Factors Impacting Health Disparities
What is one of the 5 factors impacting global health?
Environmental conditions, economic disparities, gender inequality, race inequality, access to healthcare
What is one of the vehicles of globalization?
Transnational pharmaceutical industry
Influence of Western psychiatry
Introduction to DCM
Internet
Advocacy groups
What is the global health index?
a tool developed to measure, evaluate, and rank the ability of 195 nations individual capacities to handle outbreaks of infectious disease
Differences at the societal level impact differences in peoples healthcare systems, true or false?
True
What is an example of an environmental influence?
Poor living conditions, inadequate access to healthy food options, pollution, climate change, natural disasters, lack of emotional support
What is the WHOs equivalent to the DSM 5?
ICD-10
How many indicators are evaluated for the global health security index?
37
15% of women had ______ or ______ vision loss than men?
moderate or worse
What percent of the population is affected by occupational disease?
90%
What is Costa Rica's medical hot spot?
Dentistry
What percent of countries have no plans, programs, or guidelines for national medication distribution during a pandemic?
91%
What year was ADHD medicalized in the US?
1960
What percent of ischemic strokes were experienced by women?
52%
What is an example of a motivation for seeking treatment abroad?
Health Inequalities, legal/cultural constraints, or economic reasons
What are the three indirect health impacts we talked about?
Food insecurity, extreme poverty, and education
What country had the highest increase in Ritalin use from 1993-1997?
UK
What country has the highest income disparity?
US
What are the two risks medical tourist take?
Procedure and international travel related infections
What are the worlds most deadly infectious diseases?
HIV and TB
What us the US index score?
75.9