Notes in EH2 Week 2

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Published	08/12/2024	The root cause of a health problem ie. what is the patients context and what are the circumstances that lead to the issue
Published	08/12/2024	These are things are not directly related to health but will have an effect down the line such as the persons environment, culture, geographical locat…
Published	08/12/2024	These factors have more of a direct link to health outcomes than upstream. They include things like smoking status, alcohol consumption, high risk sex…
Published	08/12/2024	These are biomedical factors that affect health, such as blood pressure, body weight, immune status, birth weight, etc.
Published	08/12/2024	Circumstances throughout our life that affect our health and well-being
Published	08/12/2024	They impact on peoples risk for diseases,They impact on disease progress and severity,They impact the capacity of individuals to manage or prevent dis…
Published	08/12/2024	Because of the social determinants of health which vary for everyone
Published	08/12/2024	Differences between the health status of individuals among a population, which may be due to reasons within or outside of the persons control
Published	08/12/2024	A health inequality simply denotes a difference in status, wheras a health inequity is a difference that unjust, unfair, or preventable
Published	08/12/2024	Providing everyone with the same opportunities for health, regardless of their cotext
Published	08/12/2024	-social gradients-stress-early life-social exclusion-work-unemployment-social support-addiction-food-transport
Published	08/12/2024	It is the relationship between health and the socioeconomic status, graded from richest to poorest
Published	08/12/2024	The social gradient can be applied to larger or smaller populations and is even present within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
Published	08/12/2024	It describes a phenomenon where those from the poorest sectors of society, who should require the most health care, gain less from health care than th…
Published	08/12/2024	This refers to early events in life which predispose the poorer to subsequent inequalities
Published	08/12/2024	This refers to how culture and/or behaviour can trigger disproportionate health outcomes. These may be smoking status, alcohol consumption, nutrition,…
Published	08/12/2024	More than to physical structure, this refers to structural differences in society, such as housing, overcrowding in poorer communities, poor education…
Published	08/12/2024	This refers to inequiality arising from stress and a lack of social support/capital, which is more common in poorer communities
Published	08/12/2024	This refers to blaming the patient for their ill-health, rather than their circumstances or inequities within the health care system. This arises from…
Published	08/12/2024	The hierarchy of needs explains how the basic needs of a person must be met, before they are properly able to concern themselves with less fundamental…
Published	08/12/2024	Grouping people different form ourselves together and proceeding to make assumptions about them collectively (eg aboriginal men are impatient when it …
Published	08/12/2024	Racism engrained within social structures such as political or health systems. This may be intentional or not. (example of black missing jogger mistak…
Published	08/12/2024	systemic/structural
Published	08/12/2024	An example may be an Aboriginal health service, which has its location and opening hours suited to the convenience to its non-indigenous workers, rath…
Published	08/12/2024	These are social or institutional factors which exclude people from accessing certain services, resources and assets.
Published	08/12/2024	A social network
Published	08/12/2024	Rural communities,elderly,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People,People with disabilities,people with co-morbidity,mentally ill,migrants,homeles…
Published	08/12/2024	It describes the capacity of individuals to access, understand, and communicate health information and services
Published	08/12/2024	They lack empowerment to:participate in health decisions,provide feedback on health services,insist on being informedThis can, however be changed thro…
Published	08/12/2024	provider level,service level,systems level,
Published	08/12/2024	by being patient-centred,culturally sensitive,and aware of the SDoH (social determinants of health)
Published	08/12/2024	Asking patients to repeat plans, information, or instructions in their own words
Published	08/12/2024	patient-centred and preventative care,providing culturally secure services,use of local workforces,
Published	08/12/2024	using IT to support patients to come to the clinic,record ethnicity to identify 'at risk' groups,using IT to manage targets (setting reminders for cer…
Published	08/12/2024	flexible appointments,opportunistic care (eg health screening complimentary to addressing chief complaint),developing care plans,reorienting health se…
Published	08/12/2024	providing health resources,advocating for patients,refer patients to community health organisations
Published	08/12/2024	partner with community health organisations for better programs,patient-feedback surveys (did you feel you participated in your health care? etc.)
Published	08/12/2024	Providing access to the same spectrum of services to the whole population regardless of ability to pay (medicare)
Published	08/12/2024	Access to good primary health care improves equity (COMPLETE acronym)
Published	08/12/2024	Teach future workforce patient-centred care,expanding scope of practice of workforce
Published	08/12/2024	Provide incentives to doctors who practice in such a way that improves equity eg incentives for rural practice, screening tests, vaccinations etc.
Published	08/12/2024	Streamline hospitals and other health services for better continuity of care (eg My Health Record)
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