Healthcare Resources Flashcards
1
Q
What are the different types of need, and describe them?
A
- felt: individual perceptions of variations from normal health
- expressed: individual seeks help to overcome variation from normal health
- normative: professional defines interventions appropriate for expressed need
- comparative: comparisons between needs for severity, size, range of interventions and cost
2
Q
What is equity and explain the different types?
A
- equity is fairness
- horizontal equity: equity between people with same healthcare needs
- vertical equity: those with unequal needs who should receive different or unequal care
3
Q
What are the pressures on healthcare budgets?
A
- COVID-19
- workforce (vacancies/shortages)
- demand/targets and indicators
- medicines
- savings
- innovation
- estate
- brexit
4
Q
How has COVID affected the NHS?
A
- shifts in practice to virtual
- increase in technology solutions
- diagnosis and treatments crowded out
- operations cancelled/postponed
- over 1 billion in costs (PPE, test and trace, more beds needed)
5
Q
What are the factors which contribute to health inequalities?
A
- adverse childhood experiences
- poor health literacy
- poor understanding of risk
- poverty and debt
- obesity
- drugs and alcohol
- smoking
6
Q
What are the consequences of adverse childhood experiences?
A
- social, emotional, cognitive impairment
- adoption of health-rsik behaviours
- disease, diability, social problems
- early death
7
Q
Describe how health literacy acts as a barrier to access and engagement with healthcare
A
- will not approach health service: due to little knowledge about entitlement to service,
lack of confidence - struggles with receiving service: limited knowledge on how service works, struggles to explain needs
- services don’t tailor what they do to individual patients learning needs and styles
- struggles to engage with healthcare providers: providers unaware that patient’s will not be able to put knowledge into practice, frustration and lack of trust
