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Cases of new events?

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Incidence

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Prevention programmes effectiveness can be detected using?

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Incidence rates

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What type of value is prevalance?

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Proportion not rate

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What type of value in incidence?

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Rate of cases per person per year

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Limits of incidence?

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Doesn’t show you the burden in community

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IR and mortality rates enable…?

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Comparison of different pop to see if individuals are at higher risk, despite difference to the pops and length of observation

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What are prevalence rates needed for?

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Need for services in community or population

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What is point prevalence?

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sufferer / # at risk

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Does prevalence have a time element?

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No

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Systematic variation?

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See the risk between people in order to work out causes of disease to help prevent and treat

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IRR equation?

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Rate (exposed) /Rate (unexposed)

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Uses of IRR?

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Compare 2 groups of different exposure levels to determine causality

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How would an IRR indicate that an exposure is linked to disease?

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Number is greater than 1.

Rate exposed > unexposed

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MRR?

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Mortality Rate Ratio is Rate A/Rate B

Determines effectiveness of treatments

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Absolute risk shown by?

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Rate

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Relative risk shown by?

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Ratio - no units

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Why is point prevalance important?

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See how many people at risk. Can plan resources

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Nuisance variation?

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Counfounders.
Variation that can be determinants of health hence hide the true causal effects.

Age and sex are strong cofounders as older people usually have higher rates.

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Why is age a bad thing when it comes to con founders?

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Age is non-modifiable hence a serious confounded and gets in the way of useful, modifiable characteristics

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How are cofounders adjusted for?

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Age-sex standardisation

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What is Age-Sex standardised mortality rate?

SMR

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Adjustments used by comparing the level of mortality observed / expected

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Define census?

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Simultaneous collection of demographic data by government at a particular time to all persons living in a particular territory

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Census are used for?

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Population
Health
Transport
Housing
Employment
Ethnic groups
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How’s does the census affect NHS?

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Allows to plan and allocate services effectively,

ie lots of potential mothers hence make more nurseries

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How does census affect health?
Age and socio-economical background can predict long term general health
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Employment?
Government may need to increase jobs and training
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Transport?
Pressures on public transport, number of cars, road planning
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Ethnic groups?
To determine in different groups are receiving the adjustments they require as well as success of equal opportunities
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Positives to census?
``` Includes household and people Most accurate Universal coverage Regular intervals Pop size - rates Pop structure - services Pop characteristics- deprivations, pensions ```
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Negatives to census?
May double count | Missed homeless and runaways - those with worst general health
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What happens when someone is born?
Birth notification within 36 hours and provide immunisation Registration by parents for statistical purposes
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What is the crude birth rate?
live births per thousand people in a population
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What is GFR?
``` General Fertility Rate #live births per thousand of the fertile women population aged 15-44 ```
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What is TPFR?
Total period fertility rate Sum of all fertility rates in each age group per year Hence average number of children born to a hypothetical woman in her life
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Fecundity definition?
Physical ability to reproduce
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What is fertility?
The realisation of the ability to reproduce
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SMR calculation?
(Observed #deaths / Expected #deaths) X 100 to give a RATE
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SMR > 100 means?
Excess mortality with sex and age and cofounders adjusted
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What happens when someone dies?
Certification by doctor - as Info for cause of death | Registration
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What is CDR?
``` Crude death rate #deaths / thousand ```
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IR = 0.0045 per thousand per year. Convert into per thousand p-y
0.0045 X 1000 = 45 per thousand person years
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What is ASDR?
``` Age-specific death rate #deaths/thousand in an age group ```
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With SMR, what can be assumed about the populations?
The age-sex distribution is equal
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What is health information used for?
Investigate trends - comparing rates over time, places, socio-economical groups
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What could be vary the numerator in rates?
Death classification Disease diagnosis - changes in techniques Coding errors - bridge coding hence compare new rates using old coding rules Chance Demography over time- ageing pop increase CDR
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What can vary the denominator for rates?
Population used Population defined Population count
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How can trends be interpreted?
Chance Artifactual reasons - systematic variation Real due to natural epidemiology or medical care effects
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Which birth rate is best?
GFR - better than crude but may lack resources CBR- can show affects to general population Best is TPFR as sum of current age specific fertility rate as breaks down the ages and takes it into account, whereas GFR lumps together all fertile women and CBR lumps together everyone
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What is TPFR good for?
Annual and internal comparison Pop size and age removed Most accurate
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298700 women at aged 15 had 1016 births. What is the TPFR?
TPFR is 1016/ 298700 (=really small #) at aged 15. | Hence need to calculate for all age groups from 15-44 then sum together to give total.
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What is CDR good for?
ImpCt on whole pop
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What is ASDR good for?
Comparison with age co founder removed hence better indicator. SMR most accurate
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In SMR, what is often the standard reference population?
The whole general public of UK

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