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What are the millenium development main goal and target?
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To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Reduce those living on less than a dollar by half - Achieve full and productive employment for all (young people and woman) - Reduce by half those living in hunger |
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What is the EATWELL plate?
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Derived from food standards agency to show how much of what you eat should come from each food group
30% Fruit and veg 30% Carbs 10% Protein 10% High fat and sugar 10% Diary |
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What did the interheart study find as the biggest contributor to myocardial infarction?
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1. Lipid
2. Smoking 3. Psychosocial 4. No fruit or veg 5. Hypertension |
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How does meat consumption correlate to colon cancer risk?
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The more meat eaten, the higher the risk.
NZ - 320g - risk 42 in 100,000 Japan - 35g - risk 5 in 100,000 |
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What is the link between obesity and socioeconomic status?
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Child obesity is more prevelent in more affluent families.
Obesity prevelance in the most deprived 10% is twice that of the least deprived 10% |
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What is the pattern of obesity in the first year of school?
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A pattern of decreasing obesity prevelance throughout the first year of school has been identified by the NCMP national child measurement program.
One possible explanatioin is that the school environment is in some way healthier than pre-school/home |
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What are Dahlgren and Whitehead's main determinants starting from the inside out?
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AGE, SEX, HEREDITORY FACTORS
Individual lifestyle factors Agriculture and food production, education, living and working conditions, unemployment, water sanitation, health care, housing. General socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions |
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What are the three activities of health promotion linked by the Tannahill model?
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Prevention
Education Protection |
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How is livestock the largest producer of global emissions?
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- Deforestation to provide the farming land releases carbon dioxide that was previously stored in vegetation
- Enteric fermentation in animals digestive tract causes production of methane - Animal manure releases methane and nitrous oxide - Fossil fuels are used in the production of fertilisers which also cause release of nitrous oxide from the land |
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What does the Rose Hypothesis say?
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You save more lives by making a small change to a risk factor across a whole population than targeting only those already suffering from a condition
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What are low levels of vitamin D associated with?
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- Osteomalacia
- Type 1 and type 2 diabetes - Cardiovascular disease - Colon and breast cancer - Autoimmunity and allergies |
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What does the Barker hypothesis say?
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People who have a low birth weight are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease. There is a link between prenatal/early childhood nutrition to adult disease. There is massive potential for ill health to pass from one generation to the next
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