[HLTH 101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (54 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

Terms from the readings/viewings to know & understand. Epidemiology: the science based on the modern concepts of hosts and agents, study of the patterns, causes, and effects of various health-related features in a population. Population model of health: determinants: industrial food production & subsides, taxation regime. World health organization (who: following the publication of the who"s report of the commission on. Social determinants of health (2008) and the world conference on. Social determinants of health, attention returned to the conditions that foster or impair the health of canadians: heath disparities or inequities between populations became the focus of research and policy discussion, at the federal-government level. Health inequalities: patterned differences in disease incidence, disability and life expectancy between sub populations. Health inequities: patterned differences in disease incidence, disability and life expectancy between sub populations that arise fro conditions that can be changed by collective action such as changes in public policies.