ID gaps in info to improve quality & quantity of data; Measure progress in addressing global health problems; Establish priorities for initiatives to promote health; Understand contributors to losses in human health
age-standardized
1990 --> 2010: increase in mortality but decrease in ____ _______ mortality
central sub saharan africa
absolute loss of health/years of life lost due to: death, non fatal illness/disabilities
Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) is influenced by (2)
Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) can be grouped by causes (2)
must have data to associate (3)
Health is influenced by multiple factors
Extends beyond biomedical and behavioral risk factors like:
Early life
Social
Work
Stress
Transportation
Unemployment
Addiction
Food
Socioeconomic status
Transportation
Housing
Access to services
Discrimination by social grouping
Social or environmental stressors
-Poverty has a higher rate of childhood mortality (<5 years old)
-However, some countries have a higher life expectancy than the United States with lower income levels per capita
Why?
Improving daily living conditions
Reducing the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources
Measuring and understanding social determinates of health to better plan interventions
health disparities
health disparities are divided by:
Self-reported vs. known by other means
-Direct observation
-Proxy report
-Extraction from records
Challenges to validity and reliability of health disparities
race; education, housing, employment
phenotypic expression of a racial group used in social construct
related allocation of resources to (3)
ethnicity
The sharing of a common culture, language, religion, and cultural traditions
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