Health Promotion/ Screening

Question 1

What are the 5 approaches to health

Answer 1

Social ChangeEducationalBehaviouralEmpowermentBiomedical

Question 2

What are the 3 Prevention Strategies

Answer 2

PrimarySecondaryTertiary

Question 3

What is Primary Prevention?

Answer 3

Prevents the onset of a disease by removing risk factor| Healthy Diets & Immunisations

Question 4

What is Secondary Prevention?

Answer 4

Reducing the impact of a disease in at risk people| Screening tests

Question 5

What is Tertiary Prevention?

Answer 5

Reduction/Prevention of health deterioration once disease occurs| Management of symptoms, monitoring complications

Question 6

What is Screening?| What is a Diagnostic test?

Answer 6

Screening is examining healthy people to detect precursors of disease to prevent| Used to diagnose presecne or abscence of a disease if signs present

Question 7

The time between possible screening detection and detection after symptoms is called the……………. stage

Answer 7

Detectable Preclinical Stage

Question 8

What are the benefits of Screening?

Answer 8

• Early Diagnosis* Better Prognosis* Identify high risk people

Question 9

Examples of Screening tests……

Answer 9

• Mammography- Breast Cancer* Pap Smears- Cervical Cancer* Fasting BM- Diabetes

Question 10

What are the approaches to screening

Answer 10

• Mass- Whole age/gender population* Targeted- Select at risk groups* Systematic- Using register* Opportunistic- if make contact for other issue

Question 11

What makes a good Screening Test?

Answer 11

• Cheap* Easy to carry out* Minimal discomfort* Consistently reliable* Separetes diseased from Non-diseased

Question 12

What is Sensitivity| What is Specificity?

Answer 12

Ability of a test to identify correctly those with disease| Ability of a test to identify those without disease

Question 13

What is Specificity| What is Sensitivity

Answer 13

Ability of a test to identify those without disease| Ability of a test to identify correctly those with disease

Question 14

How is Sensitivity calculated?

Answer 14

True Pos/(True pos+False negative)

Question 15

How is Sensitivity calculated?

Answer 15

True Neg/(True Negative+False Pos)

Question 16

How is Positive Predictive Value calculated| How is Negative Predictive Value calculated

Answer 16

True Pos/(True Pos+False Pos)| True Neg/(True Neg+False Neg)

Question 17

How is Negative Predictive Value calculated| How is Positive Predictive Value calculated

Answer 17

True Neg/(True Neg+False Neg)| True Pos/(True Pos+False Pos)

Question 18

What are the downsides to Screening?

Answer 18

False Positives False Negatives