Module 2 Flashcards
What are the UN Millennium Development Goals?
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure Environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
Burden of disease
A measure of the impact of diseases and injuries, specifically it measures the gap between current health status and an ideal situation where everyone lives to an old age free of disease and disability. Burden of disease is measured in a unit called the DALY.
5 principles of sustainable development
Living within Environmental limits Ensuring a strong, healthy and just society Achieving a sustainable economy Promoting good governance Using sound science responsibly
National health priority areas
- Cancer control.
- Cardiovascular health.
- Injury prevention and control.
- Mental health.
- Diabetes.
- Asthma.
- Arthritis.
- Obesity.
- Dementia.
Population risk
those in the population who are susceptible to a particular disease or condition or who have been exposed to an agent that could cause disease
Rate of disease
A measure of the frequency of a disease or condition, calculated by dividing prevalence by the incidence multiplied by the base number
Prevalence
The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at a given time, divided by the population at risk multiplied by the base number
Relative risk
A measure of the extent to which a group exposed to the risk has a higher rate of illness than those not exposed, calculated by dividing the incidence rate among those exposed by those not exposed. If the rate is higher among those exposed, it is called a risk factor.
Incidence
The number or rate of new cases of a particular condition during a specific time, divided by the population at risk multiplied by the base number.
Equity and health care systems:
Ensuring universal access,
Advocating for health in all policies,
generating evidence for equity and the SDH in all policies.
Social exclusion
Gender, culture, disability or any point of social difference can lead to social exclusion, which is detrimental to health and well being.
Social Justice
the fair distribution of society’s benefits, responsibilities and their consequences
Social Capital
A sense of trust, civic engagement, participation and belonging
? have an obligation to identify unfairness or inequities, and their underlying determinants
Health professionals
primary prevention
First contact or immediate line of care to maintain health and wellbeing
