Health Studies stage 3 2013

A group of people who have similar health needs and can be grouped together when targeting health prevention.

Able to reach, use and a service or product.

• Can't afford it
• Can't get to it (transport)
• It's not open when you need it
• Don't understand what to do (language or health literacy)
• service is confusing to use

• Lobbying
• Champions
• Influencing policy
• Mobilising groups
• Framing

Active support of an idea or cause. Standing up for people who cannot stand up for themselves.

A discussion to justify a position. How you explain your conclusions.

To insist on your rights being heard while being respectful and considerate.

A challenge. Something that prevents success.

Anything that produces results that differ from the truth eg presenting one side of an argument or leading people to agree with you.

• A disease that builds up over time (non-communicable, not infectious). Also take a long time to treat or recover.
• Eg, Diabetes, obesity or cancer.

Cognitive and behavioural strategies to cope with everyday living and stressful situations.

Belonging to a particular group. Identifying yourself as part of a particular culture or ethnicity.

• Customs
• language
• Values
• Norms
• beliefs
• Social behaviours

• Drought
• Flood
• Tsunami
• Earthquake
• Bushfire

A conceptual model that shows how health is affect by a range of factors such as relationships, community and society.

Helping someone to gain the skills and resources to achieve something. Increasing strength of people or groups to act on their own behalf.

Measures of health status such as life expectancy, incidence and prevalence of disease, mortality, morbidity.

The number of new cases of a disease in a population.

The total number of cases of a disease in a population.

Change to make it better. Improvements to a system.

• Pharmaceutical benefit scheme
• Public screening and immunisation
• Private health insurance rebate

Avoidable, unfair inequalities between groups.

A form of advocacy that aims to change policy or legislation. Could include writing letter or producing petitions.

Using a third party to resolve differences.

eight international goals for developing countries to improve health and development by 2015.

• MDG 4 - Reduce child mortality
• MDG 5 - Improve maternal health
• MDG 6 - Combat HIV, malaria and other diseases

• Unwritten rules that guide behaviour.
• Common beliefs, attitudes and values among a group.

Overcoming major stuctural barriers to health (not individuals or small groups) such as laws, health systems.

Measures based on quality of living eg social determinants.

Measures using data and numbers eg life expectancy.

Protecting the rights of all people in a community or population. Making things equitable for all people (not necessarily equal).

A set of links between individuals in a population. How information flows from one person to another.

An economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family’s economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation. 

low income and little education have shown to be strong predictors of a range of physical and mental health problems. This may be due to environmental conditions or a person's social predicament.

• Basic / Physiological
• Safety
• Social
• Esteem
• Self Actualisation

Because people are not motivated to move up the levels until they have the lower levels satisfied.