HLT POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Population Health, Socalled, Food Desert

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Other determinants education and income, genetics, behaviors, and environmental exposures are responsible for much of the health, or disease, in a population. In fact, the effects of the systematic differences in health care are far smaller than the effects of the nonrandom differences in other determinants of health on a population"s overall health outcomes. Population health employs an integrative model in understanding and seeking to improve the health of groups of people, acknowledging that different factors intersect and combine to produce good or poor health. To do so, it analyzes the patterns or distribution of health between different groups of people in order to identify and understand factors leading to differences in outcomes. Population health scientists use the term determinants of health rather than factor or cause, and they use the term multiple determinants of health to describe the determinants that arise from five important domains:

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