HPE162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Household Income, Social Class, Hypercholesterolemia
HPE162
Exam Review questions
Lecture 1
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• . With efeee to the Ottaa Chates atio aeas eplai Austalias suess
story regarding tobacco.
• 3. Using Diabetes as an example, make a case for prevention.
• 4 Explain the difference between individualistic and collective approaches to health.
• 5. What is meant by social norms and how do these influence health positively and
negatively?
• 6. Explain with the use of examples why evidence based policy is important in health.
Major Public Health Issues
Health , ill health and what causes it
Recap: Socio –Environmental interventions
• Changing behaviour is hard – sometimes its easier to change the environment
• Changing the environment can change social norms, which can change behaviour
– Policy and legislation (making the healthy choice the easy choice and
sometimes the only choice)
– Supportive environments – physical and social environment
– Technological advancements
• What are our major killers and disablers?
• Social Determinants of health and Indigenous Australian health disparities
Global Inequities: Life Expectancy
• In developed countries life expectancy is 75.2 years
• 49.2 years in the least developed countries
– For persons born in 1999
• WORLDWIDE VV
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(WHO, 2014)
BY 2020: The Rise of Non-communicable Diseases
• Deaths from non-communicable disease are expected to rise 77%.
• Projections for rich countries show little change
• But change will be extreme in some developing regions.
• Why?
Leading causes of death in Australia (ABS 2013)
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Leading underlying causes of death in Australia by age group, 2011–2013
What are the Biggest Threats to Global Health after Climate Change and Dispossession
(WHO, 2006)
• TOBACCO:
– Estimated to kill about 10 million people a year by 2030
• New infectious diseases, epidemics (Eboli)
• Nutrition – both under and over
• AIDS:
– Destabilizing nations, reversing development trends, inciting famines (kills off
productive members of society)
AIDS:
• 42 million infected with HIV/AIDS currently,
– Over 95% in the developing world
• Over 20 million orphans in 2012
• 15,000 new infections each day
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Document Summary
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