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| Question | Answer |
| Epidemiology | The health outcomes of a group of individuals includong the distribution of such outcomes within the group. The outcome for different groups will vary |
| Socioeconomic status | Measurement of an individuals statis in society based on factors such as living standards, deprivation, occupation, ethnicity, income and education. It highly influences health issues and access to treatment. |
| Social Deprivation | Individual disconnect from the resources and environment of a community |
| Relative poverty | standard of poverty determined by the society in which an individual lives in |
| Absolute Poverty | access to resources which are essential to life and survival are unobtainable by an individual or household |
| Social Determinants of Health | the conditions in which people are born, grown, work, age etc. These are influenced by the distribution of money, power, and resources. |
| Social Gradient of Health | the idea which deprivation is inversely proportional to an individuals health status. i.e increased deprivation= decreased health.vthis links to the ideas of absolte and relative poverty. |
| Communicable Disease | A disease which can be transmitted from person to person |
| Non-communicable Disease | disease which cannot be transmitted from person to person |
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