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Health behavior
Behavior of healthy people who try to maintain their health.
Symptom iceberg
The majority of the symptoms people have never get medical attention.
change in life expectancy over last 100 years
- greater improvements for women than for men
- It were greater improvements for children and young people than for elderly.
Illness behavior
behavior of a person who has reason to believe that he or she is sick
Professional socialization
Values of the professions are internalised
Detached concern
Simultaneous distance from and sensitivity towards patients.
Epidemiological transition
- period when the importance of non-communicable diseases increases.
- disease patterns profoundly change
Compression of morbidity
Means that the onset of the diseases shift toward older ages
Artifact explanation for inequalities in health argues that inequalities occur
Due to measurement error
Standardization is a technique for
for calculation age specific mortality rates.
We can measure mortality by
life expectancy
Indirect standardization
Gives a result which can be expressed as percentages
Expenditure on health care in developed countries ranges
Between 6 and 16% of GDP
In financing of modern health care systems, the ”third party” can be
the government
The ”prototypes” of health care systems, representing two polar types are
The British and the American systems
The notion of the local market in health care is
That secondary and tertiary level providers of health care are competing with each other locally
main advantage of the British health care is
fairness
Social roles
- sum of total norms attached to social situations
- A set of expectations toward behavior
Health care expenditure in most developed countries is:
Mostly publicly financed
In financing of modern health systems, the ”third party” is never
An association of drug companies.
A fund-holder general practitioner
Is required to buy services for his/her patients.
MEDICARE program is a
Governmental health insurance scheme for the elderly
In the modern industrial era mortality caused by infectious diseases declined because of
Clean drinking water supply.
In the pre-agricultural society one of the main causes of death was
injury
