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Avery Adams, Important words - Coggle Diagram
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Important words
determinists of health
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BIGGEMS is a acronym to help understand the detriments of a disease that look at both social and biological factors. It takes a more wholistic look at disease while still taking into account things like genetics.
Medicalization
Definition: Viewing a social, behavioral, personal or community based issue with a biomedical focus in order to try and solve the problem.
Medicalization can be seen in what research receive funding, how policy is written, insurance coverage and overall just the way money flows in and out of the health care system
Public health
Definition: Helps eliminate health disparities by making health programs and initiatives for vulnerable populations.
Public health a broad field that looks at things that include social determents of health, change in population, research, behavioral theory and many other things.
Population health
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When talking about population health the term venerable populations is talk about up which can be defined as a group that traditional and systematic has worse health outcomes due to systemic iissues outside of the groups control.
Interventions
Definition Strategies and programs designed to eliminate, prevent or limit the effects of disease, disability, behavior choices or systematic disadvantages
The article talks about how interventions have become too biomedical driven and that they often do not look at the up stream effect that lead to the development of a condition. They mention that while community partnership may be happening with in a program medical care they still focuses too heavily on a individual. Additionally the article mentions that while all interventions are helpful focusing on a population or community rather then a individual is better because ti solves the problem at the root.
Risk Factors
Definiton: exposures to things within everyday life that increase the likelihood of developing a diseases or experiencing injury
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