I+P Flashcards
What are the 8 steps of the intervention ladder?
- Do nothing.
- Provide information.
- Enable choice.
- Guide choice through changing default policy.
- Guide choice through incentives.
- Guide choice through disincentives.
- Restrict choice.
- Eliminate choice.
When are intrusive public health efforts justified? (7).
When is it evidenced. Publicly supported. Proportionate. Pros > cons. Those impacted will benefit. There are no alternatives. It is specifically focused.
Differentiate between birth rate and fertility rate.
Birth rate: births per whole population (M+W)
Fertility rate: births per women of childbearing age.
Why has life expectancy increased in developed countries?
Decreased mortality rate due to increased sanitation.
Differentiate between period and cohort life expectancy.
Period: using age-specific mortality rates for that time period throughout their life.
Cohort: using known/projected mortality rates as the years change (more appropriate).
What do rapid, slow and a decrease in growth look like on a population pyramid?
Rapid: mohican
Slow: empire state building
Decrease: narrowing base
In the US population pyramid what does the narrowing at 25-39 show? 5-24yrs?
25-39: low birth rate during great depression
5-24: baby boom after war
What is the rate of natural increase?
Difference between the birth rate and the death rate.
What are the four stages of classical demographic transition?
- high birth and death rate.
- decreased death rate (growth).
- decreased birth rate (slower growth).
- population stabilises.
What is the normal sex ratio at birth?
106 males to 100 females
Differentiate between a necessary and sufficient cause
Necessary: presence required for occurrence.
Sufficient: presence leads to effect (both exposures may induce same outcome).
How much of the health variance can be explained by individuals?
25%
What are the layers of Maslow’s hierarchy of need? (5).
Physiological. Safety. Love/belonging. Esteem. Self-actualisation.
What are the four different types of need as explained by Bradshaw?
Normative - seat by norm
Comparative - compared to others
Felt - from people who have it
Expressed - need they say they have
Which three factors are considered in a health needs assessment?
Need - research, culture, genes, lifestyle
Supply - public/ political pressure, inertia, momentum
Demand - media, medical/ social/ cultural/ educational influences
What is a health needs assessment?
Systematic method for reviewing the health issues facing a population, leading to agreed priorities and resource allocation that will improve and reduce inequalities, including an assessment of effectiveness and priority setting.
Pros and cons of anecdote and case series.
Pros: quick, easy, unobserved conditions, new potential risk factors
Cons: can’t test a hypothesis, observer bias, no causal inferences
What can a cross sectional survery provide?
Prevalence.
Pros and cons of cross-sectional surveys.
Pros: quick, good prevalence estimate
Cons: one point in time, no incidence, sampling frame bias
Pros and cons of ecological studies.
Pros: inexpensive, less participation bias, routinely collected data, provides new hypotheses and risk factors
Cons: ecological fallacy (pop->ind?), assumes average risk and incidence applies to everyone, data collection varies
Pros and cons of case control studies.
Pros: quick, good for rare occurrences
Cons: selection, participation and recall bias; finding control groups
What is the best type of observational study?
A cohort study.
Pros and cons of cohort studies.
Pros: good for rarities, multiple outcomes, reduces info/survivor bias, direct incidence measurement
Cons: bad for rarities, expensive, slow, loss to follow-up
Pros and cons of a randomised controlled trial.
Pros: strongest causal evidence, selection and confounding bias removed, less observer bias
Cons: not real life, high cost, unethical and inappropriate
Define error:
The difference between an estimated/measured value and the true value.
Define bias:
Systematic, non-random deviation of results and inferences from the truth, or processes leading to such deviation.
What is diagnostic bias?
When diagnosis is made based upon the exposure.
Name three types of information bias:
Recall bias.
Interviewer bias.
Surrogate bias.
Differentiate between primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
- preventing onset of disease
- halting progression once started
- limiting disability and complication in established disease
Differentiate between a high risk and a population approach.
High risk: identify and treat the top end of the population.
Population: shift the mean of the entire population to the left.
What is social capital?
Networks together with shared norms, understandings and values that facilitate co-operation within or among groups.
Define sensitivity.
The proportion of people with the disease who get a positive test result.
Define specificity.
The proportion of people without the disease who get a negative test result.
Define positive predictive value.
The probability that a person with a positive test result actually has the disease.
Define negative predictive value.
The probability that a person with a negative test result does not actually have the disease.
When is a test with high sensitivity desirable? (2).
Adverse consequences of a missed diagnosis for the individual or society.
Diagnosis is quickly confirmed by other tests (or before treatment is started
When is a test high specificity desirable?
Diagnosis is associated with anxiety/stigma. Further investigations are time-consuming, painful or expensive. Cases will be detected anyway later. Treatment is offered without further investigation.
What is lead time bias?
Early diagnosis falsely appears to prolong diagnosis.
What is length time bias?
Screening over-represents less aggressive disease.
What are the wilson and jungner criteria for screening programs? (9).
Condition should be important. Acceptable treatment. Facilities for diagnosis and treatment. Latent stage. Natural history understood. A suitable test which is acceptable. Agreed policy on whom to treat. Cost-effective. Case finding should be continuous.
Define health promotion.
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.
What are the core themes of the ottawa charter for health promotion? (4).
Strengthen community action.
Develop personal skills.
Create supportive environments.
Reorient health services.
What are the five approaches to health promotion?
Medical or preventative. Behaviour change. Educational. Empowerment. Social change.
Disadvantages of the medical approach to health promotion: (3)
Paternalistic approach led by experts.
Based on medical definition of health (absence of disease or infirmity).
Ignores social determinants of health.
Disadvantages of the behavioural approach to health promotion:
Success dependant on individual.
Ignores social determinants of health.
Disadvantages of the educational approach to health promotion: (2)
Relies on individuals to make right choice.
Little on the social determinants of health.
What is the empowerment approach to health promotion?
Enhancing the capacity of individuals/populations to identify and address their concerns.
What is the social change approach to health promotion?
Change the physical and social environment, leading to healthier choices. Needs public and political support. E.g. smoking band, school food standards.
Name 5 health promotion intervention planning models:
Precede proceed. Strategic rational PM. SMART. CD Cynergy. MATCH.
What are the precede evaluation takes in the precede proceed model? (4).
Social assessment.
Epidemiological assessment.
Educational and ecological assessment.
Administrative and policy assessment and intervention alignment.
What are the proceed asks in the precede proceed model? (4).
Implementation.
Process evaluation.
Impact evaluation.
Outcome evaluation.
Differentiate between marketing, social marketing and the social norms approach:
Marketing: aims to increase sales.
Social marketing: used to address lack of knowledge.
Social norms: address misperceptions of the norm.
What are the steps involved in the social norms approach? (4)
Understand the norm.
Understand what people believe is the norm.
Evidence of misperception.
Challenge misperception.
How do social norms work?
False social norm beliefs encourage the perceived behaviour.
What are the characteristics of the social norms approach? (3)
Doesn’t use health terrorism.
A participatory process.
Not moralistic in tone.
Give some examples of the social norms approach being used.
Unitcheck - Leeds alcohol.
Pinterfields - 99% smoke free entrances.
Smoke free homes across yorkshire.
What are the challenges of the social norms approach? (2)
Differentiating pure social norms approach interventions from complex interventions.
Successful integration with more complex interventions.
Why is qualitative data collection used?
Gain an understanding of the target population’s behaviours/ attitudes/ experiences - the why and how.
How is the data qualitative research produces different from quantitative research?
It is unique and non-generalisable.
What is a ‘theme’ in qualitative research?
Recurrent and distinctive features that characterise particular perception/experiences and are relevant to the research.
How are themes identified in qualitative research?
Immersing in the data. Coding transcripts until data saturation. Organising codes into meaningful groups. Generating themes.