7 - Public Health and Your Practice Flashcards

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What are the differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy depending on your socioeconomic status?

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What are determinants of health?

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Determinants of health are a range of factors that have a powerful and cumulative effect on the health of populations, communities and individuals

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What are the aims and approaches of Primary Prevention?

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What are the aims and approaches of secondary prevention?

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What are the aims and approaches of tertiary prevention?

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e.g vitamin B1 for alcohol dependence

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What health improvement services are public health responsible for?

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What health protection measures are public health involved in?

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What are the main differences in health between the richest and the poorest?

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How can socio-economic status be measured ?

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Deprivation is strongly associated with ill health.

Explain the relationship between these two factors

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What is the Black Report?

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Explanation for inequalities in health

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What is the artefact explanation for inequalities in health?

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What is the social selection explanation for inequalities in heatlh?

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What is the behavioural-cultural explanation for inequalities in health?

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  • Bad choices may be rational for those whose lives are constrained by lack of resources
  • Good choices may be difficult to exercise in adverse conditions
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What is the materialist explanation for inequalities in health?

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What is the leading cause of obesity?

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Poverty

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What is the psychosocial explanation for inequalities in health?

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  • Psychosocial pathways act in addition to direct effects of absolute material living standards
  • How social inequality make people feel, e.g poor social support, autonomy at work, job security
  • Impact of stress on health directly (immune system) and indirectly (health behaviours)
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What is the relationship in health between men and women?

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  • Men die quicker, women get sicker
  • Women: differences in pay, differences in family support, differences in line of work
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What is the income distribution explanation of health inequality?

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20
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What 4 things can be done to reduce inequalities?

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21
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What is the difference between inequality and inequity?

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What inequities are there in access to healthcare?

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Why can’t you trust the data about inequities in access to healthcare?

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  • Evidence is based on utilisation, difficult to interpret
  • Differences in service use based on gender and ethnicity as well as deprivation
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What are some determinants of health of a patient?

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Have to consider these when considering physical and mental symptoms of a patient

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Briefly outline the six explanations in the Black Report

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