Module 3 Flashcards
What is socioeconomic position?
It is a relative measure
“The structural and economic factors that influence what positions individuals or groups hold within the structure of society”
In order for socioeconomic position to be a use full measure what determinants must be used?
Objective
Measurable
Meaningful
Why measure socioeconomic position?
- Used to quantify the level of inequality within or between societies
- needed to help understand the relationship between health and other social variables
What elements are measured for measuring socioeconomic position for individuals?
- education
- Income
- Occupation
- Housing
- Assets/wealth
Measuring socioeconomic position for populations?
- Area measures ( area deprivation, access deprivation)
- income inequality
- Literacy rates
- Gross domestic product (GDP)
Socioeconomic individual lifestyle factors?
- Focuses on YOU
- Your education, income, occupation
- you make the decisions to influence your opportunities
How does your economic position relate to health?
Education related to health - more educated less likely to smoke etc
Social and community influences socioeconomic position?
- Your parents education, income, occupation
- your own influences are influenced by your parents education, occupation, income & assets
Living & working conditions influences o socioeconomic position?
- Use area based measures (most common in NZ is NZ index deprivation
- other measures include social fragmentation & accessibility index’s
Variables included in the NZ deprivation?
- Communication - people aged < 65 with no access to internet
- Income = 18-65 receiving a benefit
- Income = income below threshold
- Employment = unemployed
- Qualifications = no qualifications
- Owned home = not living in own home
- Support = single parent families
- Living space = below bedroom occupancy thresholds
- Transport = no access to a car
General socioeconomic, cultural, environmental conditions?
- Groups populations with similar socioeconomic position levels together
- cross-sectional or longitudinal
- The NZ census mortality study
- Using the integrated data infrastructure
Global socioeconomic position?
- Income inequality
- National income
- Literacy rates
- Free trade agreements
Why do we need population data for ?
Measuring trends - births, mortality, morbidity, migrations
More applied work
The population data sources?
The census Estimated resident populations Vital effects Health service utilisation and outcomes (HSU) Integrated data infrastructure (IDI) Nationally representative surveys Ad how surveys
Why denominators and age structure matters?
HSU
IDI
When collecting data we have to be mindful of?
Ethics & data privacy Purpose of data collection Population Vs Population samples Are they representative sample? Objective vs subjective measurements
Population structure measures?
Ages & sex
Population composition?
By other attributes
Ethnicity coding protocol used?
Total response output
Prioritised response output
Sole combination
Population structure effects?
Fertility
Mortality
Migration
Types of aging?
Numerical & structural aging
Numerical aging?
Absolute increase I the population that is elderly
Improvements in life expectancy
Structural aging?
- The increase in the proportion of the population that is elderly
- driven by decrease in fertility rates
Natural decline of the population occurs?
- When there is more deaths then births In a population
- combination of absolute and structural aging
Absolute decline of the population?
Occurs when there is insufficient migration to replace the lost births & increased death rates
Main causes of death in NZ are?
Cancer
Ischaemic heart disease
Stroke
Chronic lower respiratory disease
What are viral effects?
Births, deaths, marriages
Health service utilisation & outcomes is recorded by who?
Ministry of health record and report
What are important pieces of information that you need to know about a pandemic?
- How transmissible it is
- How severe & unequal
- How controllable
- How certain is the info and how stable is the threat
What are the main strategic options for responding to a pandemic?
Control (reduce incidence)
Eliminate (reduce to zero In country)
Or do nothing
What is the reproductive number?
Mean number of infections directly generated by 1 case in the population where all individuals are susceptible to infections
Effective reproductive number?
The number of additional infections caused by an initial infection at a specific time
Intervention for elimination strategy?
Exclusion of cases
Case & outbreak management
Preventing community transmission
Social safety net
How would you measure the success of your pandemic response?
Rapid decline
End of community transmission
Deaths
Recovered
How do you calculate herd immunity?
1-(1/Ro)
How do you calculate population immunity?
Vaccine effectiveness X vaccine coverage
What is misinformation?
False information that is spread regardless of intent to mislead
What is Disinformation?
Deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda
What lessons are there from the pandemic in terms of future threats?
- Improving evidence based informed decision making
- adapting response to future threats
- building effective public health infrastructure
- supporting effective global health institutions
- seizing public health opportunities provided by the COVID 19 reset
Maori health assumptions?
- Demographic differences between Maori & non Maori populations and implications
Ethnicity is what?
A social construct
Maori health is exemplified by systematic disparities In what?
Health outcomes
Exposure to determinants of health
Health system responsiveness
Representatives in the health work force
Disparities in Maori health?
- Unequal access to SDH
- CVD
- Cancer
- Injury
- Diabetes
- Mental health inc self harm
- Infectious diseases
- Disability
- Participation in the health workforce
What does disparities mean?
Differences
What does inequalities mean?
Unequal, no judgement
What does inequities mean?
Social justice/ fairness
Structural issues for the titanic example?
Lack of Life boats Barriers to the boats for 3rd class passengers
Social interventions for the titanic ?
Right based approach
Commitment to reviews and level playing field
What lessons can we learn from the titanic example?
We can have a levelling interventions which are not privileging - such as the escalator example which levels the death rate but not privileging
As deprivation increases so does what?
Death rate increase
Why do disparities exist?
Internal = Within Maori External = how the external environment treat Maori - this is the important one
What are the determinants of ethnic inequalities in health ?
- Differential access to health determinants or exposures leading to differences in disease incidence
- Differential access to health care
- Differences in quality of care received
Differential access to health determinants or exposures leading to differences in disease incidence
Differences to exposure of determinants of health leads to differences in health outcomes
- Such as poor housing leading to respiratory problems
Differential access to health care
No vehicles to get to quality health care, costs, deprivation
- Maori suffer more deaths by IHD, however, receive less angioplasties
Differences in quality of care received means?
Once in the healthcare system - the treatment received by the Maori is normally poorer than if you were non-Maori
Structural contributions to Maori health?
The power, resources and opportunities of NZ society are organised by ethnicity
Societal contributions to Maori health?
That there are values & assumptions widely held I NZ society about the deservedness of different groups of people
Variables in the NZ dep?
Communication
People aged <65 with no access to internet
Variables in the NZdep?
Income (1)
People aged 18-65 receiving a means tested benefit
Variables in the NZdep?
Income (2)
People living in equivalence household with income below an income threshold
Variables in the NZdep?
Employment
People aged 18-65 unemployed
Variables in the NZdep?
Qualifications
People aged 18-64 without any qualifications
Variables in the NZdep?
Owned home
People not living In their own home
Variables in the NZdep?
Support
People aged <65 living in a single parent family
Variables in the NZdep?
Living space
People living in equivalised households below a bedroom occupancy threshold
Variables in the NZdep?
Transport
People with no access to a car
Ensuring area level deprivation?
It is another way of measuring people “relative” position In society
What does mitigate mean?
Avoid overwhelming health services
What does suppress mean in relation to COVID ?
Reduce to low level to minimise health effects eg HIV, AIDS
What does eradicate mean in relation to COVID?
Reduce to zero at global level
What does eliminate in relation to COVID mean?
Reduce to zero in a country or region
What does control mean in COVID ?
Reduce incidence/prevalence
Taking a history is critical otherwise you are what?
Treating the symptoms and not the underlying causes
Maori health early contact?
Initially flourished economically & socially
Maori health official engagement ?
Colonisation
Treaty of waitangi
Heralding an era of depopulation
Disease & dispossession
Maori health colonisation?
Was not value free
Assumptions heals by colonisers
Notions of superior & inferior
Notions of deserving & undeserving
Treaty implications - Creation of governments?
Art I & Art II
Art I?
- Construction of state sector - justice system, education, health, welfare
- Constitution act 1852
Art II?
Laws & policies
Disregard for Maori voice/ authority despite ART II
Maori land alienatioN relationship to health?
Social disruption
Breakdown of political power and alliances
Economic resource depletion & poverty
Different or denied citizenship - ART II?
Pensions
Old age pensions ART II
equal provisions for Maori & pakeha, however!
- Maori access difficult - through Maori land court
- Maori regUlarly removed from rolls
- reduced amount paid to Maori
Land alienation, policy alienation & unequal (inferior citizenship)
Contributed to what?
The poor health of the Maori