HLTH 210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Drug Resistance, Infant Mortality, Atherosclerosis
7 May 2018
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● Key course goal - provide students with an introduction to the challenges facing twenty-
first century health care and an appreciation of the importance of an integrated
approach, by exploring a diversity of perspectives that confront societies in matters of
health
● Learning goals
○ Students should be able to formulate approaches to addressing some of these
health challenges by the end of the course
● US health care ranks last among wealthy countries
○ In terms of healthcare quality, access, efficiency, and equity, infant mortality
● WHO: health financing total expenditure on health as % of GDP 2014
● Why should YOU care? Major findings for national health expenditures
○ Health spending is projected to grow at an avg rate of 5.8% per year
○ This is 1.3 percent faster than GDP per year over this period
○ As a result, the health share of GDP is expected to rise from 17.5 percent in
2014, 17.9 percent in 2016 to close to 20% by 2025
● NIH roadmap for medical research
○ Goal - transform delivery of health care through translation of basic research
findings to make health services predictive, personalized, and pre-emptive
○ Team science - needed to integrate basic science, clinical, and health services
research in collaboration with organized patient populations and community-
based health care providers
● Emory predictive health
○ Determinants of health - genetics, environment, behavior
○ Generic processes - inflammation, regenerative potential, immune health,
oxidative stress
○ Pre-disease
■ Impaired glucose tolerance
■ Early cognitive dysfunction
■ Increased carotid IMT
■ Depression
■ Asymptomatic pre-cancer
○ Disease
■ Diabetes
■ Neurodegenerative disease
■ Athero-sclerosis
■ Psychiatric disorders
■ Cancer
● Predicting health
○ The economy of health (david howard)
○ We can predict our own health (ellen idler)
○ Predicting population health: modern example (carlos del rio)
○ Behavioral predictors of health: the case of drug resistance (bill schafer)
○ Environmental predictors of health (gary miller)
○ How well does genetics predict health? (cecille jenssens)
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Document Summary
Students should be able to formulate approaches to addressing some of these health challenges by the end of the course. Us health care ranks last among wealthy countries. In terms of healthcare quality, access, efficiency, and equity, infant mortality. Who: health financing total expenditure on health as % of gdp 2014. Health spending is projected to grow at an avg rate of 5. 8% per year. This is 1. 3 percent faster than gdp per year over this period. As a result, the health share of gdp is expected to rise from 17. 5 percent in. 2014, 17. 9 percent in 2016 to close to 20% by 2025. Goal - transform delivery of health care through translation of basic research findings to make health services predictive, personalized, and pre-emptive. Team science - needed to integrate basic science, clinical, and health services research in collaboration with organized patient populations and community- based health care providers. Determinants of health - genetics, environment, behavior.
