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Public Health Flashcards

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What are the key determinants of health?

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Genes
Environment (physical, social & economic)
Lifestyle
Health care

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What is primary prevention?

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Intervening before health effects occur

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What are some examples of primary preventions?

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Vaccines
Altering risky behavious
Banning substances

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What is secondary prevention?

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Detecting/ treating disease as soon as possible to halt or slow its progress

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What are some examples of secondary prevention?

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Screening tests

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What is tertiary prevention?

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Reducing the impact of an established disease

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What is equity?

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Being fair and impartial

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What is equality?

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Equal shares for everyone

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What is horizontal equity?

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Equal treatment for equal need

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What is vertical equity?

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Unequal treatment for unequal need

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What classifications can be used for health equity?

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Spatial and social

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What is spatial inequity?

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Geographical differences

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What are some examples of social inequities?

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Age
Gender
Class
Ethnicity

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What is the difference between inequality and inequity?

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Inequality tends to relate to things that can be expressed in numbers, whereas inequity relates more to qualitative matters/

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What are the three domains of public health practice?

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Health improvement
Health protection
Health care

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What is health improvement?

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Societal interventions aimed at preventing disease, promoting health and reducing inequalities

17
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What is health protection?

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Concerned with measures to control infectious disease risks and environmental hazards

18
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What is health care?

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Organisation and delivery of safe, high quality services for prevention, treatment and care

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What factors are associated with health improvement?

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Inequalities
Education
Housing
Employment
Lifestyles
Family/ community
20
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What factors are involved with health protection?

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Infectious diseases
Chemicals/ poisons
Radiation
Emergency response
Environmental health hazards
21
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What factors make up health care?

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Clinical effectiveness
Efficiency
Service planning
Audit and evaluation
Clinical governance
Equity
22
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What are the three levels of public health intervention?

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Individual level
Community level
Ecological (population) level

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