IDSB04H3 Lecture 4: week 4 lec/chp notes
9 Dec 2010
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Oct, 5 (week 4, lecture 4) chp 5. Health related info and knowing how to obtain it is essential to taking action to improve health. Plays a vital role in helping to identify needs and shape solutions. Not all deaths recorded; most of 50 million deaths each year lack medical certification. Social, political and economic factors for illness and death are insufficiently captured by routine health statistics. Many factors that influence health do not qualify as health statistics (rain, pollution, transport, etc. ) One of first priorities is to secure reliable health statistics collection. Where disease occurrence is highest, the numbers are the least trustworthy. Two assumptions: disease and death are medicalized processes that are certified by trained medical practitioners and publicly recorded. There is an agreed upon disease classification process universally applied by doctors through common diagnostic procedures. International classification of diseases (icd): cultural and economic factors limit adoption. *****table 5-1 uses for statistical health data (11 uses listed)
