked to in the early stages of the pandemic?
- Higher spread of Covid-19
What are the benefits of tech and social media?
- Health monitoring
- Remote access to care
- Apps to promote good health productivity
What played a crucial role in keeping us connected during the pandemic?
- Technology and social media
What enabled governments and health agencies to continue functioning effectively?
- Technology and social media
What are smartphone use and push notifications associated with?
- Greater stress
- Increased Cortisol Output
- Reduced connectivity in areas of the brain related to control
- Withdrawal symptoms when stopped
What may lead to significnat improvements in well-being?
- Limit social media use to 30 min per day
What is psychological inoculation?
- Pre-bunking fake news
What might psychological inoculation be a vehicle for?
Conferring large-scale psychological resitance against misinformation and disinformation
What is growing globally?
- Inequality
What does inequality do?
- Stifle Growth
- Restrict Earning Potential
Why have people with disabilities been disadvantaged during Covid-19?
- Lack of accessible health resources
- Worsening inequality
What has increased Covid-19 risk among indigenous Canadians?
- Systemic Inequities
Why are people who already face discrimination more vulnerable during the pandemic?
- Lack of social connectedness
Who has been hit harder from the pandemic around the world?
- Poorer neighbourhoods
What does indigenous health research involve?
- Fostering a positive relationship with Indigneous communities
- Working harder to heal the wounds of the past
What does climate change as a public health issue involve?
- Rising atm. / oceanic CO2
- Rising Temperature
- Rising Sea Levels
- Melting Ice Caps, Glaciers
- Environmental Degradation
- Extreme Weather
Why is Climate Change a risk to health?
- Flooding, storm surges, sea-level rise
- Extreme heat, droughts, fires
- Breakdown of infrastructure, water supply
- Reduced agricultural productivity
- Increased malnutrition/related disorders
- Infectious and insect-borne disease
- Loss of ecosystem & biodiversity
- High STRESS
