P H 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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Identify the risk factors/agents associated with the problem: 3. Develop and test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the problem: 4. Implement interventions to improve the health of the population by preventing the problem: 5. Invisible hand doctrine: sources of controversy, economic impact. Policymaking : more than 60 scientists (20 nobel prize winners, pressure on cdc to promote abstinence-only sex ed, global warming scientist told that phrase climate change could not be used. Lecture 2: social determinants of health & health disparities: health disparity: healthy people 2020. 9/7/17: a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with economic, social, or environmental disadvantage. , disparities exist in 80% of hp 2020 objectives, cost is estimated at billion/year, health inequity: unfair, avoidable health disparities. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic.
