Socioeconomics

Question 1

Key words for global health

Answer 1

Equity for all people
Interdisciplinary collaboration
determinants and solutions

Question 2

Social determinants of health:

Answer 2

1. social gradient
2. stress
3. early start
4. social exclusion
5. work
6. unemployment
7. social support
8. addiction
9. food (first 1000 days of life)
10. transport

Question 3

4 things that decrease life expectancy

Answer 3

1. war
2. epidemic disease
3. inequality
4. colonisation
   poverty

Question 4

4 things that increase life expectancy

Answer 4

1. technology
2. aid
3. trade
4. peace
5. industrialization

Question 5

4 phases of health transition

Answer 5

1. pestilence
2. receding pandemics
3. degenerative/man-made diseases
4. delayed degenerative diseases

Question 6

What kind of curve is the life expectancy - income per person like?

Answer 6

‘J’ Curve

Question 7

Greater income inequality = less infant mortality?

Answer 7

Nope.

Question 8

What’s so great about the Whitehall study?

Answer 8

Showed that higher in work hierarchy you were, the less risk of CVD

Question 9

What accounted for the other 60% of differences between grades in whitehall study?

Answer 9

chronic Stress and lack of control/power

Question 10

How does equity fit into the equation?

Answer 10

equity means more likely to give both sexes autonomy and control and power

Question 11

4 examples of underlying causes of cardiovascular disease?

Answer 11

long term stress
poverty
inequality at work, racism
lack of control

Question 12

“Health ______ really is a matter of life and death.” - Margaret Chan

Answer 12

Equity

Question 13

Empowerment is:

Answer 13

having a feeling of control over our lives and able to appreciate it.