Disease Prevention - Intervention Flashcards
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Disease prevention
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- Reduce or eliminate exposure to risks that might increase the chances that an individual or group will incur disease, disability, or premature death
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Risk factors for disease
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- Some can be amendable to change such as family habits
- Others cannot that are genetic
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Why is disease prevention important?
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- Chronic diseases could be preventable with lifestyle changes focus on prevention of conditions
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Obesity
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- Poor diet linked to type 2 diabetes due to high blood pressure high cholesterol
- Increased risk of cancers respiratory musculoskeletal liver disease
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Alcohol
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- Alcohol related deaths high in deprived
- cost £1 billion of harm
- Emotional and relationship problems
- violence self harm and alcohol poisoning
- Liver diseases
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UK guidence
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- Spread across the week 14 units
- Advise don’t drink safe for baby
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Smoking
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- Occupational smoking 1 in 4 chance compared to profession job
- Doubles heart attacks and causes lung cancers and COPD
- Premature aging
- circulation and fertility
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Community pharmacy
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- Trusted health and wellbeing hubs
- Patient facing roles offering privacy
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Pharmacists roles
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- Public awareness campaigns providing leaflets
- Oppertunistics
- Delivering advanced services such as stopping smoking
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Antibiotic stewardship
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- Getting public appropriate care by giving antibiotics when required checklist
- reason why your having antibiotic allergies and risk factors
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Antimicrobial resistance
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- Global health threat that antibiotics becomes resistant
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MECC (Making Every Contact Count)
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- Open question supportive and signposing diffrent conditions
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3 approches to health chat
Ask
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Individuals about their lifestyle and changes they may wish to make, when there is an appropriate opportunity to do so
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3 approches to health chat
Advise
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appropriately on the lifestyle issue/s once raised
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3 approches to health chat
Act
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Offering information, signposting or referring individuals to the support they need.
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Oppertunties
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- Nicotine-stained fingers are observed, the purchase of a smokers toothpaste or repeated requests for cough remedies
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Motivating facts for oppertunistic contacts
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- Taste regains after 3 days higher energy level and enable increase length of life
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Vaccinations
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- Risk of vaccination small compared to risk of getting disease themselves
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Vaccine efficacy
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- Polo elimination from vacinnation
- Misinformation on measles causing hesistancy
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Green book
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- Information on vaccine
- Chronic diseases and over 65
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Sore Throat Test and Treat
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- Reduce pressure on GP
- Run through clinical checklist scoring tools swabs
- Strep A bacterial
