Preventative Medicine I: Exploring the concept of prevention within the context of Medical Practice

Question 1

What are improvements in heath due to? (5)

Answer 1

↓ rates of infectious diseases
Improved health status
Improved nutrition
Improved immunisation/medical treatment

Question 2

What are the 3 catagories of preventitive medicine and what do they involve?

Answer 2

Primary = preventing the onset of disease - behaviour
Secondary = stop progression once it has started - screening
Tertiary = limit disability and complications in established disease - rehabilitation

Question 3

What is Geoffrey Rose’s Single Population theory?

Answer 3

The largest number of cases of ill health happen not in those at high risk, but in those who have just some risk because there are more of them

High risk strategy - Target those with risk factors e.g. giving beta blocker to patients with high BP

Population strategy - aims to shift the distribution of a condition, so that fewer numbers of a case may occur e.g. education on diet and exercise

Question 4

What is the definition of social capital?

Answer 4

Networks together with shared norms, values and understandings that facilitate co-operation within or among groups