HEALTH AS 2015
- Created by: lf6103
- Created on: 02-03-17 09:42
Health Issues
-
Global patterns of health, morbidity and mortality: health in world affairs.
-
The study of one infectious disease (e.g. malaria, HIV/AIDS) its global distribution and its impact on health, economic development and lifestyle.
-
The study of one non-communicable disease (e.g. coronary disease, cancer) its global distribution and its impact on health, economic development and lifestyle.
-
Food and health – malnutrition, periodic famine, obesity.
-
Contrasting health care approaches in countries at different stages of development.
-
Health matters in a globalising world economy – transnational corporations and pharmaceutical research, production and distribution; tobacco transnationals.
-
Regional variations in health and morbidity in the UK.
-
Factors affecting regional variations in health and morbidity – age structure, income and occupation type, education, environment and pollution.
-
Age, gender, wealth and their influence on access to facilities for exercise, health care, and good nutrition.
-
A local case study on the implications of the above for the provision of health care systems.
Key words
-
Health A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing
-
Morbidity Illness and disease
-
Mortality The death of people
-
Infant mortality deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1000 births per year
-
Case mortality number of those dying from a disease divided by the number of those diagnosed with it
-
Crude death rate the number of deaths per 1000 people in 1 year
-
Disease bodily disorder preventing good health
-
Pandemic epidemic spreads over large area
-
Epidemic quickly spreading disease affecting a lot of people
-
Endemic infectious disease always in an area
Global patterns of health, morbidity and mortality: health in world affairs.
Health
-
Health is defined as your physical, mental and social well-being, and the absence of disease
-
How healthy a country s depends on how much disease there is in the county, and what type if diseases there are
Morbidity
-
Morbidity refers to the state of being diseased or unhealthy within a population
-
It I measured by the ICU (intensive care unit) scoring system
-
The Morbidity rate is taken according to age, gender, area and type of disease
-
Global patterns of Morbidity differ depending on the type of disease
-
For example an infectious disease (malaria) is common in poorer countries where as non-communicable diseases (cancer) are common in wealthier countries
Reasons for high infectious disease (in poor countries)
-
Malnutrition (due to poor food availability and potential famines) reduces the body’s ability to fight disease
-
Lack of clean water and sanitation – increases the spread of infectious diseases
-
Overcrowded conditions in urban areas – increases spread of infectious diseases
-
Poor access to health care – people can’t access drugs to treat and prevent infectious diseases
-
Limited health education – people aren’t well informed about how they can avoid infectious disease
-
Disease vectors (organisms that spread disease) are more common in poorer countries e.g. mosquitoes that spread malaria are commonly found in tropical regions of Africa
Reasons for high non-communicable disease (in wealthy countries)
-
Higher proportion of older people (due to…
Comments
No comments have yet been made