HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Epidemiological Transition, Scientific Community, Tl;Dr
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Poverty more than material deprivation, (cid:3247)multi-dimensional(cid:3248) phenomenon. Health inequality actual differences (disparities) in health status (people) Health inequity difference believed to be unfair, stem from injust. The distribution, magnitude and severity of the threat. Definition of health (all the models) have different problems. Scientific community: how they communicate with the public, how reliable does the theory sound, and the quality. The media: how they understand what they"re given and how they tell the public through their understanding. The questions people ask (scientifically or not) and how they respond. Describe and understand population change (in birth/death rates) As countries are more developed; increase in death, decrease in birth decrease in death and increase in birth decrease in death and decrease in birth: epidemiological transition. Studies (cid:522)distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems(cid:523) Proposed by (cid:3247)omran(cid:3248) (1971) later wainwright worked with it as well.
