Chapter 3 health and diseases content slides part 2

Chapter 3 health and diseases content slides part 2

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  Chapter 3 Health andDiseases Part 2: Difference in health, DC vs LDC
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  Objectives •What are the3 key categories of factors that lead to a difference in health between DC and LDC?
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  The Big Three SocialFactors • Diet • Lifestyle • Education Economic Factors • Poverty and affluence • Investments in healthcare, access to services Environmental Factors • Living conditions • Access to potable water
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  Social Factors •Diet •Lifestyle choices •Education
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  Diet • Food anddrink that individuals and communities consume. • Poor diet leads to malnutrition. • Obesity is the condition of excessive consumption of nutrients which are stored as fat. PG 184
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  Lifestyle choices • Habits,attitudes and activates in life. • Bad lifestyle choices lead to significant health issues – Smoking, consumption of alchohol and drug taking – Physical activity – lack of – Balanced diet – lack of • Potentially leading to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease & depression. PG 184 & 185
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  Education • Process ofteaching and learning. • Taken in context of formal institutions. • Higher education will lead to greater opportunity to be employed / have higher disposable income. PG 186
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  Economic Factors 1.Poverty andAffluence 2.Investment in healthcare and access to health services
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  Poverty & Affluence •Health issues in LDCs tend to be a result of poverty –Condition where there is a shortage of financial or other material resources. –Limits access to key nutrition –Limits access to medical services –Concept of poverty line is vital, living below the poverty line has a strong impact on health
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  Affluence • Having abundantsupply of money, property and other materials. • Greater access to food and better quality health services • Overall better resistance to diseases and better ability to deal with diseases. • Higher risk of over-eating, over nutrition, obesity.
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  Investment in healthcare and access to health services • Health care refers to resources devoted by government, businesses or individuals • Addresses health and medical needs of the population • Money used to build infrastructure and buy equipment • Amount and quality of healthcare depends on affluence.
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  Doctor-patient ratio • HighDoctor-Patient Ratio –More able to look out for patients –Easier to get access to a doctor –DC tends to have better ratios •Exceptions do exist, CUBA.
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  Environmental factors 1.Living conditions 2.Accessto potable water 3.Proper sanitation
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  Living Conditions • Setof characteristics that include housing, living spaces and access to basic services. • Durable housing of a permanent nature • Sufficient living space • Easy access to safe water (affordable price) • Access to adequate sanitation
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  Access to safedrinking water • Potable water –Water that can be safely consumed • Lace of access leads to spread of waterborne diseases –Cholera –Hepatitis –Lead poisoning
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  Proper sanitation • Facilitiesfor safe storage, treatment and disposal of waste • Proper management of human waste is integral in controlling the spread of disease • Human waste contains harmful micro- organisms that can be deadly
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  Review • How doeshaving more disposable income help alleviate each of the negative factors that have been mentioned? • Besides the individuals having more disposable income, how can a government help it’s people overcome these negative factors?