PPP Flashcards
1
Q
What is the health belief model?
A
- Perceived susceptibility
- Perceived severity
- Motivation
- Perceived benefits
- Perceived barriers
- Cue for action
2
Q
What is the theory of learnt behaviour?
A
- Attitude to behaviour
- Subjective norm
- Perceived behavioural control
3
Q
What are Alaszewski’s theoretical areas of risk?
A
1) Epidemiology
2) Statistics
3) Operational/ engineering risk
4) Social sciences
4
Q
What is absolute risk?
A
Risk compared to nothing else, chance of developing a condition in a certain time period.
5
Q
What is relative risk?
A
Risk in different groups compared.
6
Q
What are the 10 ways the media impacts on health?
A
- Too brief to matter on the news
- No full time health journalists
- No data to back claims
- Hyperbole
- Commercialism
- Single source stories
- Baseless predictions from basic science
- FDA approval given heavy weight
- Little health policy coverage
- No time to enterprise
