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What are lay beliefs based on?

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What happens to those around a person and themselves over their life course e.g. things they’ve read, TV, culture, social norm

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Why do lay beliefs have to be considered?

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Potential gaps between lay and medical concepts so same terms used have difference in understanding; impact on behaviour; impact on compliance

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What is the negative definition perception of health?

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Health equates to the absence of illness

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In which group is a negative definition perception of health more commonly seen?

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Lower SES

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What is the functional definition of health perception?

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Health is the ability to do certain things

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What group of the population commonly uses a functional definition of health perception?

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Elderly

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What is the positive definition of health perception?

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Health is a state of wellbeing and fitness that can be worked towards and maintained

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Which population group more commonly uses a positive definition of health perception?

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Higher SES

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What might happen if medical information is incompatible with competing ideas for which people believe there is good evidence?

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Info rejected or synthesis of new knowledge may be altered to fit but then it does not quite correlate with original information

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What factors impact a person’s wider social and cultural perceptions of health?

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How much control they think they can assert over their health, how much control they can assert on everyday life

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What is candidacy in lay beliefs of health?

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Identify risk factors for a disease depending on personal, familial and social sources of knowledge

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What does the ‘Uncle Norman’ explanation in lay epidemiology explain?

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Find exceptions to candidacy leading to a reliance on randomness and fate

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Why is there a general reluctance to accept an explanation for illness that rests on personal behaviours?

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Easier to believe it is out of your control

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What is a positive health behaviour?

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Activity undertaken for the purpose of maintaining health and preventing illness

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How does the positive definition of health explain why higher SES have lower rates of smoking?

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Incentives more evident for those who can expect to stay fit and healthy so quitting is a rational choice

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How does the negative perception of health explain why smoking rates are higher in lower SES?

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Incentives to quit less clear and focus on improving immediate environment and engaging in normalised behaviour so smoking is rational

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What is illness behaviour?

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Activity of an ill person to define illness and seek solution

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What is the symptom/illness iceberg?

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Explanation that most symptoms never get to a doctor as 50% of people with a symptom will not seek advice

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What factors lead to the development of the illness iceberg?

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Stoical culture, visibility/salience of S/S, disruption to life, ref quench and persistence of symptoms, lay-referral, availability of resources, information and resources, tolerance threshold

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What is sick role behaviour?

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Formal response to symptoms that includes seeking formal help and action of a person as a pt

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What is lay referral?

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Chain of advice seeking contacts sick people make with other lay people prior to OR INSTEAD of seeking help

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What inhibits help-seeking in lay referral?

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Powerful social sanctioning of hypochondriac behaviours

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What do people base the choice of when to seek medical advice on?

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Symptom experience, symptom evaluation, knowledge of disease and Tx, experience of and attitudes towards HCPs

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What are lay beliefs?

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How people understand and make sense of health and illness without specialised knowledge

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What symptom experience leads to early presentation?
Significant and rapid onset
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Why do insidious onset symptoms lead to delayed presentations?
Pt develops explanations for S/S with previous activities until this becomes inadequate
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How does the knowledge of a disease and its treatment delay presentation?
Pts has trouble interpreting symptoms, tries to self-manage, doesn't recognise variation in symptoms, is an atypical sufferer, experiences an unfamiliar outcome
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What are 'deniers' and 'distancers'?
Deniers: deny condition Distancers: deny having proper condition Both despite formal diagnosis
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How do deniers and distancers manage their condition?
Use complex strategies to hides S/S and claim they do not impact on everyday life. Don't take medication or attend clinics
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Why do 'deniers' and 'distancers' not take treatment or attend clinics?
Tx relies on accepting identity
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Describe 'accepters' when considering lay beliefs.
Accept diagnosis and Dr's advice completely, proactively control S/S with Tx as part of everyday life and without stigma
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Describe 'pragmatists' when considering lay beliefs.
Accept diagnosis but manage as a series of acute episodes, using Tx in relation to severity
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Why do 'pragmatists' not use preventative therapy?
Use Tx in relation to severity
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What is medication behaviour tied to?
Beliefs about condition, social circumstances, threat to identity
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Give some examples of determinants of health.
Culture, physical environment, socio-economic environment, mass media, behaviour and coping skills, genetics
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What does 'The Health Career' diagram show?
Individuals are unlikely to be able to directly control many of the determinants of health
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How has health promotion evolved over time?
From reforming physical environment (sanitation) to health education (individual health behaviours) to health promotion (social and political aspects)
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What is health promotion?
Process of enabling people to increase control over and improve health emphasising social and personal resources as well as physical capacities
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What are the principles of health promotion?
Empowering, participatory, holistic, intersectoral, equitable, sustainable, multi-strategy
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What are the structural critiques of health promotion?
Material conditions lead to ill health being marginalised and focus on individual responsibility leading to blame
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What are surveillance critiques of health promotion?
Concerns with increasing monitoring and regulating of the population (nanny-state)
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What are consumption critiques of health promotion?
Lifestyle choices are tied with identity construction e.g. Health promotion favours higher SES
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What are the five approaches to health promotion?
Medical/preventative, behaviour change, educational, empowerment, social change
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How can social change be used in health promotion?
Make behaviour the deviant norm e.g. Smoking ban
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What is primary prevention?
Prevent onset of disease/injury by decreasing exposure to risk factors
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Give some examples of primary prevention of disease.
Immunisation, avoid environmental risk factors, take appropriate precautions re communicable disease, decrease risk from health related behaviours
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What is secondary prevention of disease?
Detect and that disease/risk factors early to prevent progression
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Give some examples of secondary disease prevention.
Screening, mentoring and treating hypertension, statins
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What is tertiary disease prevention?
Minimising effects of an established disease
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Give some examples of tertiary disease prevention.
Maximising remaining capabilities of disabled, renal transplant, skills training in cerebral palsy
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What are the dilemmas in health promotion?
Ethics of interfering in people's lives, victim blaming, fallacy of empowerment, reinforcing of negative stereotypes, unequal distribution of responsibility, The Prevention Paradox
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What are the ethical implications of health promotion interfering in people's lives?
Increased anxiety if health promotion met by feeling of powerlessness, rights and choices impeded
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Why is victim blaming a problem in health promotion?
Focus on individual behaviour change plays down the wider SE and environmental factors
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What is 'fallacy of empowerment'?
Giving people information does not give them power and can be die powering if circumstances create constraints on choice of behaviour
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How does the fallacy of empowerment account for unhealthy lifestyles?
Due to adverse circumstances and wider SE factors, not ignorance
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What is the argument for unequal distribution of responsibility in health promotion?
Implementing healthy behaviours in family often left to women
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What is The Prevention Paradox?
Interventions effective at population level might not have much effect on an individual
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How is The Prevention Paradox linked with lay beliefs?
If people don't see themselves as a candidate they may not respond to health promotion messages, especially if they have an awareness of anomalies/randomness of disease
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Why is evaluation of health promotion necessary?
To provide evidence base, accountability and as an ethical obligation to ensure no direct/indirect harm and allow for management and development of programme
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What different methods of evaluation can be used for health promotion?
Process/formative/illuminative; impact; outcome
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How do process/formative/illuminative evaluations of health promotion work?
Wide range of mainly qualitative methods assess how intervention is being put into place
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How does measuring impact evaluate health promotion?
Assesses immediate effects of intervention
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How does measuring outcome evaluate health promotion?
Measures long-term consequences to see what is achieved by intervention
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How does timing influence evaluation of health promotion by outcome?
Delay: some interventions take a long time to act. Decay: some interventions wear off rapidly
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What are the difficulties in evaluating health promotion?
Intervention design e.g. Multi-strategy, possible lag time, potential confounders, high financial cost due to timescale

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