Management and Politics Flashcards
Describe human factors
Common failings in humans ie mistaking similar looking containers
How can errors from human factors be decreased
Systems based approach
Define clinical governance
Legal duty of healthcare authorities to maintain and improve quality of care
Define quantitative research
Gives numerical data
Define qualitative research
Understand ideas and perception
Challenges to get new evidence into practice
Making people aware, Breaking old habits, Gaining needed resources, Not align with priorities
Describe the artefact explanation for health inequities
Errors in evidence collection
Describe the social selection explanation for health inequites
Ill people can’t work so they fall in social class
Describe the behaviour-cultural explanation for health inequites
People from disadvantaged backgrounds tend to engage in poor health behaviours
Describe the materialist explanation for health inequities
People don’t have the resources to follow positive health behaviours
Describe different views of health care from people of different backgrounds
Disadvantaged tend to view health as a series of crises, Don’t engage with preventative services
Define implicit rationing
Treatment based on clinical judgement
Advantages and disadvantages of implicit rationing
Appreciates hetrogenity of patients, Can lead to discrimination
Define explicit rationing
Treatment based on meeting set criteria
Advantages and disadvantages of explicit rationing
Equal, but doesn’t take into account hetrogenity of patients, Can be distressing, Limits clinical freedom
