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primary prevention example
targets disease free (general poulation)
- poster campaigns
- increasing cost of alcohol
secondary prevention
people at risk of a health problem
- screening of at risk indivciduals, control of risk factors and early intervention
tertiary prevention
people with a health problem
- rehab, preventing complications and improving quality of life
health improvement examples
- Smoking cessation
- Public mental health
- Sexual health services
- Substance misuse services
- NHS health checks
- Weight management
healthcare public health
- Strategic direction and leadership
- Evaluation and research
- Support evidence-based decision making
- Needs assessment
- Service design
- Prioritisation
the biomedical model
- Illness understood in terms of biological and physiological processes
- Treatment involves physical interventions (drugs/surgery)
health definition
health is a state of complete, physical, metnala nd social wellbeing, it is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’
biopsychosocial model
interdisciplinary model that looks at the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors
psyco
cognition
emotion
behaviour
Bio
physiology
genetics
pathogens
social
how many definitions of heatlh
3
3 definitions of health
negative
positive
functional
negative definition of health
health equates absence of illness
positive definition of health
health is the state of wellbeing and fitness
functional def of health
health is the ability to do certain things
influence of lay beliefs on behaviour (3)
1) health behaviour
2) illness behaviour
3) sick role behaviour
health behaviour
activity that impacts on health or helps prevent illness
e.g. smoking is more prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups
illness behaviour
activity of ill person to define illness and seek solution
sick role behaviour
formal response to symptoms, inc seeking formal help and acting as a patient
Higher social class more likely to have a
positive definition of health
o Incentive of giving up smoking are more evident for groups who expect to remain health- more able to focus on long term investments e.g. quitting is the rational choice
Lower social class, incentives are less clear
o More of a focus on improving immediate environment
o Smoking used as a coping mechanism
o May be normalised behaviour e.g. smoking is a rational choice
what influences illness hevaiour?
- Culture e.g. stoical attitude
- Visibility or salience of symptom
- Extent too which symptoms disrupt life
- Frequency and persistence of symptoms
- Tolerance threshold
- Info an understanding
- Availability of resource
- Lay referral
Lay referral system
chain of advice-seeking contacts which the sick make with other lay people prior to- or instead of – seeking help from professional
sick role
Sick role described as: ‘a temporary, medically sanctioned form of deviant behaviour’
early presenters to GPs
experienced significant and rapid impact on functional ability
late presents to GPs (delayers)
often developed explanations for symptoms that related to preceding activities
Limitations of the ‘sick role’
- Not all illnesses are temporary
- Does not acknowledge differences between people
- Does not acknowledge individual agency in defining and coping with illness i.e. not involving medical profession
Sick role mechanism
- In order to be excused from normal duties and be considered not responsible for their condition the sick person is expected to seek profession advice and adhere to treatments
- Medical practitioners are empowered to sanction their temporary absence from the work force and family duties as well as to absolve them from blame
deniers and distancers
e.g. half the sample denied either having asthma at all (deniers) or denied having “proper” asthma (distancers)
- Claim symptoms don’t interfere with everyday life
- Use complex or drastic strategies to hide it
- Taking medication relies on accepting asthmatic identity e.g.
o Don’t take the drugs
o Don’t attend asthma clinics
acceptors
Accepted diagnosis and doctors advice completely. Normal life involved having control over symptoms through medication.
Asthma was not a stigmatised identity- happy to use inhalers in public
pragmatists
Did use preventative medication but only when asthma was bad.
- Accepted they had asthma but saw it as a mild acute illness
chronic diseases
are diseases which current medical interventions can only control and not cure
life forever altered- no return to normal
what is a long term condition
is a condition that cannot, at present, be cured but is controlled by medication and/or other treatment/therapies
- Increase with ageing population but not only older people who live with LTCS
e.g. rheumatoid arthritis
BIGGEST CHALLENGE FACING NHS
illness work
- getting a diagnosis
- managing the symptoms and self-management and normalisation
3 stages of getting a diagnosis
pre-diagnosis
diagnosis
post diagnosis
everday life work
coping (cognitive processes invovled in dealing with illness) and strategic (mobilising resources) management
emotional work
- Work that people do to protect the emotional well-being of other
- Maintain normal activities becomes deliberately conscious
- People find friendships disrupted and may strategically withdraw
- May involving downplaying pain or other symptoms
- Presenting a ‘cheery self’
biographical work
loss of self
- Former self-image crumbles away without simultaneous development of equally valued new ones
- Constant struggle to lead valued lives and maintain positive definitions of self
- Interaction between body and identity
Burys biographical disruption
Burys biographical disruption
Focuses on people’s experience of the onset of illness as a disruptive event
- Acknowledges differences between individuals
limits of Burys biographical disruption
- Does not deal with conditions from birth
- Some social groups expect illness more than others
- Later work has shown that older people may see chronic illness as ‘biographically normal’
Goffmans stigma outlines
- Distinction between ‘virtual social identity’ (how people are understood by others) and ‘actual social identity” (qualities a person possesses)
THIS SPOILS IDENTITY
stigma is a
a negatively defined condition, attribute, trait or behaviour conferring deviant status
2 TYPES OF STIGMA
- Stigma 1
- stigma 2
Stigma 1
discreditable or discredited
discreditable
Discreditable: nothing seen, but if found..
o Mental illnes/ HIV +ve
discredited
Physically visible characteristic or well known stigma which sets them apart
o Physical disability
o Known suicide attempt
stigma 2
felt vs enacted
felt stigma
real experience of prejudice, discriminated and disadvantage
o As the consequence of a condition
enacted stigma
fear of enacted stigma, also encompasses a feeling of shame (associated with having a condition)
o Selective concealment
Social determinants of health
Are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels.
Inverse Care Law:
the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served
Deprivation strongly associated with ill health
The more deprived a person is the larger the proportion of their life will be spent in ill health and more likely to die at a younger age
Health and gender
‘Men die quicker, but women get sicker’
Men
- Lower life expectancy
- More CVD e.g. heart attacks
- More suicide
- More violent death
Women
- Higher life expectancy
- Higher reported (poor) mental health
- Higher rates of disability and limiting longstanding illness
Explanations, theories and pathways for health inequalities (6)
- Artefact (discredited)
- Social selection
- Behavioural-cultural
- Materialist (most plausible)
- Psychosocial
- Income distribution
1.Artefact explanation
Health inequalities evident due to the way statistics are collected (re measurement of class)
Social selection explanation
- Sick individuals move down social hierarchy, healthy individuals move up
- Chronically ill and disabled more likely to be disadvantaged
- Plausible explanation
Behaviour-cultural explanation
Ill health due to peoples choices/ decisions, knowledge and goals.
Behaviours are outcomes of social processes, not simply individual choice
Choices may be difficult to exercise in adverse conditions
Choices may be rational for those who lives are constrained by lack of resources
Materialist explanation
Lack of choice in exposure to hazards e.g. radiation
Accumulation of factors across life course
Most plausible
Inequity-
inequity refers to unfair, avoidable differences arising from poor governance, corruption or cultural exclusion