Week 3: Social Determinants of Health Flashcards
1
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What are the categories of determinants of health
A
- behavioural risk factors (smoking, drinking)
- biomedical risk factors (high blood pressure)
- social determinants
2
Q
How did Germov, 2014 describe the social determinants of health?
A
- economic, social and cultural factors that directly and indirectly influence individual and population health
3
Q
determinants of health has more of an emphasis on what kind of health?
A
- population health rather than individual health or illness issues
4
Q
what are the groupings of determinants?
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- biomedical and genetic
- health behaviours
- socio-cultural
- socio economic
- environmental
5
Q
what are the steps to a determinants approach?
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- measure population health status
- identify risk factors
- calculate the contribution of risk and protective factors to health and disease
6
Q
a determinants approach focuses on how social factors impact on individuals to affect their?
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biological processes and change disease risk
7
Q
health inequality?
A
simple distributional difference in the rates of a condition or risk factor
8
Q
health inequity?
A
inequalities deemed to be unfair, unjust or avoidable
9
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health equity?
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- concerned with achieving fairness in the distribution
- enables people through resources, building capacities and power to change/control circumstances of their lives
