Epidemiology

Epidemiology

1. Index of multiple deprivation

   • Income
   • Employment
   • Education
   • Disability and Health
   • Living environment
   • Crime
   • Barriers to housing

2. Gini index

   • How unequally a quantity is developed across a population
   • 1= perfect inequality
   • 0=perfect equality
   • RObin hood index
     • how much proportion of money would have to be transferred from rich to poor to make equal

3. Millenium development goals

4. Health inequality

   • Measurement
     • NS-SEC
       • National Statistics Socio-economic classification
       • Determines classification by job role
       • 1-8
   • Marmot review looks at health inequality
   • Black report
     • Associated poverty and poor health outcomes 

5. Registrar general social class

   • Social class dependent on job
     • Split into non-manual and manual

6. Definitions

   • Pandemic
     • Sudden rise in endemic in multiple countries
   • Epidemic
     • Sudden rise of cases in a country
   • Endemic
     • Cases present in a population

7. The main determinants of health

   • individual
   • social and community
   • Living and working conditions
     • education
     • health care services
     • housing
   • Socioeconomic, culture, environmental conditions

8. Most deaths/disability globally caused by

   • Children
     • Diarrhoea
     • Malaria
     • Pneumonia
     • Measles
     • Perinatal condition
       • just before and after birth
   • Adults
     • RTCs
     • HIV related
     • Ischaemic heart disease
     • Stroke
     • Depression
   • Most deaths in UK caused by
     • Male
       • Lung cancer
       • CHD
       • Stroke
     • Female
       • Dementia/alzheimer's
       • CHD
       • Stroke

9. Thrive Plymouth 4 4 54

   • 4 risk factors, cause the 4 diseases in plymouth which cause 54% of deaths
   • Risk factors
     • Inactivity
     • Smoking
     • Drinking
     • Diet

10. Government recommendations

    • Exericse
      • 30 minutes 3 times a week