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Health and Society (Block 1-3) Flashcards

1
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Define age standardisation

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Allows populations to be compared when the age profiles of the populations are different

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What is Giemsa banding?

How does it arrange chromosomes?

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Pattern for each chromosome

Arranges chromosomes based on their p+q arms, shape and centromere

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3 examples of meiosis errors

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Unequal segregation

Chromosome non-disjunction/division

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5 examples of chromosome abnormalities

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Deletions, duplications, inversions, translocations and isochromosomes

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Define polymorphism

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2 or more phenotypes in the population of a species occupying the same habitat at the same time

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Which diagram is used to study inheritance?

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Pedigree diagrams

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7
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What are the 2 types of gene mutations

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Somatic

Germline

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What does it mean if a circle is coloured in on a pedigree diagram?

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That person is affected

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9
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4 changes to proteins that can occur due to a mutation

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Shorter
Wrong amino acid
Wrong structure
No binding/active site

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Define missense mutation

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One DNA base pair is changed resulting in a different amino acid

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11
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Define nonsense mutation

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1 DNA base pair is changed which signals the cell to stop building the protein

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12
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Define reading frame

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3 bases that code for an amino acid

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13
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Define trinucleotide

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3 base pair repeats

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14
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What do you need for cancer to be inherited?

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Many mutations

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15
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Define genetics

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Bio-medical differences between individuals which you can control and manipulate
They are linked to biology and social factors

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16
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What happens to medical decisions over time?

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They change as society changes

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17
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Define positive eugenics

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Intervention to humans to improve the genetic inheritance of a child/community

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Define negative eugenics

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If you are of a lower socio-economic status then you have worse inheritance

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19
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What did Francis Galton believe?

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That fitter people should breed together to produce the ‘perfect species’

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20
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What was the eugenics society in the UK?

When was it created?

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Explained social status by biology

1907

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21
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When was DNA discovered?

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1953

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22
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When was recombinant DNA discovered?

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1973

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23
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When did the Human Genome Project start?

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1990

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24
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What does polygenic mean?

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Many genes have multi-factorial causes

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25
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What type of medicine is becoming more popular?

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Personalised medicine

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26
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Define evidence

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An observation, fact or organised body of information that helps to decrease uncertainty

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27
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Define decision making

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A choice or action made to achieve goals

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28
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What are the 3 types of uncertainties that doctors face?

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Technical
Personal
Conceptual

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29
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Give an example of a technical uncertainty

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Wrong diagnosis

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30
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Give an example of a personal uncertainty

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Not know what the patient wants

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31
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Give an example of a conceptual uncertainty

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Unable to apply the knowledge to the patient

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32
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What is the purpose of a ‘cumulative meta-analysis’

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Combines the research together so that time and money is not wasted if the information is already there

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33
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2 ways in which evidence improves clinical care

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Increases efficiency

Standardising treatments

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34
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Define evidence-based decision making

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The use of the current best evidence to make decisions about the care and value of patients so that uncertainty is reduced

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35
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What 4 things does evidence-based practise rely upon?

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Research, resources, patient preferences, expertise

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36
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What are the CQC

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Care and quality commission

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37
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Define economics

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How people choose to allocate scarce resources

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38
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Define opportunity cost

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The value of what you give up when you have to make a decision

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39
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2 examples of sellers in the NHS market

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GP’s

Hospitals

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40
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Explain the flat curve of medicine

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NHS first established: Little we could do but effective

NHS now: A lot we can do but not as effective

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41
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Describe the NHS in one word

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Inefficient

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42
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Define epidemiology

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Distribution and determinants of a populations health

Applying this to control the health of the population

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43
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Define descriptive epidemiology

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How things are distributed in patterns across society

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44
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Define analytical epidemiology

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Exploits the distributions to ask and answer questions

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45
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Define experimental epidemiology

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Change the distributions to see the effect

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46
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Define incidence

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New diagnosis and immigration of the ill

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47
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Define prevalence

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Number of individuals who have the disease

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48
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What is the equation for incidence?

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Number of new cases in a period / Number initially free of disease

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49
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What is the equation for prevalence?

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Number with the disease at a specific time/ Total population

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50
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3 ways to express the answer to incidence/prevalence

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Percentage
Decimal
Number affected per number sampled

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51
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What word describes cumulative incidence?

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Rate

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52
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What is the difference in the trend between the whole population and smaller populations?

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They differ

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53
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What is another word for incidence rates?

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Person-time incidence rates

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54
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What do symptoms not always lead to?

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Help seeking behaviour

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55
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Do lay people have medical knowledge.

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Yes

56
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What are the 5 levels in the symptom iceberg?

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Controlled - Diagnosed - Un/mis-diagnosed - Risk factors - Free of risk factors

57
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Define medical pluralism

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Conventional and traditional medicine

58
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What is the lay-referral system?

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Patients seek help from 3 sources before the doctor

59
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Define industrial

Which world did it happen in?

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Encourage people to seek help

Happened in the ‘old world’

60
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Define information

Which world did it happen in?

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Encourage people to self-care to save time and money

Happens in the new world as patients have the same information as doctors and don’t want to waste their time

61
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What is the inverse case law?

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Increased deprivation in an area decreases the number of services which are available

62
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What were the classes in the 1900’s?

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Gentry and professional
Farmers and tradesmen
Artisans and labourers

63
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What were the new classes?

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Professional
Managerial and technical
Skilled
Partly-skilled
Unskilled
64
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Who made and commissioned the black report?

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Made: Labour
Commissioned: Conservative

65
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What are the 4 parts of the black report?

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Statistical artefact
Culture
Health related social mobility
Materialist

66
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What does statistical artefact mean in the back report?

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Inequalities are artificial due to inadequate data

67
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What does statistical culture mean in the back report?

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Ill health is caused by lifestyle but behaviour is still shaped by circumstance

68
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What does health related social mobility mean in the back report?

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Health determines social class

69
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What does materialist mean in the back report?

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Health is determined by social structure and circumstances

These influence material conditions

70
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What are the two reports which followed the black report?

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Acheson report (1998)
Marmot review (2010)
71
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What is a guarantee against ill health?

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Employment

72
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What 3 things can eliminate health inequalities?

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Social accumulation, mobility and protection

73
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What is the difference between behaviour and physiological status?

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Behaviour: Current social context

Physiological status: Past and present

74
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What 3 things contribute towards your health?

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Position in society, material conditions and behaviour

75
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How many methods do you use to measure health inequalities at once?
Why?

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More than one

Increases the accuracy

76
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What are the layers in the model of health inequalities?

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  • Constitutional factors
  • Individual lifestyle factors
  • Social and community networks
  • Living and working conditions
  • General socio-economic, cultural and environmental factors
77
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What does the multiple index measure? (7)

How many areas in England are there?

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Crime, education, employment, environment, health, housing and income
32,844

78
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Give 5 measures of current income

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Area of residence 
Education
Employment
Housing tenure 
Social class
79
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How do you measure housing?

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By the three-fold classification

-Owner, rental or council tenant

80
Q

What is area deprivation an example of?

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An example of a way to measure health inequalities

81
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Where are most resources in healthcare directed?

Where should they be directed?

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Treatment

Prevention

82
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What is the ‘epidemiological transition’

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A decrease in infectious disease

An increase in chronic and non-infectious disease

83
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6 determinants of health outcomes

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Biological
Social and economic
Environment
Lifestyle
Health services
Material deprivation and poverty
84
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What did the Whitehall study determine?

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That the social class gradient leads to disease

85
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Define health promotion

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People improve their own health through a range of social interactions

86
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Define health education

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A voluntary change in behaviour through improvement of knowledge

87
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Define health protection

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Legislation to protect public health

88
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What are the WHO’s 5 aspects of health promotion?

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  1. Healthy public policy
  2. Supportive environments
  3. Community action
  4. Personal skills
  5. Re-orientating health services (downstream –> upstream)
89
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What are the differences between primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
Examples

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Primary: Prevents onset (e.g. vaccination, health promotion)
Secondary: Detecting at early stages (e.g. screening)
Tertiary: Overlaps with treatment to decrease the impact

90
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Define authoritative intervention

A

Medical professionals or governments inform people

91
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Define negotiated intervention

A

Experience and knowledge

92
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Define health persuasion

Example

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Professionals tell people

5-a-day

93
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Define personal counselling

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Advice to patients

94
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Define community development

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Community work for local needs

95
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Define prevention paradox

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Benefits to the population rarely benefit the individual person

96
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4 problems with the idea of health promotion

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Lack of balance between freedom of individual and societal control
Limited resources
No clear evidence
Who is responsible?

97
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Define diagnosis

A

Determining the nature of the disorder by looking at the patient’s signs, symptoms, background and tests

98
Q

What 2 things is the prognosis based upon?

A

Knowledge of past patients

Type of patient

99
Q

What are the 3 theories of decision making?

Define them

A

Normative: Social and professional norms
Prescriptive: Improvement
Descriptive: What YOU are doing

100
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What 3 things are decisions influenced by?

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Bias
Individual variation
Experience

101
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What are the 5 stages of the Hypothetic-Deductive model?

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  1. Cue acquisition
  2. Hypothesis formation
  3. Cue interpretation
  4. Hypothesis evaluation
  5. You then accept the hypothesis or make a new one
102
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What does the Hypothetic-Deductive mode aim to do?

When is it used?

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Seeks evidence to disprove

When the clinician is less experienced

103
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How are decisions made?

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By looking at theories

104
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What are the two phases of making a decision?

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Phase 1: Framing and editing (preliminary analysis)

Phase 2: Evaluation (framed prospects evaluated)

105
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Define evidence

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A factor that influences clinical decisions

Based on the results of clinical trials and studies

106
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Rank these in order of the hierarchy of evidence:

Case series - Randomised controlled double blind - Case control studies - Opinions - Case reports - Systemic reviews - In vitro - Animal - Cohort studies

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In vitro - Animal - Opinions - Case reports - Case series - Case control studies - Cohort studies - Randomised controlled double blind - Systemic reviews

107
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What are the 5S levels of organisation of evidence?

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Studies - Syntheses - Synopses - Summaries - Systems

108
Q

What is the purpose of the 5S levels of organisation of evidence?

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To deal with the volume of evidence

109
Q

4 examples of research which can be used in a clinical setting?

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Statistics, knowledge, experience and research

110
Q

What are the two acts surrounding drugs?

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Human regulation act of 2012

Medicines act of 1968

111
Q

What agency gathers the yellow cards?

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Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

112
Q

What can herbal medication affect in the body aside from other drug interactions

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Certain enzymes in the liver and other bodily functions

113
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What is the role of the MHRA?

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To give drugs a ‘market authorisation’

114
Q

What is the EMC and what does it have?

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Electronic Medicines Compendium

A summary of the product characteristcs

115
Q

4 characteristics to be re-classified from a POM to P?

A

No danger to health
Used correctly
Not an injection
Not have products which need investigating

116
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2 characteristics to be re-classified from a P to a GSL?

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Sold/supplied safely with no pharmacist

May need age limits

117
Q

What is the scale of community pharmacy schemes?

A

Local or national

118
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What are the 4 main roles of a community pharmacy?

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Minor ailments
Emergency contraception/sexual health
Health education and promotion
Medicine reviews if another drug has been prescribed

119
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What are the 2 types of outcome variables?

A

Quantitative and Qualitative

120
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Define dichotomous

A

Only 2 categories

121
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What are the 3 types of data?

A

Interval
Ordinal
Nominal

122
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3 words to describe interval data

Example

A

Quantitative, discrete and continuous

E.g. Number of admissions

123
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2 words to describe ordinal data

Example

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Qualitative, more than 2 categories with some order

E.g. Excellent, Good, Bad, Poor

124
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3 words to describe nominal data

Example

A

Qualitative, multinominal, more than 2 categories with no order
E.g. divorced/married

125
Q

What are the three approaches to statistical analysis?

Define them

A

Descriptive: Organise, summarise and describe data
Correlational: Relationships
Inferential : Stats

126
Q

What makes statistics valid?

A

If they follow the normal distribution

127
Q

3 words to describe a normal distribution

A

Continuous, symmetrical and unimodal

128
Q

What happens to the mode, median and mean in a normal distribution?

A

They are the SAME

129
Q

What is negative skew?

Is the mode or mean left of the median?

A

Skewed to + values

Mean is left of median

130
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What is positive skew?

Is the mode or mean left of the median?

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Skewed to - values

Mode is left of median

131
Q

Where do the observations lie in a normal distribution?

A

68% of observations lie within 1 SD from the mean

95% of observations lie within 1.98 SD from the mean

132
Q

What are the 3 measures of location?

A

Mean, mode and median

133
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What are the 3 measures of dispersion?

A

Standard deviation
Inter-quartile range
Range

134
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What is the statistically significant P value?

A

0.05

135
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What is the difference between a type 1 and type 2 error?

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Type 1: Reject null hypothesis by mistake

Type 2: Accept null hypothesis by mistake

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