People of different class, gender, race and sexuality have different health outcomes, e.g ethnic minorities are more likely to die from COVID
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How is health and illness measured?
Data analysis from GP and hospital data, health surverys
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Issues surrounding principal sources of health data
Data protection, anonymity, Not all illness may be recorded, underlying issues may be worse than presenting issues
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Why is health and illness measured?
To consider budgets for healthcare, seeing trends and where interventions need implementing/health promotion, targeting age groups
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What is epidemiology and what do epidemiologists aim to do?
Branch of medicine which deals with incidence, distribution and possible controls of diseases and other factors relating to health, they aim to break one side of the triangle to stop diseases from spreading: who/what/where
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How is health and illness measured?
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Data analysis from GP and hospital data, health surverys
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Issues surrounding principal sources of health data
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Card 4
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Why is health and illness measured?
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Card 5
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What is epidemiology and what do epidemiologists aim to do?
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