Test - Population Health

Wellness

Life Satisfaction or Gratification from Living

Well-Being

Happiness & Meaning & Self-Realization

Population Health

refers broadly to the distribution of health outcomes within a population, the health determinants that influence distribution, and the policies and interventions that affect those determinants.

how health outcomes are distributed within a population & also comparing populations to each other

Determinant

A definable entity that causes or is associated with or induced a health outcome (so ‘this’ leads to ‘this’) (ex. SES, Education, Upbringing, Genetic Predisposition and etc).

Population

more than one individual that share one or more common characteristic (ex. people living in waterloo)

It can be defined geographically, by sociodemographic characteristics, risk factors and other common characteristics.

Community

1. A group of people who have a common characteristics (can be defined by location, race, ethnicity, age, occupation, interest in particular problems or outcomes, or other common bonds)

2. Individuals with shared affinity, and perhaps geography, who organize around an issue, with collective discussion, decision-making, and action - acting on behalf of the community.

Population Pyramids

Often used to display changes in age distributions that occur over time; ___ examples of looking at statistics in a unique way to understand what’s happening here.

Fixed Population

A Type of Population; membership is based on an event and is permanent. (population status completelt the same the entire time)

Dynamic Population

A Type of Population; Membership is based on a condition and is transitory. (not steady state, people die/people are born; never an extended moment in time where population is completely the same)

Purpose of Population Health Science

provides us with the science and tells us what we need to know to understand what it is that causes health, so that then, in public health, we can intervene to make populations better

Public Health

The broad set of efforts that attempt to achieve prevention and treatment using large scale efforts for the population in consideration.

Epidemiology

The study of the distribution and determinants of health related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems; tool we use in evaluating population health problems.

Distribution

• determining who is impacted more by a certain disease or health condition

• Patterns of morbidity and mortality vary across subgroups of a population; these variations show how disease & determinants have different ————- according to different demographics, social and behavioural characteristics