Module 3 Flashcards
What is population health
Health outcome of a group of people including the distribution of outcomes within these groups
- Patterns in community
What are two groups which have worse distributions of health in the population
Maori have lower life exspectancey than non-maori
Low socieoeconomic status has worse healthcare
What considerations should be taken into account when thinking about soceoeconomic standard
occupation - employed, between jobs
education - highets level
income - gross, how many people is this for
living standard - Economic living standard index
Area or individual
What is the difference in absolute and relative poverty
Absolute = cannot reach a minimum nutritional diet and/or essential nonfood requirements
Relative = necessities are identified relative to each society and economy
What is NZDep + why is this a good measure
NZDep is a measure of socieoeconomic status perormed by breaking NZ into areas of 100-200 people and Sociring each
- scores = deciles out of 10, 10% population in each category
Good: includes everyone, range of areas, can determine peoples via adress
What are social determinants of health
conditions about a person:
Birth, how they grow, live, work, age, systematic challanges
What are the layers of determinants of health
Youself: age, bodytype
your habits: smoke, drink etc
community around you:
Work and lifestyle
economic and cultral condition
What is a group 1 diseases
preventalble issues:
Child birth
Nurtritonal complecations
Communicable diseases
What is the difference between morbidity and mortality
Morbidity = number of people being made unwell
Mortality = number of people dying
What is DALY
Disability adjusted life years - 2 factors
ajusted by years when life is lost
adjusted by years spent living with disabiltiy
1 DALY = 1 year of life lost
What have been the NZ daly trends
The rate of the DALY has been decreasing
- as we get better at keeping people alive
The total amount of DALY has been increasing
What have thre trends for diseases been like between rich and poor countrys
rich: almost exslusivly non-communicable = largest killers over time
poor: the number of communicable diseases is still very large - rates drop
What are two theorys for population diseases pattrurns
Demographic transition:
explaining how the birth rates and death rates fall while population grows
Epidemiological transition:
changes in diseases patturns over time
- rise in non communicable disese
- fall in communicable disease = favored by inventions such as clean water + hygine + waste removal
What are the trends about the ageing population
Over time the population is getting older - exponentiial increase in the numebr of people living 90+ years
doesnt give many countrys long to adapt systems to deal with the aging population
what is the compression of morbitity
Focus on trying to make morbitiry occur later in life
focuses on trying to lower the progresion of chronic conditions disease and disability
shift the rates of these to be later in life to - so that we can focus on better care for less people
- keeps people being functional members for longer
