HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dcf Interframe Space, Health Literacy, Etiology
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The determinants of health & health behaviour: epidemiology: focuses principally on variations b/w ppl that are. Oct. 31 systematic, meaning identifiable groups of ppl experience dif levels of health: interacting triad of causal factors. Risk factors: suspected causes of disease @ individual level, characteristics of person, their behaviour or environment, risk or probabilistic language fitting since very few exposures inevitably cause disease. Determinants of health (dahlgren & whitehead, 1991: general term describing proximal & distal factors that impact health, micro: genetics, heredity, biology, meso: family, neighbourhood, community, macro: national & international conditions. Non-modifiable factors in white bubble, others are modifiable to improve pop health. Health inequalities: refer to systematic difs in health status b/w groups of ppl, including both those that arise naturally &. Health inequities: inequalities within groups that are, systematic, avoidable, unfair & unjust. Risk factors or health determinants: causes of disease in indvls, causes of disease in pops.
