Population Health

Question 1

What is population health ?

Answer 1

the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the groups

Question 2

What is the goal of the Healthy People Framework ?

Answer 2

gives a 10-year framework that is science-based to improve the health of all Americans

Question 3

What are the 5 goals in the Healthy People Framework ?

Answer 3

1. attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being free of preventable disease, injury, or death
2. eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all
3. create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining the full potential for health and well-being for all
4. Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors, and well-being across all life stages
5. engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors to take action and design policies that improve the health and well-being of all

Question 4

What are Health Disparities ?

Answer 4

systematic, potentially avoidable health differences that happen based on social disadvantages or social advantages
- poverty, racial/ethnic disparities, children and elderly are examples of vulnerable populations

Question 5

What is the leading health indicator ?

Answer 5

infant mortality
- can be linked to factors like maternal health and access to healthcare

Question 6

What are the components of the social determinants of health ?

Answer 6

1. neighborhood and built environment
   - are there sidewalks where you can walk ?
   - do you feel safe to send your kid outside to play ?
2. health and health care
3. economic stability
4. education
   - do you have a good school system that supports your needs ?
5. social and community context
   - do you feel invested in your community and want them to do well ?
   - do you feel that you can lean on your community for support ?

Question 7

What does the social determinants of health mean ?

Answer 7

the circumstances in which people are born into, live, work, and age as well as the systems put in place that affect health

Question 8

What is health equity ?

Answer 8

where everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible
- in a “perfect world”
- where there is an absence of systematic disparities in health between social hierarches

Question 9

What are ways to resolve health disparities ?

Answer 9

1. federal policy
   - ACA, medicare & medicaid, Healthy People
2. state policy
   - Hoosier Healthwise
3. community programs
   - Marion Health Department vaccine clinics

Question 10

What are good leading health indicators ?

Answer 10

1. death indicator
2. infant mortality
   - can be linked to factors like maternal health and access to healthcare