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Term Test 2 - M3, M4 Flashcards

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Communicable Diseases

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  • spread from person-to-person
  • 30% of DALYs
  • maternal, perinatal, nutrition
  • occur largely in poor populations
    ex: HIV, TB, Malaria
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Non-Communicable Diseases

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  • CANNOT spread from person-to-person
  • 60% of DALYs
  • not a high rate in poor countries
    ex: coronary heart disease, cancer, mental illness
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Injuries

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  • largest difference betwwen sexes
  • 1 in 8 make deaths
  • 1 in 14 female deaths
    ex: car crashes, suicide, war injuries
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DALY

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Disability Adjusted Life Years

  • overall disease burden
  • cumulative number of years lost due to ill-health, disability, early death
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YLL

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Years of Life Lost
- age of death
(life expectancy - average age of death)
- more weighting on early mortality (larger impact on the individual and society)
# of deaths X age of death (life expectancy - average age of death)

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YLD

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Years Lived with Disability
- disability + mortality
- weighting factor from 0 (perfect health) to 1 (death)
- number of years a condition effects quality of life
# of prevalent cases X disability weightinh factor

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HIV

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  • infects WBC helper T-cells
  • destroying of helpter T-cell results in AIDS
  • leading infectious disease
    (killed 39 million, 3.2 million children)
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HIV treatment

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  • antiretroviral therapy (ART)

- does not cure

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Tuberculosis (TB)

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  • infects 1/3 of population

- only 5-10% infected develop active TB infection

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TB treatment

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  • antibiotics

- potential for drug resistance (made worse with non-compliance medication)

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Malaria

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  • caused by the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
  • spread to humans by mosquitoes
  • more prevalent then HIV, but not as deadly
  • primarily occurs in Africa
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Malaria Treatment

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  • anti malarial drugs

- insectide treated mosquitoe nets/sprays

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Iron Deficiency

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  • most common nutritional disorder
  • impairs development in children
  • decreases work productivity in adults
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Protein - Energy Malnutrition (PEM)

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  • severe calorie or protein deficiency
  • starvation
  • more severe effects on children due to their lower protein intake
  • less common but more severe then iron deficiency
    6 million death/year
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Maternal Conditions

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  1. Impact on Children
    - poor care/nutrition of the mother
    - motherless children are less likely ot get an education
  2. Economic Reasons
    - 70% of those in absolute poverty are women
    - maternal health interventions = cost effective
    - women are more likely to spend their income on their family
    - better maternal health will strengthen the entire healthcare system
3. Social Justice 
women have unequal access to:
- employment
- education
- finances
- basic health care
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Neonatal Health - Interventions

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  1. Pre natal visits
  2. Skilled birth attendents
  3. Emergency care
  4. Post natal care
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Neonatal - mortality

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  • pre term birth (36%)
  • birth weight (28%)
  • birth trauma (23%)

40% of child deaths

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Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

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  • leading cause of morbidity and mortality
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CVD - conditions

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  • coronary (ischemic) heart disease
  • cerebrovascular disease (stroke)
  • hypertension (high BP)
  • heart failure
  • rheumatic heart disease
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CVD - risk factors

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  • high BP
  • high cholesterol
  • diabetes
  • tobacco use
  • unhealthy diet
  • physical inactivity
  • obesity
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CVD & Global Health

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  • 80% of deaths are in low/middle income countries
  • mostly occurs in mid life
  • affects socioeconomci status of person/family/countries

Low SES = more risk factors, higher morbidity/mortality

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CVD - interventions

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  1. Access to Medications
    - widely available
    - expensive medication
    - research is in progress to improve medication access for primary/secondary prevention
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Cancer and GBD

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1 in 3 people will develop cancer

1 in 9 people are at risk for developing cancer again

2 in 9 people are at risk of developing a second type of cancer

70% of cancer deaths occur in low/mid income countries

30% of cancers could be prevented by reducing risk factors

1/3 of cancers could be prevented with early detection

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Global Cancer Prevention

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  1. Educate - to increase avoidance of risk factors
  2. Vaccinate - against HPV, HBV
  3. Control - occupational hazards
  4. Reduce - exposure to sunlight
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Suicide - prevention

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  1. reduce Stigma/Misinformation
  2. reduce access to Suicide Means
  3. responsible Media Reporting
  4. Alcohol policies/reduce Harmful Use
  5. Follow up care - for people who attemtped suicide
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MDGs

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  1. stop Poverty/Hunger
  2. Universal Primary Education
  3. Gender Equality/Empower women
  4. reduce Child Mortality
  5. improve Maternal Health
  6. combat against HIv/AIDS, Malaria, other diseases
  7. environmental sustainability
  8. global Partnerhip for Development
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MDGs & SDH

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  1. Gender Inequality
    - work discrimination
    - no private/public decision making
    - more women in poverty
  2. Big Income Gaps - rich/poor
    2X stunted
    4X out of school
    2X U5 mortality
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SDGs

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  1. no Poverty
  2. no Hunger
  3. Good Health
  4. Quality Education
  5. Gender Equality
  6. Clean Water, Sanitation
  7. Clean Energy
  8. Good Jobs, Economic Growth
  9. Innovation, Infrastructure
  10. Reduced Inequalitites
  11. Sustainable Cities, Communities
  12. Responsible Consumption
  13. Protect the Planet
  14. Life below Water
  15. Life on Land
  16. Peace, Justice
  17. Partnerships for Goals
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Closing the Gap - in One Generation

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  1. Improve Daily Living Conditions
  2. Address Inequalities - power, money, resources
  3. Measure, Understand the Problem, Assess Impact to Action
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Improve Daily Living Conditons

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  1. Fair work, Health employment
  2. Social Security thorugout Life
  3. Healthy Homes
  4. Early childhood Health/Development
  5. Universal Health care
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Working Conditions - healthy

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  • financial security
  • social status
  • personal development
  • social relations
  • self-esteem
  • protection from physical and psychosocial illness
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Working conditions - adverse

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  • poor physical and psychosocial health
  • stress
  • increase risk of CHD 50%
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Job Security - effects

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  • induce poverty
  • material deprevation
  • incresed stress
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Early Childhood Health & Development

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  • first 8 years = critical for developmental changes and to reach full potenital
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Optimal Healthcare Systems

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  1. Local Action - across Social Determinants
  2. Health Promotion&Prevention - valued as high as medicine
  3. Primary Level health care - with referral to higher levels
  4. Equitable System - no worry for ability to pay
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Intersectional Action for Health (ISA)

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  1. align health policies across government departments
  2. promote health equity
  3. include several factors - with health secotr
  4. public policies - to address health outcomes
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Market Responsibility

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  1. Social Goods - governed by the public sector
  2. Enforce Legislation - promote gener equity
  3. Promote - political empowerment
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Gender Equity

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pervades in all societies

women have less:

  • power
  • resources
  • entitlements
  • social value
  • income
  • education
  • employmeny
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Empowerment - political decision making

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  1. give them autonomy
  2. opportunity - to voice needs and interests
  3. challenge - unfair distribution of social resources
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Reduce Health Inequity

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  1. Top-Down approach
    - state gurantees set of rights and fair distribution of resources
  2. Bottom-Up approach
    - grassroots
    - founded by self-organization of a disadvantaged group
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Barriers

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  • civil unrest
  • government policies/agendas
  • physcial barriers
  • cultural barriers
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Enablers

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  1. Willingness of Communities
    - to accept policies
    - participate in intervention
  2. Governmental Programs
    - make resources available for addressing health issues
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Social Demographic Index (SDI)

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High = incease in Non-Communicable diseases
Low = increase in Communicable diseases
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High SDI - increasing

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  • lower respiratory infections
  • colon/rectum cancer
  • lung cancer
  • most NCD
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High SDI - decreasing

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  • IHD
  • stroke
  • stomach cancer
  • breast cancer
  • injuries
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Low SDI - increasing

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  • diabetes
  • prostate cancer
  • breast cancer
  • pancreatic cancer
  • Ebola
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Low SDI - decreasing

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  • most diseases
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Mental Illness

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  • NCD
    7.4% DB
    5th leading DALY
  1. 9 million DALY
  2. 6 million YLL
  3. 3 million YLD

highest pop: age 10-29

1990 - 2010: 37.6%

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Mental Health - WHO Action Plan

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  • value mental health
  • protection, promotion
  • full human rights
  • health, social care
  • promote recovery
  • participate in society
  • free from stigmatization, discrimination
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Mental Health - Objectives

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  1. stronger Leadership/Governance
  2. Mental Health/Social Care services - community based
  3. Promtion/Prevention strategies
  4. improve Evidence/Research
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Mental Health - Approaches

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  1. Universal Health coverage
  2. Human rights
  3. Evidence based approach
  4. Life course approach
  5. Multi sectional approach
  6. Empowerment - of people with mental disorders
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MDG - challenges

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  1. Gender Equity - persists
  2. Gaps - rich/poor, rural/urban
  3. Climate Change - environmental degradation
  4. Conflicts - threaten human development
  5. Poor People - live in poverty, no access to basic services
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3 Pillars of SD

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  1. Social Progress
  2. Economic Growth
  3. Environmental Protection
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Gaps - examples

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  1. Lesotho born girl - life expectancy 42 years less then Japan girl
  2. Women giving birth - death
    Sweden: low risk (1 : 17 400)
    Afghanistan: high risk (1 : 8)
  3. Scotland life expectancy (adjacent)
    area 1: 54 years
    area 2: 82 years
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WHO - environmental health report

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Low Income Countries
- 13 million deaths can be improved with healthier environment
- lack of blood transfusions/blood banks
(125 000 women die from bleeding during birth)
- lack of clean water, sanitation (diarrheal)
- solid fuels indoor (respiratory infections)

High Income Countries

  • air pollution
  • stress (neurological disorders)
  • could prevent 1/6 of DB
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ABC Project

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  • early childhood intervention (30 years ago)
  1. enriched preschool
  2. access to healthcare
  • disadvantaged children in North Carolina neighbourhood

control group
- 1 in 4 males had metabolic syndrom (obesity, hypertension)

treatment group
- 0% had metabolic syndrome

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Mobile Creches Program

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India
- unsupervised children on construction sites

founder: Meera Mahadevan (1969)

  • daycare at construction sites
  • safe, nurturing, stimulating environment
  • promotes health development
  • increases worker productivty
  • employment opportunities to work with children

enriched children = future economic gain

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Universal Health Care Policy

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  1. Populaton:
    Who is covered?
  2. Quality of Services:
    Which services are coverd?
  3. Direct Costs:
    Portion of costs covered?
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Remunicipaliztion: Putting water into the public

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  • with private sector, water bill increased 88%
  • infrastructure produces work and jobs for low income workers
  • water provided to low income homes, famrs (reducing chemicals)
  1. water to privateization is reversible
  2. transfer to public sector, with little disruption
  3. committed to work force, improves water services

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