Long term conditions

Question 1

What does biographical disruption mean?

Answer 1

Describes a significany and life changing event that alters life plans and direction.

Question 2

What are the 6 factors which influence a person’s ability to tolerate the burden of treatment?

Answer 2

Personal attributes and skills
Physical and cognivitive abilities
Support netwrok
Financial status
Life workload
Enviroment

Question 3

What is the WHO definition of diability?

Answer 3

An umbrella term for impairment, activity, limitations and participation restrictions. It is the interaction between individuals with a health contidition and personal and enviromental factors.

Question 4

What is the medical model of disability?

Answer 4

Disability is a feature of the person, directly caused by the disease, trauma or other health condition, which requires medical care provided in the form of individual treatment by professionals. Disability calls for medical or other treatment or intervention to ‘correct’ the problem with the individual.

Question 5

What is the social model of disability?

Answer 5

Disability is a socially created problem and not at all an attribute of an individual. In this model, disability demands a political response, since the problem is created by an unaccommodating physical environment brought about by attitudes and other features of the social environment.

Question 6

What are protected charateristics in the Equality act 2010?

Answer 6

Age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion, belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Question 7

Screening definition

Answer 7

“the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations, or other procedures which can be applied rapidly. Screening tests sort out apparently well persons who probably have a disease from those who probably do not. A screening test is not intended to be diagnostic. Persons with positive or suspicious findings must be referred to their physicians for diagnosis and necessary treatment.”

Question 8

What are the Wilson and Jungner Screening criteria?

Answer 8

The condition sought should be an important health problem.

The natural history of the condition, including development from latent to declared disease, should be adequately understood.

There should be a recognizable latent or early symptomatic stage.

There should be a suitable test or examination.

The test should be acceptable to the population.

There should be an agreed policy on whom to treat as patients.

There should be an accepted treatment for patients with recognized disease.

Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available.

The cost of case-finding (including diagnosis and treatment of patients diagnosed) should be economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole.

Case-finding should be a continuing process and not a “once and for all” project.