Public health Flashcards
Health inequality WHO def
all variation in health
More F than M get breast cancer
Traditional health inequality vs inequity
inequality: unfair
inequity: non-modifiable eg FHx
Race def
what they look like
Ethnicity
mix of culture and heritage
Inverse Equity Hypothesis
With a new intervention, the most advantaged benefit first,
This leads to an increased initial inequality
Before the rest follow, reducing the gap
5 axis of inequality
gender socioeconomic geographical race/ethnicicty age
Relative inequality
ratio between least advantaged and most advantaged groups
Absolute inequality
difference in health outcomes between the least advantaged and most advantaged groups
Healthy screening bias
People who come for screening tend to be healthier
Length time bias
picks up slowly progressing disease
so all the less invasive ones are included, giving the screening a better result than it actually has
Lead time bias
people who were picked up by screening sooner,
a biased increase in survival time
3 domains of public health
Health promotion
Health protection
Improving services
Leading cause of death in women
dementia
Leading cause of death in men
IHD
Basic reproduction number (R0)
number of secondary cases you get from one primary infection
