Final exam Flashcards
Health definition – Biomedical model
-Good health is the absence of disease or illness
-Problems with this definition of health
Health definition – Psychosocial model
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” – WorldHealth Organization (1946)
Public Health
“the activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy, including organized efforts to prevent, identify and counter threats to the health of the public.” Public Health Definition
Scope and Activities of public health
-Protect against environmental hazards
-Prevent injuries
-Prevent epidemics and spread of disease
-Promote and encourage healthy behaviors
-Assure the quality and accessibility of health services
-Respond to disasters and assist communities in recovery
Recognize the major agencies and players involved in ensuring public health.
-World Health Organization
-U.S Public Health Service Organization
-Wisconsin Public Health
Describe the different core functions of public health
-Assesment
-Policy development
-assurance
-research
Assesment in public health
-Monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems
-Diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in the community
Policy development in public health
-Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
-Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
-Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
Assurance in public health
-Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
-Link people to health services and assure the provision of healthcare when otherwise unavailable.
-Assure a competent public health healthcare workforce.
-Evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
research in public health
New insights and innovative solutions to health problems
HP2030: Reduce the proportion of people who can’t get prescription medicines when they need them
-Target 6.3%, at 4.7%
-Target Met
HP2030: Reduce household food insecurity and hunger
-Improving
-Target 6%, at 10.2% but it used to be worse
HP2030: Increase the proportion of state and territorial jurisdictions that have a health improvement plan
-Little to no change
-Target 86%, at 79.7%
Status of US Health
-Not in the top performing countries
-The U.S. spent $3.3 trillion on health care services in 2016, ~$10,348 per person (more per person than any other country).
-Worse Life expectancy at birth rates
-Highest health expenditure costs
-Lowest spent of social services
Primary prevention
-Prevent disease/injury before it occurs
-Prevent exposures to hazard that cause disease or injury
-Alter unhealthy/unsafe behaviors that can lead to disease or injury
Secondary prevention
Activities that take place after disease has occurred, but before the person experiences symptoms or can be transmitted to others
tertiary prevention
Targets person who already has symptoms of disease
HP2030: Maintain the elimination of measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, and polio
maintaing, o cases
HP2030: Reduce cases of pertussis among infants
Exceeding goals
Far below target and baseline goals
HP2030:Reduce the proportion of children who get no recommended vaccines by age 2 years
meeting goal
HP2030:Maintain the vaccination coverage level of 1 dose of the MMR vaccine in children by age 2 years
-below target and baseline
HP2030:Maintain the vaccination coverage level of 2 doses of the MMR vaccine for children in kindergarten
below target and baseline
HP2030:Increase the coverage level of 4 doses of the DTaP vaccine in children by age 2 years
-Improving
-Above baseline but below target goal
HP2030: Reduce the rate of hepatitis A
not meeting goals
HP2030: Reduce the rate of acute hepatitis B
-Improving
-Less than baseline but not meeting target
HP2030: Reduce the rate of deaths with hepatitis B as a cause
-Improving
-Less than baseline but not meeting target
HP2030:Increase the proportion of adolescents who get recommended doses of the HPV vaccine
Improving
Above baseline but approaching target
HP2030:Increase the proportion of adults age 19 years or older who get recommended vaccines
Developmental
No baseline data yet
HP2030: Increase the proportion of women who get the Tdap vaccine during pregnancy
Developmental
No baseline data yet
HP2030:Increase the proportion of people who get the flu vaccine every year (6 months and older)
Not meeting goals
Below baseline and target
HP2030: Decrease the percentage of children in the United States who receive 0 doses of recommended vaccines by age 19 to 35 months
Not meeting goals
Any reduction is wanted
HP2030: Increase the proportion of people with vaccination records in an information system
Developmental
No baseline data yet
strategies in place to increase vaccination rates
-shool vacination rates
-immunization information systems
-vaccines for children program
-site specific workflow strategies
patient interaction strategies
Apply the ethical principles of justice and autonomy to vaccination exemption
-Benefits: Prevent adverse effects of vaccine in the individual child, freedom to express autonomy
-Burden: Individual child is at risk of preventable infection but will be protected by herd immunity at low levels of exemption; high levels of non-medical exemptions lead to outbreak of disease in society
Explain how community pharmacies and pharmacists can overcome patient barriers to vaccination
increased access and education