HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Health
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Population health is defined as the health outcome of a group of people: group can be located geographically in a country, province, region, city or neighborhood, or racial group. Population health is measured as lifespan aka longevity. Indigenous people live up to 11 years less than non-indigenous canadians. Public health agency of canada describes population health approach as an approach to health that aims to: 1. Improve health of the entire population and to: 2. Sometimes changes in social, economic and health policies mean that the overall life expectancies improve, but health inequities continue to get larger. There is no correlation between understanding an individual"s risk of health to that of a population"s risk of health. Geoffrey rose help us understand the population risk of health. Can screen for risk factors like high blood pressure, cholesterol levels.
