Week 2 Lecuture

Question 1

Types of health research?

Answer 1

Biomedical Sciences - Biological, med, clinical, drug & vaccine

Population Sciences -
Epid, Demography & Social Behaviour

Health Policy Sciecnes -
Policy, System, Services

Question 2

What Diseases or health problems are associated with mental illnesses?

Answer 2

Heart Disease
Stroke
Diabetes 
Asthma
Cancer
Arthritis
Osteoporosis

Question 3

What are Risk Factors leading into depression from chronic diseases?

Answer 3

Worsening Condition 
Unrelieved Pain
Dysphasia (Communication)
Functional Impairment 
Social Isolation
Diagnosis and Treatment

Question 4

What Environmental Factors influence health status?

Answer 4

Temperature, outdoors
Built - Building: Schools, Homes, Work places
Geographical Location
Remoteness

Question 5

What are the 3 adaptions to climate change?

Answer 5

Primary: The actions that are required to stop the onset of disease arising environmental changes

Secondary: Take steps required in response to early evidents of health impacts

Tertiary: Health care actions taken to lesson the impact of morbidity or mortality that the disease has caused

Question 6

The type of social people that climate change would affect?

Answer 6

Children 
Elderly, disabled, homeless
Indigenous populations 
People with compromised health 
Pre existing health conditions (both Mental & Physical)