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Define cost benefit
Costs and benefits expressed in monetary units
Define cost minimisation
Compares costs of alternative treatments of equal effectiveness
Define cost consequence
Costs expressed in monetary units and consequences in natural units e.g. deaths or time to relief of pain
Define cost effectiveness
Ratio of cost in monetary units and consequences in natural units e.g. death or time to pain relief –e.g. cost/minute of pain avoided
Define cost utility
Ratio of costs in monetary units and overall measure of health status (well being/utility) e.g. EQ-5D, SF-6D
Which model of health economics is preferred by nice and why?
Cost utility
Allows comparison between treatments for different disorders
Cost per Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY), Incremental cost effectiveness/utility ratio
Cost in monetary units of buying one year of life in perfect health
What is health utility? And how do we measure it?
Measure of current overall health status
Can be measured in different ways
Within RCTs EuroQol-5D is brand leader: Self-completed questionnaire; preferred by NICE
What are the 5 dimensions of health utility?
Mobility Self-Care Usual Activities Pain / discomfort Anxiety / Depression
What are direct and indirect costs?
Direct (NHS perspective): Cost used to deliver intervention (drugs, doctors, AHPs, transport, buildings) Indirect costs (societal perspective): Lost productivity Indirect costs (personal social care perspective): patient costs, social care costs
What is the Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio?
Cost / utility (QALYs)
What is proportional equality?
Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally in proportion to the morally relevant difference
What is proportionate universalism?
Tackling social gradient in health requires a combination of both universal (population-wide) and targeted interventions that reflect the level of disadvantage and hence, the level of need
What is health inequality?
Differences in health experience and health outcomes between different population groups –according to socioeconomic status, geographical area, age, disability, gender or ethnic group
What is health inequity?
Differences in opportunity for different population groups which result in unequal life chances, access to health services, nutritious food, adequate housing etc. These can lead to health inequalities
What ethical principles are relevant in resource allocation in healthcare?
Maximising overall benefit (utilitarianism)
Prudence (managing public resources responsibly)
Respect for autonomy: Facilitating choice within prescribed options, Public involvement in decision making processes
Fair process: Consistency of reasons, Transparency, Opportunity for appeal/review
What is self management?
Individual’s ability to manage symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and life style changes inherent in living with a chronic condition
Efficacious self-management: ability to monitor one’s condition and to effect cognitive, behavioural and emotional responses necessary to maintain a satisfactory quality of life. Dynamic and continuous
process of self-regulation is established
What is self care?
Preventative strategy i.e. tasks performed by healthy people at home
What is self management support?
Portfolio of techniques and tools that help patients choose healthy behaviours
Fundamental transformation of patient-caregiver relationship into a collaborative partnership
Why is self management important?
Global burden of disease is growing
Long-term conditions are increasing as leading causes of
mortality worldwide: E.g. cardiovascular disease and diabetes
People with LTCs likely to spend
What do people with long term conditions want from healthcare?
To be involved in decisions about their care
To be listened to
Access to information to help them make those decisions
Support to understand their condition and confidence to manage
Joined up, seamless services and proactive care
Do not want to be in hospital unless it is absolutely necessary and then only as part of a planned approach
They want to be treated as a whole person and for the NHS to act as one team
What type of self management approach works best?
Active support works best, focused on self-efficacy (confidence) and behaviour to improve outcomes
Approaches that focus on whether people are ready to change
Information and knowledge alone are not enough
Describe the bandura model of self efficacy
Person -> efficacy expectations -> behaviour -> outcome expectations -> outcomes
What do efficacy expectations predict?
Whether individual is likely to engage in an activity or behaviour
The degree to which they will overcome obstacles
Likelihood of success in achieving and maintaining behaviour change
What do outcome expectations predict?
Whether performing specified task will have required effect
How can you enhance a persons self efficacy?
Positive mastery experiences
Positive vicarious experiences
Positive verbal persuasion
Positive emotional readjustment
What are key psychological components to positive emotional readjustment?
Finding and maintaining hope: believing in themselves, sense of personal agency, optimistic about the future
Re-establishment of positive identity: new identity which incorporates illness, but retains a core, positive sense of self
Building a meaningful life: making sense of illness, finding a meaning in life, despite illness engaged in life
Taking responsibility and control: feeling in control of illness and in control of life
What are the 3 enablers to positive emotional emotional readjustment and effective self management?
Agenda setting: Identifying issues and problems, Preparing in advance, Agreeing a joint agenda
Goal setting: Small and achievable goals, Builds confidence and momentum
Goal follow-up: Proactive: instigated by the system, Soon (within 14 days), Encouragement/ reinforcement
What is a SMARTER goal?
Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-bound Enjoyable Reward
What are potential barriers to effective self management?
Behavioural beliefs (pain requires rest) Subjective beliefs (its inevitable at my age) Control beliefs and Self-efficacy (I can’t do anything to improve it) Depression, weight problems, difficulty exercising, fatigue, poor physician communication, low family support, pain, and financial problems
What is the LTC 6 questionnaire?
Asks about long term condition patients health over previous 12 months. Questions are:
Did you discuss what was most important for you in managing your own health?
Were you involved as much as you wanted to be in decisions about your care or treatment?
How would you describe the amount of information you received to help you manage your health?
Have you had enough support from your health (and social care) team to manage your health?
Do you think the care and support you receive is joined up and working for you?
How confident are you that you can manage your own health?
What are self management interventions or programmes?
Psycho-educational self-management behaviour-change interventions, Face-to-face or online
What areas can be improved by self management interventions?
Increased knowledge Symptom management Use of self-management behaviours Self-efficacy Beneficial medical outcomes Improvements in haemoglobin levels Systolic blood pressure Fewer asthma attacks Improved OA pain Disability measures Behaviour-change Self-rated health Cognitive symptom management Frequency of aerobic exercise Cognitive status Health status OA Function
What is the Stanford model CDSMP? What are the 4 enchanting strategies?
Chronic disease self management programme
Theoretically grounded within Social Learning Theory, includes four efficacy enhancing strategies: Skills mastery, social modelling, social persuasion and reinterpretation of symptoms
Six, weekly sessions, each lasting approximately 2.5hours
Led by pairs of trained tutors, who may themselves live with a LTC,
or co-delivered by a trained lay-tutor and health professional
Delivery guided by tutor’s manual to ensure consistency of delivery and content
Tutors trained and accredited to rigorous set of quality standards
focusing on adherence to the timing, sequence and coverage of activities as set out in the manual to ensure fidelity
What are advantages of self management programmes?
Reduce healthcare utilisation
Cost-effective
Theoretically grounded
Strong effectiveness evidence
Structured content and delivery by trained tutors
Improve patient outcomes in numerous domains
What is the WHO definition of mental retardation (learning disability)?
Condition of arrested or incomplete development of the mind, especially characterized by impairment of skills manifested during developmental period, which contribute to the overall level of intelligence i.e. cognitive, language, motor and social abilities