Prevention and promotion Flashcards
What is health?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
In what fields are health influenced?
- Biology (genetics
- Environment, little or no control
- Lifestyle: personal decisions
- Health care organization: medical practice, nursing, hospitals, nursing homes, drugs, public health service, paramedic service, dental treatment
What are the environmental determinants of health?
- Socioeconimic: 1) income 2) employment, working conditions 3) housing 4) food insecurity 5) education 6) disability 7) race 8) early life
- Cultural
- Physical environment
Coordination action of health promotion?
Governments, health & other social & economic sectors, nongovernmental & voluntary organisation, local authorities, industry, media, health care systems
What is the definition on disease prevention?
Averting the development of pathological state. It includes all measures, definitive therapy that limit the progression of disease.
What is primordial prevention
Actions and measures inhibiting emerge of risk factors. In the form of environmental, economic, social, behavioral conditions and cultural patterns of living. Eks: discourage children from adopting harmful lifestyles. Main intervention is individual and mass education.
Primary prevention
- Action taken prior to onset of disease
- Intervention in prepathogenesis phase
- Health promotion and specific protection
- Population mass strategy: directed to whole population
- High risk strategy: to individuals at special risk
Secondary prevention
- Action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and prevent complication
- Arrest disease process, restore health, treat before irreversibly pathology takes place
Tertiary prevention
Measures in symptomatic patients to prevent complication. All interventions in pat who are/have been symptomatic
Quaternary prevention
Action taken to identify a pat at risk of overmedication, to protect him from new medical invasion, and to suggest to him interventions which are ethically acceptable
Primordial target
general population
Primordial goal
Reduce risk
Primary target
Susceptible
Primary goal
Reduce disease incidence
Secondary target
Asymptomatic
Secondary goal
Reduce prevalence of consequence
Tertiary target
Symptomatic
Tertiary goal
Reduce complication or diasbility
What are the Wilson and Junger criteria
- Knowledge of disease: an important health problem with latent period or predecease marker
- Knowledge of test: simple, safe, precise and validated, test values in population and cutoff levels, accepted
- Treatment: effective treatment for pat identified through early detection, evidence that early tx is better than late
- Cost: balanced against expenditures on medical care as a whole
What are the problems with screening?
- Lead time bias
- Length time bias
- Overdiagnosis
- Selection bias
Methods of screening
- Opportunistic: when they go to doctor for something else, simple easy, not reliant on patient compliance
- Systematic: deliberately seek out all patients, more comprehensive, require organization, time and commitment.
What are the recommended screenings for cancer?
- Breast: mammography 50-74y
- Cervical cancer: women 21-65 w pap smear and combined w HPV testing 30-65
- Colorectal: everyone 50-75y, FOB, sigmoid/coloscopy
- Lung cancer: low dose CT, 55-80 w 30 pack year smoking history, who currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 y (CT)
What is A and B recommendations?
A: applies to all persons in age/risk factor based group
B: not universal, but in context of clinical patient encounter
AAA screening
- B
- one time screening for men 65-75y/old who have ever smoked
Alcohol misuse
B, All aged 18 and older
High BP
A, All aged 18 and older