What is the epidemiologic transition

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Assignment - Health & Medical Determinants of Health

Part 1 - Study Questions

Q1. What do we mean when we talk about "the determinants of health"? the range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors which determine the health status of individuals or populations

Q2. Which determinants have a more direct and which have a less direct impact on people's health?

Q3. Why are the social determinants of health considered to be so important?

Q4. What are the factors that have most determined your personal health?

Q5. What are the factors that would most determine the health of a poor person in a low-income country?

Q6. IF you could pick only one indicator to describe the health status of a low-income country, which indicator would use and why?

Q7. In your own country, what population groups have the best health indicators and why?

Q8. In your country, what population groups have the worst health status and why?

Q9. What might prevent a country from having an effective vital registration system, and how could such systems be strengthened?

Q10. How much credence should you put in data on key global health indicators?

Part 2 - Study Questions

Q1. If you could pick only one indicator to describe the health status of a low-income country, which indicator would you use and why?

Q2. Why is it valuable to have composite indicators like the DALY to measure the burden of disease?

Q3. As countries develop economically, what are the most important changes that occur in their burden of disease?

Q4. Why do these changes occur?

Q5. How might the burden of disease differ from one region to another in a large and diverse country such as India or Nigeria?

Q6. How do we expect the burden of disease to evolve globally over the next 20 to 30 years?

Q7. What is the epidemiologic transition?

Q8. What is the demographic transition?

Q9. What are the leading causes of death of young children in low-income countries?

Q10. What are the leading causes of death in high-income countries, and how are they similar to and different from the causes in low-income countries?

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