Phd Flashcards
Methods of data collection
1.Health interview survey
2.Health examination survey
3.Health records survey
4.Questionaire survey: mailed, telephone interviews, face to face interviews
•open ended and closed ended ques
•Likert scale
•Guttman scale
Steps in surveying
- Establishing the objectives
- Designing the investigation
- Selecting the sample
- Conducting the examinations
- Analysing the data
- Drawing the conclusions
- Publishing the results
Classify basic oral health survey methods
•Index and age groups: 5,12,15,35-44,65-74
•pathfinder survey: pilot; comprehensive systematic
•Subgroups
•Number of subjects: urban, rural, total
Classify basic oral health survey methods
•Index and age groups: 5,12,15,35-44,65-74
•pathfinder survey: pilot; comprehensive systematic
•Subgroups
•Number of subjects: urban, rural, total
Levels of prevention
•Primary:
1)primordial
2) population (mass) strategy
3)High-risk strategy
•Secondary
•Tertiary: 1) Disability limitation
2) Rehabilitation
Changing concepts of public health
1) Disease control phase
2) Health promotional phase
3) Social engineering phase
4) Health for all phase
Concepts of causation
1) Epidemiological triad: •host
•agent
•environment (1)Internal env; 2)external env: physical, biological, social: social factors, economic factors)
2) Multifactorial causation
3) Natural history of disease: •period of pre-pathogenesis ; • period of pathogenesis
4) Web of causation
5) Risk factors and risk groups
6) Spectrum of disease
7) Iceberg of disease
Types of rehabilitation
1) Medical
2) Psychological
3) Vocational
4) Social
Principles of primary health care
1) Equitable distribution
2) Community participation
3) Intersectoral coordination (multisectoral approach)
4) Appropriate technology
5) Focus on prevention
Tools of dental public health
1) Epidemiology
2) Biostatistics
3) Social sciences
4) Principles of administration
5) Preventive dentistry
Principles of health education
- Credibility
- Interest
- Participation
- Motivation
- Comprehension
- Reinforcement
- Learning by doing
- Known to unknown
- Setting an example
- Good human relations
- Feedback
- Community leaders
Stages in adoption of new ideas and practices
- Stage of unawareness
- Stage of awareness
- Stage of interest
- Stage of evaluation
- Stage of trial
- Stage of adoption
Pre-contemplation stage
Contemplation stage
Preparation stage
Action stage
Maintenance stage
Aids in health education
- Auditory aids
- Visual aids: a) projected aids
b) non-projected aids - Combination of audio-visual aids
Methods in health education
- Individual approach
- Group approach: a) chalk and talk(lectures)
b) symposium
c) group discussions
d) panel discussion
e) workshop
f) conferences
g) role playing/ socio drama
h) demonstration - Mass approach: a) television
b) radio
c) documentary films
d) newspapers/ press
e) printed material
f) direct mailing
g) posters
h) health museums/ exhibitions
i) internet
Approaches to achieve health
- Regulatory or legal approach
- Administrative or service approach
- Educational approach
- Primary health care approach
Objectives of health education
- Informing people
- Motivating people
- Guiding into action
Types of evaluation
- Formative evaluation
a) Relevance evaluation/needs assessment
b) Process evaluation - Summative evaluation
a) Effectiveness evaluation/ outcome evaluation
b) Impact evaluation
Steps in planning process
- Identify the problem: •conducting needs assessment •analysis of data
- Determining priorities
- Development of program, goals, objectives and activities : • outcome objective; • process objective
- Resource identification
- Identifying constraints
- Identify alternative strategies
- Develop implementation strategy
- Implementation
- Monitoring: • input data •process data •output data
Levels of health care in India
- Primary care
- Secondary care
- Tertiary care
Health care sectors in India
- Village level workers: a) Village health guides scheme ; b)local dias ; c) anganwadi workers (ICDS scheme) ; d) accredited social health activist (ASHA)
- Sub-centre level
- Primary health centre level
- Community health centre level
- Hospitals: rural; district
- Health insurance: a) ESI ; b) CGHS ; c) UHIS
- Other agencies: a) defence medical services; b) health care of railway employees
- Private sector
- Indigenous systems of medicine
- Voluntary health agencies (eg: Indian Red cross society)
- National health programs in India (eg: dengue control ; AIDS control)
Public health system in India
- Primary health care :
a) village level workers
b) sub-centres
c) primary health centres: - Hospitals/ health centres
a) community health centre
b) rural hospital
c) district hospital / health centre
d) specialist hospitals
e) teaching hospitals - Health insurance schemes
a) ESI
b)CGHS
c) UHIS - Other services: defence services; railway