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Day 2 Session 1 Flashcards

Strategies to improve public health

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What are two types of interventions that can save lives?

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  • social

- medical (prevention)

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What are the three domains of public health?

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  • health protection
  • health improvement
  • health & social care quality
  • > with overlap
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What is an example of health protection?

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  • clean, air, water, food
  • communicable disease
  • disaster preparedness
  • injury control
  • environmental health hazards
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What is an example of health improvement?

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  • reducing inequalities
  • harm minimization
  • education
  • research, audit & evaluation
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What is an example of health & social care quality?

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  • health system policy & planning
  • legislation & regulation
  • efficiency
  • evidence-based healthcare
  • quality & standards
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What is health?

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Is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity

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What is disease, illness & sickness?

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  • Disease: is a physiological/psychological dysfunction
  • Illness - is a subjective state of the person who feels aware of not being well
  • Sickness - is a state of social dysfunction
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What are 7 domain of health?

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  • longevity
  • activity
  • comfort (subjective)
  • satisfaction
  • disease
  • achievement
  • resilience
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What are the four main points of the natural history of disease?

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  • Induction
  • Latency (delay)
  • Pre-clinical (diagnostic)
  • Clinical
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What is primary prevention?

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  • stops induction eg lifestyle & spread

- most preventions

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What is secondary prevention?

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  • disease has started & aim to prevent further spread eg screening & surgery
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What is tertiary prevention?

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  • event has occurred but can prevent it getting worse
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What are the two main approaches to prevention?

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  • Target high risk

- Move whole population

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What causes disease?

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Each child develops and tests an inventory of causal explanations that brings meaning to the events that are perceived and ultimately leads to increasing power to control those events.
- uses trail & error

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What is the definition of cause of a disease?

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  • antecedent event, condition or characteristics that was necessary for the occurrence of the disease at the moment it occurred, given that other conditions are fixed
  • > component causes
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What is a sufficient cause?

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  • a set of minimal conditions and events that will produce a disease (a complete set of component causes)
  • often all these factors are not known -> when this is the case be assign the average risk of getting the disease to everyone (although this may be very different)
  • may not always be the same components needed
  • when there is a consistent component it is referred to as the necessary component
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What is interaction among causes?

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  • Biological interaction is the participation of two component cases in the same sufficient cause
  • does not have to be simultaneous

eg head injury leading to a balance issues leading to a fall 5 years later

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What are some examples of health protection?

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Clean air, water, food
Communicable disease surveillance & control
Fire, radiation, chemical, poison protection
Disaster preparedness
Environmental health hazards
Injury control
Prevent war, nuclear weapons, social disorders

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What are some strategies to control communicable disease?

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  • surveillance (allows early response)
  • response to outbreaks
  • vaccines
  • emergency planning
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What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

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Epidemic is wide spread, while a pandemic is global

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What is the purpose of screening?

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To identify people at increased risk of a condition so that prevention intervention can be offered early enough in the natural history of the condition to prevent it’s progression

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What are some limitations to screening?

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  • Have to have the effective intervention established
  • Needs to have sufficient accuracy (& produce few false positives & negatives)
  • Just because you have a test doesn’t mean that it will be effective
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What needs to be considered when evaluating screening?

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Take into account: benefits, harms & cost-effectiveness

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What are some examples of screening used today?

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  • prenatal
  • mammography
  • cervical cancer
  • correctional cancer
  • prostate cancer
  • Chlamydia
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What are the main features of chronic Illness Care?

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  • Secondary prevention is an important part of the population health framework, focused particularly on primary healthcare
  • Community-­‐based care models involving GPs, allied
    health professionals, pharmacists, podiatrists, and many
    others
  • Increasingly, hospitals are recognising their role in prevention simply because they cannot cope with the
    inexorable and constant increases in patient numbers.
    -Nation health scheme remuneration that recognises the preventative care role is increasingly being used to focus efforts in this direction
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What is Health Improvement?

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  • Improving & promoting health
  • Reducing Inequalities
  • Harm minimisation
    Tackling broader determinants (eg employment)
  • Family/community health
  • Education
  • Lifestyle/health education
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What is harm reduction?

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Strategies for reducing the physical and social harms associated with inherently risky behaviours
- without abolishing the behaviour
eg Alcohol

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What are the features of health promotion?

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  • A system for intelligence gathering
  • Clear policy, legislation & regulation
  • Communication of information
  • Provision of primary services
  • Sharing responsibility across sectors
  • Mobilization of communities
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What are the four steps in communication strategy? And the order?

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Beliefs> Attitudes > intentions > behaviour

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What do the five Es of injury control stand for?

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  • Education
  • Engineering (eg seatbelts)
  • Enforcement (eg random breath tests)
  • Eradication (eg poisons)
  • Exposure reduction (eg smaller pill bottles)
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What is important to focus on when setting approaches?

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Use of standards, laws and regulation, work practices, professional development as a means to promote health and well-being

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Are health inequalities strongly associated with socio-economic inequalities?

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Yes

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What is the Best Start program in Victoria?

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Provides better access to child and family support, health services and early education

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What are health and social care qualities?

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  • health systems policy & planning
  • legislation and regulation
  • quality and standards
  • evidence-based health care
  • clinical governance
  • efficiency
  • research, audit & evaluation

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