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What are health seeking behaviors formed around?
-socioeconomic status, cultural influence, and personal relationships
How does social structure (aka socioeconomic status) influence health seeking?
SES is a strong predictor of health differences in people. People that are of higher social status and health are seen to live longer and have more full filled lives. People that have toxic lives are seen to have lower SES most of the time.
How does culture influence health seeking? is this at the individual or population level?
both the population level and the individual level
- fast food culture
- health literacy
- access to knowledge and technology
how do personal relationships influence health seeking?
positive and supportive relationships buffer the effects of stress and promote positive health outcomes
what happens to the life expectancy of some who lives an isolated life?
their life chances lower
what is a category A bioterrorism attack?
this is a risk to national security due to high transmission/decimation and high morality rates with the potential to cause social disruption and public panic that requires special action
What is a category B bioterrorism attack?
a moderate attack that is easy to disseminate. there are low morbidity rates and enhancement by the CDC
What is a category C bioterrorism attack?
emergin pathogens that could be engineered for mass spread because they are easily available and produced to have high morbidity rates and a major health impact
What are the two liability protection issues involved in pharmacy volunteer work?
The volunteer service act and the title 31 emergency management
what is the volunteer service act?
a law giving immunity for volunteers serving without being paid for state or non profit organizations
what is title 31 emergency management?
state officer immunity grated for workers when the governor declares a “state of emergency” for the state, unless they cause willfull misconduct, gross neglegance, or bad faith. then they will get in trouble
what are the three federal resources for pharmacy disaster assistance?
Healthcare ready website
NCPDP
strategic national stockpile
describe the health care ready website
this website maps the opened and closed pharmacies in the areas affects by the disaster and monitors international disasters that may effect medicine delivery to the US
describe the NCPDP. what does it stand for?
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
-this is guidance for the pharmacy at getting resources in a declared emergency, AND for healthcare workers that need information regarding claims and processing patients
describe the strategic national stockpile
these are 12-hour push packs to supplement and re-supply state and local public health agencies in the even of a national emergency anywhere at any time in the territory of the US
what are all the roles that a pharmacist can assume during a drug disaster
a volunteer for mass dispensing OR a POD
what is a POD
a site used as a distribution site for medicine and medical supplies to healthy people in an area of risk during a large-scale public health emergency
what pathogens are in a category C bioterrorism attack?
hantavirus and nipah virus
What three years were considered to be the “waves or opioid overdose”?
1990s
2010
2013
describe the opioid overdose in the 1990s
there was a large increase in the prescribing of opioids and there were deaths related to prescription opioids and that has continues to increase since 1999
describe the opioid overdose in 2010
heroin was the cause of many deaths
describe the opioid overdose in 2013
increase in overdose regarding synthetically made (illegally made) opioids from things such at fentanyl patches in combination with heroin, counterfeit pills, and cocaine
what patient population is targeted in the MTF survey? what does MTF mean?
MTF means monitoring the future and it targeted students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grade in hundreds of schools across the country.
what was found the the MTF survey?
there is a large increase in vaping across the country
what substance had the highest rate of use in the MTF survey
alcohol
what substance came second int he MTF survey for the highest use?
vaping
what were the findings in the MTF survey in regards to increase and decrease in specific drug usages?
increased vaping use, and decreased use of drugs in every other category
what patient population was targeted in the NSDUH study?
ages 12 years old and up
what does NSDUH stand for?
National Survey of Drug Use and Health
what did the NSDUH find in their survey in regards to marijuana use?
there is increases marijuana use since 2007
what did illicit drug users say they started with in NSDUH?
marijuana
when did people start smoking weed according to NSDUH?
teenage years