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1
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What factors influence health and illness

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  1. Biological Factors
  2. Personal Lifestyle
  3. Physical and Social environment
  4. Health Services
2
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What was the black report of 1980

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Used to confirm social class health inequalities in overall mortality (and for most causes of death) + that health inequalities were widening

3
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What four mechanisms did the black report 1980 come up with to explain widening socio-economic health inequalities

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  1. Artefact
  2. Social Selection
  3. Behaviour
  4. Material Circumstances
4
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What was the role of the Whitehall Study of British Civil Servants cohort study

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Followed british civil servants

Collected information on risk factors: weight, cholesterol, smoking and blood pressure

5
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What was the outcome of the whitehall study

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There are inequalities in health and mortality between employment

Risk factors only explained one-third of the observed variation in health by employment grade

6
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What is the Acheson Report of 1988

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Showed that mortality decreased in the past 50 years but inequalities in health remained and widened in some cases

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What did the Acheson Report evaluate

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All policies likely to affect health in terms of their impact on inequalities

Give high priority to health of families with children

Government should reduce income inequalities and improve living conditions in poor households

8
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What are the three theories of causation

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  • Neomaterialist
  • Psychosocial
  • Life course
9
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What are the three aspects of life course

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Critical Period - Have greater impact at certain points in life course (childhood)
Accumulation - Hazards and their impacts add up (injuries at work)
Interactions and Pathways - Sexual abuse leads to poor partner choice leads to increased violence leads to increased alcohol use

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Where did net-materialist originate from

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The black report

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What is the neomaterialist theory of causation

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Theory that the quality of the material and things a person possesses can effect the quality of life.

Further Explanation: Combination of negative exposures and lack of resources half by individuals across a wide range of human, cultural and political-economic processes

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What is the psychosocial theory of causation

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Our sense of self-worth

13
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What three things can doctors do to close the gap of social determinants of health

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  1. Changing perspectives
  2. Changing Systems
  3. Changing Education

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