Population Health Chapter 5 Exam
1. fundamental pillar of population health science: causal thinking
2. health is not the absence of disease. health can be proactively promoted,
potentiated, and produced: WHO
3. what are the two concepts central to our understanding of the health of
populations?: 1. causes of events as those factors necessary for the event to occur when and how it did
2. production of health
4. what informs the production of health in population?: conceptual frameworks
5. what are the two frameworks perspectives to guide us?: social ecological and life course
perspective
6. our health is produced through variety of levels : individual to family members
and friends, neighbors, cities, countries
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, - examines how health is produced at multiple levels: social ecological perspective
7. - at the heart of social ecological framework
- disease happens in individual - who is healthy
1. we start with ourselves
2. then we expand outward to encompass others: social ecological : individual behavior
8. - most individuals are intimately embedded - starting with family or house-
hold
- families frequently reside in neighborhoods where children and youth go to
the local schools: social ecological : family/social networks
9. - clusters of neighborhoods comprise towns/cities
- cities benefit from efficiencies and economies of shared gov. and services: social
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1. fundamental pillar of population health science: causal thinking
2. health is not the absence of disease. health can be proactively promoted,
potentiated, and produced: WHO
3. what are the two concepts central to our understanding of the health of
populations?: 1. causes of events as those factors necessary for the event to occur when and how it did
2. production of health
4. what informs the production of health in population?: conceptual frameworks
5. what are the two frameworks perspectives to guide us?: social ecological and life course
perspective
6. our health is produced through variety of levels : individual to family members
and friends, neighbors, cities, countries
1/2
, - examines how health is produced at multiple levels: social ecological perspective
7. - at the heart of social ecological framework
- disease happens in individual - who is healthy
1. we start with ourselves
2. then we expand outward to encompass others: social ecological : individual behavior
8. - most individuals are intimately embedded - starting with family or house-
hold
- families frequently reside in neighborhoods where children and youth go to
the local schools: social ecological : family/social networks
9. - clusters of neighborhoods comprise towns/cities
- cities benefit from efficiencies and economies of shared gov. and services: social
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