Patients

Question 1

Define lay beliefs

Answer 1

Concepts used by non-professionals to explain health and illness

Question 2

Define lay referral

Answer 2

Process patients go through when they discuss illness with other lay people who recommend seeing a doctor

Question 3

Define primary preventions

Answer 3

Prevent onset of disease

Question 4

Examples of primary preventions

Answer 4

Immunisations, Avoiding exposures, Engaging positive health behaviours

Question 5

Define secondary preventions

Answer 5

Manage disease at an early stage

Question 6

Examples of secondary prevention

Answer 6

Screening and monitoring risks

Question 7

Define tertiary prevention

Answer 7

Reduce the effects of established disease

Question 8

Criticisms of health promotion

Answer 8

Fear of government monitoring, People lack the ability to change, Enforce negative stereotypes

Question 9

Describe the prevention paradox

Answer 9

Health promotions improve health on a population level but not an individual level

Question 10

Describe issues in assessing health promotion

Answer 10

Confounding factors, Lag time, and Expensive

Question 11

Disadvantages to screening

Answer 11

Takes time and money, Emotional stress

Question 12

Define lead time bias

Answer 12

Patients live with the disease for longer due to earlier diagnosis, Appears they live longer

Question 13

Define length time bias

Answer 13

Screening is better at detecting slow progressing disease, Screened diseases appear to have a better prognosis but this is not due screening but the nature of the disease

Question 14

Describe selection bias in the context of screening

Answer 14

People who go for screening tend to make other positive health choices

Question 15

Criticisms of screening

Answer 15

Victim blaming, Government monitoring the population, Targeted at women

Question 16

Define illness work

Answer 16

Management of symptoms

Question 17

Define everyday life work

Answer 17

Maintaining normal life

Question 18

Define emotional work

Answer 18

Maintaining emotional well being

Question 19

Define biographical work

Answer 19

Challenges faced by how the patient views themself

Question 20

Define identity work

Answer 20

Dealing with stigma and how illness defines them

Question 21

Define stigma

Answer 21

Negative connotations associated with a condition

Question 22

Define discreditable stigma

Answer 22

Disease is not visible

Question 23

Define discredited stigma

Answer 23

Disease is visible

Question 24

Define enacted stigma

Answer 24

Where discrimination is experienced

Question 25

Define felt stigma

Answer 25

Fear of enacted stigma

Question 26

Define the medical view of disability

Answer 26

Deviation from the norm

Question 27

Define the social view of disability

Answer 27

Failure of society to adjust

Question 28

State a generic instrument

Answer 28

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