GEG 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Icu Scoring Systems, Gallbladder Disease, Osteoarthritis
20 Feb 2019
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It refers to the health of a population measured by health status indicators and as influenced by: social, economic and physical environments, personal health practices. Individual capacity and coping skills: human biology, early childhood development, health services. It focuses on interrelated factors that influence health over the life course. It applies knowledge to policies to improve health: overweight and obesity. Causes: energy-in exceeds energy-out (we eat more than we exercise, genetic, hormones and upstream factors. Obesity in canada (2015): 59% of the adult population is overweight (bmi higher than 30, higher rates of obesity in newfoundland (26%-28%, lower rates of obesity in b. c. and quebec (14%-16%) Obesity in the us: higher rates of obesity in the southeast (30% or more, lower rates in the west (20%-24%, nearly half of all americans will be obese by 2030. Health implications of obesity: diabetes (type 2) and complications, heart disease, gallbladder disease, high blood pressure and hypertension, stroke, asthma and asthma complications, osteoarthritis.
