Other public health

Question 1

Define number needed to treat NNT

Answer 1

Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is the number of patients you need to treat to prevent one additional bad outcome (death, stroke, etc.).

For example, if a drug has an NNT of 5, it means you have to treat 5 people with the drug to prevent one additional bad outcome

Question 2

What 3 things are needed for consent

Answer 2

1. Voluntary
2. Informed
3. Capacity

Question 3

Define health

Answer 3

a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease

Question 4

What is inverse care law

Answer 4

= the availability of medical or social caretends to vary inversely with the need of the population served

Question 5

What are the 3 types of resource allocation

Answer 5

Egalitarian - provide all care that is necessary and required to everyone ( + equal for everyone, - economically restrcited)

Maximising - based soley on consequence (+ resources allocated to thosr likely to receive most benefit, - those with ‘less need’ receive nothing)

Libertarian - each individual responsible for own health (+ onus on patient therefore may be more engaged, - not all disease are self-inflicted)

Question 6

What are the 5 aspects of health belief model

Answer 6

1. Perceived susceptibility
2. Perceived severity
3. Health motivation
4. Perceived benefits
5. Perceived barriers

Question 7

Advantages of health belief model

Answer 7

• can be applied to wide variety of health behaviours
• cues to action are unique component
• longest stagding model

Question 8

Disadvantages of health belief model

Answer 8

• other factors may influence the outcome
• doesnt consider emotions
• doesnt differentiate between first time and repeat behaviours