Question

What is meant by downstream factors? What are some examples? What are upstream factors? What are some examples? Why would these factors have an impact on one's health? Why is it important to examine these factors when determine health inequity? Which do you feel is more important and why? Provide clear examples to support your beliefs.

Answer 1

What is mean by downstream facters?

_Interventions and strategies focus on providing equitable access to care and services to mitigate the negative impacts of disadvantages in health.

Examples for downstream facter

1)heart disease

2)strock

3)cancer

4) Respiratory condition

5)Obisity

What is mean by upstream facter?

_Interventions and strategies focus on improving fundamental, social and economic structures in order to decrease barriers and improve support that allow people to achieve their full health potential.

_Up dream mean to look at or toward beginning of some process or course of activity.In case of health care an upstream approach ask us to consider the socio-economic and environmental origins of health problems that manifest the population level not just the symptoms.

Examples for upstream facter

1)No quality child care

2)unsafe neibour hood

3) Unstable housing

4)poor access to transport

5)poor health care

_Why would these factors have impact on health?

These factors are help to identify the problem that in heath system.It is very important to assess these factors when determining the heath.upstream facter is more important because this focus on improving fundamental,social and economic structures,in order to prevent the barriers and to improve the health.