Population Health Case Studies

Flashcards generated from lecture notes on Population Health Case Studies, focusing on Epidemiology, Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project and Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY).

Epidemiology ….is the study of the and patterns of health-events, health- characteristics and their causes or influences in well-defined populations…

The study of the distribution and patterns of health-events, health- characteristics and their causes or influences in well-defined populations.

The __ is a project commissioned by the World Bank with the goal of summarizing the burden of diseases and injury at the population-level based on epidemiological principles and best available evidence.

A project that aims to summarize the burden of diseases and injury at the population-level based on epidemiological principles and best available evidence, to aid in setting health service and health research priorities and to aid in identifying disadvantaged groups and targeting of health interventions.

__ is the summary measure of population health that combines data on premature mortality (fatal) and non-fatal health outcomes to represent the health of a particular population as a single number.

A summary measure of population health that combines data on premature mortality (fatal) and non-fatal health outcomes to represent the health of a particular population as a single number.

DALYs are measured using the data elements: _ and _.

Years Lived with Disability (YLD) and Years of Life Lost to mortality (YLL).

Group 1 conditions in the GBD project includes _ AND problems in pregnancy, childbirth, or early life (perinatal conditions)

Communicable diseases (infectious diseases), and problems in pregnancy, childbirth, or early life (perinatal conditions).

Disability weights are _ as the severity of an impairment relating to a disease/health condition.

Considered to be the same as the severity of an impairment relating to a disease/health condition, and do not vary with a person’s social position, where they live, their access to healthcare or any other life circumstance.

Medical Model Focus: _

Individual impairment.

Social Model Causes: _

Social structures, policies, environmental factors, attitudes