18: Public Health - medical interventions in cardiovascular disease Flashcards
What are the three aspects of the epidemiologic triangle?
Agent/Vector (what causes the problem, risk factors, exposure in environment) Host (individual and group characteristics) Environment itself
A key part of reducing the risk of developing CVD is reducing the risk found in the ___.
environment
What are the three kinds of prevention?
Primary Secondary Tertiary
What is primary prevention?
Stopping a disease before it starts
What is secondary prevention?
Stopping a disease from being as bad as it could be
What is tertiary prevention?
Stopping later complications from developing as the result of a disease
Stopping a disease from being as bad as it could be
Stopping a disease before it starts
Reducing complications following disease
Match these definitions to primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
Secondary
Primary
Tertiary
What is an aneurysm?
A localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel
Can rupture and cause blood loss
What does AAA stand for?
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Scotland has a higher/lower occurrence of AAA than England.
higher
Reducing risk requires both __ (high risk) and ___ (low risk) interventions.
individual
population
