2209MED Priorities and Interventions in Public Health Question and answers rated A+

2209MED Priorities and Interventions in Public Health Question and answers rated A+6 examples of public health concerns: - correct answer 1. COVID-19 2. Environmental disasters 3. Tobacco 4. Natural disasters 5. Malnutrition 6. Ageing population definition of health transition - correct answer shift in the health status of a population that usually occurs in conjunction with socioeconomic development definition of a demographic transition - correct answer change in the population of a country as it moves from high fertility and high mortality rates to low fertility and low mortality rates depending on increased economic and technological development definition of epidemiological transition - correct answer a transition from infectious disease to chronic and/or degenerative diseases attributed to 'modernity', 'industrialisation' or 'anthropogens' (caused or influenced by humans) associated with "modern man-made environments, their by-products and/or lifestyles encouraged by those environments two major strategy dichotomies - correct answer 1. socio-environmental vs individual behaviour change strategies 2. high risk individuals vs whole population strategies explanation of socio-environmental strategies - correct answer strategies address the causes of disadvantaged groups that illness negatively affects due to their social and economic disadvantage explanation of individual behaviour change strategies - correct answer strategies directed to individual interpret