Module Three

Question 1

what is population health?

Answer 1

the health outcomes of a group of individuals including the distribution of such outcomes

Question 2

How is health distributed in NZ?

Answer 2

can be distributed differently within different groups within the population

Question 3

what effects the distribution of health in NZ?

Answer 3

socioeconomic status

ethnicity

Question 4

how is socioeconomic status measured?

Answer 4

the new zealand deprivation index NZDep

Question 5

what determines health?

Answer 5

social and environmental factors

Question 6

what is health distribution?

Answer 6

variability of health outcomes between groups within a population

Question 7

what is the NZDep?

Answer 7

area based measure of deprivation
all NZ divided into areas of around 100 people
scored via decile from 1-10
applies to every area

Question 8

what is absolute poverty?

Answer 8

income level below which a minimum nutritionally adequate diet plus essential non-food requirements is not affordable

Question 9

what is relative poverty?

Answer 9

the amount of income a person, family, or group needs to purchase a relative amount of basic necessities of life: these basic necessities are identified relative to each society and economy

Question 10

what are social determinants of health?

Answer 10

the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life

Question 11

what are the determinants of health?

Answer 11

individual lifestyle factors
social and community influences
living and working conditions
general socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions

Question 12

how has the global burned of disease changed over time?

Answer 12

moved from death dominated by communicable disease to dominated by non-communicable disease

Question 13

what are the two theories of disease burned changed?

Answer 13

demographic transition

epidemiological transition

Question 14

what are type one diseases?

Answer 14

communicable diseases
maternal
neonatal
nutritional conditions

Question 15

what are the three classifications of disease?

Answer 15

communicable
non-communicable
injury

Question 16

what are non-communicable diseases associeated with?

Answer 16

old age

Question 17

how do diseases causing dealth vary with countries economic status?

Answer 17

low-income
-dominated by communicable disease
High-income
-dominated by non-communicable disease

Question 18

what is mortality?

Answer 18

rate of death

Question 19

what is morbidity?

Answer 19

any departure from physiological or phycological wellbeing

Question 20

why do we quantify the burned of disease?

Answer 20

to measure the gap between a populations current health status and ideal health status

Question 21

what is the social gradient of health?

Answer 21

the richer the country the greater the life expectancy

Question 22

what does the demographic transition theory explain?

Answer 22

changes in population death and birth rates over time

growth and change in populations over time

Question 23

what does the epidemiological transition theory explain?

Answer 23

changes in population disease patterns over time

• communicable disease
• non-communicable disease

Question 24

What is the importance of a healthy aging population?

Answer 24

to ensure that not only longevity of life is converved but the quality of life is also conserved