1st & 2nd Year Public Health Flashcards
“Is the act good for everyone that will be affected by the act?”
Community ethics
“Integration of disease framework and illness framework - patients as partners”
Bio-Psychosocial model
The body as a “machine” does not take into account the patient themselves
Bio medical model
Whether some action is right or wrong depends upon consequences
Consequentialism
Act always to maximise the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Consequentialism
“Is the act right or wrong in itself, irrelevant of benefits for me or other or possible consequences?”
Deontology
Study of frequency, distribution and determinants of disease in population
Epidemiology
What are the components of the epidemiological triangle
Vector (food), Host, Obsogenic environment
Ability to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health
Health literacy
Number of new cases of a disease occurring in a population during a specific period of time/ number of persons exposed to risk of developing the disease during that period of time
Incidence rate
Experience of discomfort + suffering
Illness
A pathological condition within the body
Disease
Stopping a disease before it starts
Primary prevention
Does the act respect the sanctity of human life?
Religious theories
Number of cases of a disease present in a population at a specific point in time/ Number of persons at risk of having the disease at that point in time
Prevalence rate
Proportion of those who test positive who actually have the disease
Positive predictive value
Proportion of those who test negative who actually do not have the disease
Negative predictive value
What is the formula for positive predictive value?
Test true positives/Test positives
What is the formula for negative predictive value
Test true negatives/true negatives
Stopping a disease from being as bad as it could be
Secondary prevention
Proportion of those who have the disease who are correctly identified by a +ve test
Sensitivity
Proportion of those who do not have the disease who are correctly identified by a -ve test
Specificity
Stopping later complications from developing
Tertiary prevention
“am I being honest to myself and consistent in my acts?”
Virtue theory
Number of previously undiagnosed cases picked up by a screening test or programme
Yield
