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L4. Health Issues

AS Geography. L4. Health Issues. AS Geography. L4. Health Issues. Lesson Focus: Coronary Heart Disease: Is it really a disease of affluence?. AS Geography. L4. Health Issues. Missing Word Task. AS Geography. L1. Health Issues. The biggest killer. AS Geography.

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L4. Health Issues

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  1. AS Geography L4. Health Issues

  2. AS Geography L4. Health Issues Lesson Focus: Coronary Heart Disease: Is it really a disease of affluence?

  3. AS Geography L4. Health Issues • Missing Word Task

  4. AS Geography L1. Health Issues • The biggest killer

  5. AS Geography L1. Health Issues • UK Overview • More than 2.2 million adults in England, Scotland and Wales are living with coronary heart disease • In 2007, cardiovascular disease (CVD) caused 34% of deaths in the UK • Coronary heart disease, the main from of CVD, causes over 90,000 deaths a year in the UK

  6. AS Geography L4. Health Issues • What does the graph show? • What doesn’t it show?

  7. AS Geography L1. Health Issues 1. Gender 2. Age 2006 Health Survey prevalence in England was 6.5% in men and 4.0% in women More than 1 in 3 men & around 1 in 4 women aged 75 and over living with CHD. 3. Ethnicity 4. Socio-Economic Indian / Pakistani x2, Black Caribbean and Chinese men was much lower than the general population Significant differences between deprivation categories...

  8. AS Geography L1. Health Issues • Prevalence of treated CHD by sex and deprivation category, England & Wales Office for National Statistics (2000)

  9. AS Geography L4. Health Issues 5. Regional Variations? • Describe the geographical differences between regions in England (4 marks)

  10. Describe the geographical differences between regions in England (4 marks) • Describe the geographical differences between regions in England (4 marks)

  11. AS Geography L1. Health Issues • Mark Scheme • There is some geographic variation in prevalence rates of CHD reported by the Health Survey for England 2003 (1) • Some evidence of north-south divide (1). The prevalence of CHD in men is nearly twice as high in Yorkshire and the Humber (12%) than in the South West (7%) and East (7%) of England (Max 1 for example) • For women, CHD varies more dramatically (1); only 4% of women in the South West and East of England report a doctor diagnosis of CHD compared with 10% of women in the North East (Max 1 for example)

  12. AS Geography L4. Health Issues • What is the global picture?

  13. AS Geography L4. Health Issues • Group Discussion: To what extent is CHD a disease of ‘affluence’? • Socio-economic status and CHD linked. A range of other factors are important: age, gender, ethnicity (both genetic and lifestyle), urban / rural etc • Paradox... Linked with poverty in developed countries, and the emergence of a westernised lifestyle in developing countries > LEDCs now burdened by chronic & infectious disease • Linked with development: (1) Increased migration to urban areas, increased amounts of processed foods that are high in fats, salts and sugars. (2) Physical inactivity as physical farm work is replaced by office and factory-based work. (3) Increased tobacco use

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