CPP and Human Behaviour Flashcards
What is Health Literacy?
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions
In NZ you are more likely to have low health literacy skills, if you are?
Male, older, Maori or Pacifica, live in a rural area, have English as your second language or a low level of educational qualification
What two factors is Health Literacy determined by?
1: The literacy skills and knowledge of the health consumer
2: The complexity of the literacy demands that the consumer faces
People with poor health literacy are less likely to?
Use prevention services (such as screening)
Be knowledgeable of their illness, treatment and medicines
Manage their long term/chronic condition
People with poor health literacy are more likely to?
Be hospitalised due to a chronic condition
Us emergency services
Suffer a workplace injury, because they do not understand safety precautions messages
Consequences of poor health literacy can be due to non adherence to medication treatment plans including:
Missed repeats, Inappropriate dosing or timing of medications, failure to recognise side effects or drug interactions, this lead therefore lead to?
- Increased emergency department costs
- Reduced ability to self manage conditions
- Reduced engagement with care plan/healthcare system
What can pharmacist do to help with health literacy?
- Establish rapport with customers/patients
- Be aware of signs that may indicate low health literacy
- Use the Universal Precautions Approach with all patients
- Having an awareness of the barriers faced by people with low literacy and health literacy to navigating the NZ healthcare system
- Adopt an attitude of helpfulness- willing adapt practices
- being an advocate for patients with low health literacy
What are the three steps to better health literacy?
1: Find out what people know
2: Build health literacy skills and knowledge
3: Check whether yo were clear (and if not go back to step 3)
What is the teach back technique?
It is a way of confirming that t your explanations was effective. Patient understanding is confirmed where they teach back to you.
Can be used with verbal and written material
What does a T test involve?
Comparing means between two groups
What does a ANOVA test involve?
Comparing means between one or more factors with two or more levels
What does a ANOVA test involve?
At least one categorical and one continuous factors in the model
What does a multiple line regression involve?
One or several explanatory variables, categorical or continuous
What are the legislations governing who can prescribe ?
- Medicines Act 1981 (MA)
- Medicines Regulations 1984 (MR)
