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what are asylum seekers entitled too

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-Weekly allowance
-Housing
-Free NHS care

NOT allowed to work or any other benefits

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what does it mean when an asylum claim has been apporved

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-5 years leave to remain in the UK
-Right to work and claim benefits
-Access to mainstream housing
-Can apply for family reunion
-Can apply for travel document

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What can be done after 5 years of refugee status ?

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-Apply for indefinite leave to remain and after a year of ILR, can apply for british citizenship

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what are the 3 core principles of the NHS

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-Meets the needs of everyone
-Free at the point of delivery
-Based on clinical need, not ability to pay

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Define the inverse care law

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-The availability of good medical or social care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served

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What is Maslows Hierachy of needs

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Physiological : air, water, food
Safety : security of body and resources
Love/belonging : friendship, family, intimac
Esteem : confidence
Self-actualisation

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what are 3 barriers to healthcare access for homeless people

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-Difficulties with access to healthcare
-Lack of integration with other agencies
-Other priorities

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Define comorbidity

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More than one illness or disease occurring in one person at the same time

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Define multi-morbidity

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More than two illnesses or diseases occurring in the same person at the same time

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Define polypharmacy

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Concurrent use of multiple medications in an individual (e.g. 5)

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what is apporopriate polypharmacy

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-Medicines have been optimised and where the medicines are prescribed according to best evidence

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what is problematic polypharmacy

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Prescribing of multiple medications inappropriately or where the intended benefit is not realised

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Give 4 categories of the determinants of health

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Genes
Environment : physical, social and economic
Lifestyle
Health care

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Define equity

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what is fair and just

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define equality

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equal shares

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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
E.G Individuals with common cold vs pneumonia need unequal treatment

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What are the dimensions of health equity

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Spatial (ie. geographical)
Social : age, gender, socioeconomic class, ethnicity)

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what are the 3 domains of public health practice

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-Health improvement : inequalities, education, housing etc
-Health protection : control infectious diseases etc
-Health care

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What are the 3 levels of intervention when improving public health

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-Individual : immunisation (delivered to each child)
-Community : E.g. playground for local community
-Ecological (population) level : smoking ban in public places

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what is the approach to improving health of a population or population subgroup

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Needs assessment -> planning -> implementation -> evaluation

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Define need, demand and supply

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Need : ability to benefit from intervention
Demand : what people ask for
Supply : what is provided

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define a health needs assessment

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-Systematic method for reviewing the health issues facing a population, leading to agreed priorities and resource allocation that will improve health and reduce inequalities
-Done before designing an intervention

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what 3 categories can a health needs assessment be carried out for

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Population or sub-group
Condition
Intervention

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Explain the 4 different definitions of need from a sociological perspective

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-Felt : individual perceptions of variation from normal health
-Expressed : individual seeks help to overcome variation in normal health
-Normative : professional defines intervention appropriate for the expressed need
-Comparative : comparison between severity, range of interventions and cost

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What are the 3 public health approaches to a health needs assessment

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Epidemiological
Comparative
Corporate

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what is the epidemiological approach to health needs assessment

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-Informs health need based on : size of problem, services available, care of the patients and looking at evidence bases for effectiveness of services

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Give 3 issues with the epidemiological approach to health needs assessment

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  • Doesn’t consider felt needs
  • Required data may not be available
  • Variable quality of the data.
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what is the comparative approach to health needs assessment

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-Compares the services received by a population with the same service received by another : spatial, social (age, gender, class, ethnicity).
- E.g. breast services in one city compared to another

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Give 2 + and 2 - of the comparative approach to health needs assessment

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  • Relies data availability
  • Populations may be uncomparable
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What is the corporate approach to health needs assessment

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-Asks the local population what their heath needs are
-Uses focus groups, interviews, public meetings

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Give 1 + and 2 - with the corporate approach to health needs assessment

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-Difficult to distinguish ‘need’ from ‘demand’
-Groups mat have vested interests

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What is Donabedian’s framework for a health service evaluation

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Structure
Process
Outcome

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What is the structure of a health service

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what is there : buildings, staff, equipment etc

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what is the process of a health service

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  • What is done : examples ->
    • No. of pts seen
    • The process pts go through
    • No. of operations performed
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How can the outcome of a health service be classified ?

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  1. Mortality, morbidity, quality of life / PROMs, patient satisfaction
  2. Five Ds : death, disease, disability, discomfort, dissatisfaction
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what is the issue with using health outcomes to evaluation a service?

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-Causal link between service and outcome is hard to establish
-Long time lag between service provided and outcome
-Large sample sizes are needed
-Data may not be available
-Issues with data quality

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what is maxwell’s dimensions of quality for assessing quality of health care in evaluation

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3 A’s =, 3 E’s

-Acceptability
-Accessibility
-Appropriateness
-Effectiveness
-Efficiency : is the output maximised for given input
-Equity

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what is the qualitative method for evaluating a health service

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-Observation
-Interviews
-Focus groups
-Reviews of documents

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what are quantitive methods for evaluating a health service

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-Routinely collected date
-Review of records
-Surveys
-Other special studies

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41
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Define primary prevention

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Preventing a disease from occurring by reducing exposure or risk factor levels

42
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Define secondary prevention

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-Detecting disease early in order to alter the course of disease

OR

-Prevention of disease from recurring

43
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Define tertiary prevention

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Minimising disability or other negative effects of disease and precent complications

44
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what is the population approach to prevention

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Preventative measure delivered on a population wide basis and seeks to shift the RF distribution curve

45
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what is the high risk approach to prevention

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Identify individuals above a chosen cut off and treat them

46
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What is the prevention paradox

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A preventative measure which brings much benefit to the population often offers little to each participating individual

47
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Define screening

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Process which sorts out apparently well people who probably have disease (or precursors or susceptibility to a disease) from those who probably do not.

48
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Define sensitivity

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-Probability of a person with the disease obtaining a + test

49
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Define specificity

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-Probability that a person without the disease will test negative

50
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How is sensitivity calculated

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True positive / true positive + false negative

True positive over total no. of people with the disease who are screened

51
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How is specificity calculated ?

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True negative / True negative + false positive

52
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Define positive predictive value

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The proportion of people with a positive test result who actually have the disease

53
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How is positive predictive value calculated ?

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True positive / True positive + false positive

54
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what is the negative predictive value

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Proportion of people with a negative test result who do not have the disease

55
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How is negative predictive value calculated

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True negative / True negative + false negative

56
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what is lead time bias ?

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a patient can appear to have survived longer because the disease was diagnosed earlier, even if earlier detection made no difference to survival

57
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what are the 3 categories of health behaviour

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  • Health behaviour : behaviour aimed to prevent disease (e.g healthy eating)
  • Illness behaviour : behaviour aimed to seek remedy (e.g. going to the doctor)
  • Sick role behaviour : any activity aimed at getting well (e.g. taking medications)
58
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what is the health belief model of behaviour change

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Individuals will change if they :

-Believe that they are susceptible to the condition in question
-Believe that it has serious consequences
-Believe that taking action reduces susceptibility
-Believe that the benefits of taking action outweigh the costs

59
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What is a negative of the HMB of behaviour change

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Doesn’t consider emotion

60
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what is the theory of planned behaviour as a behaviour change model

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-Best predictor of behaviour is intention
-Intention is determined by :
- persons attitude to the behaviour
- the social pressure and societal norms
- perceived ability to perform the behaviour

61
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Give one + and one - of the theory of planned behaviour

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  • No emotions considered
  • Doesn’t consider how the 3 interact
  • Relies on self reported behaviour
  • Assumes the 3 can be measured
62
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What is the trans-theoretical model / stages of change model for behavioural change

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  • 5 stages of behaviour change
    -Pre contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintence
63
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Give 3 negatives to the trans-theoretical model

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  • Not all people move through every stage
  • Change might operate on continuum rather than discrete stages
  • Doesn’t take into account values, habits, culture, social and economic factors
64
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Give 8 determinants of health (PROGRESS)

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P : place of residence
R : race
O : occupation
G : gender
R : religion
E : education
S : socio-economic
S : social capital

65
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What is the Wilson Jungner criteria for screening (INASEP)

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I : important disease
N : natural Hx of disease understood
A : acceptable to population
S : simple, safe precise test
E : effective treatment
P : policy agreed on who to treat

66
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What is length-time bias ?

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-Slowly progressing diseases more likely to be caught in screening, making it appear that screening prolongs life when it is only catching the slow growing types (e.g. cancer)

67
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what are the 5 domains of exclusion in older people

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  1. Material resources
  2. Civic activities
  3. Basic services
  4. Neighbourhood
  5. Social relationships
68
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what 3 principles guide resource allocation

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-> Egalitarian : provide all care that is necessary and required for everyone
-> Maximising : act is evaluated soley in terms of consequences
-> Libertarian : each is responsible for their own health

69
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Give 2 descriptive observational studies

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-> Ecological study : prevalence of disease over time
-> Case study : study individuals

70
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give a descriptive and analytical observational study

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Cross sectional : collects data from a population and a specific point in time

71
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Give 2 analytical observational studies

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-Cohort
-Case control

72
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what is a cohort study

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-Longitudinal study in similar groups but with different RF/treatments
-Follow them up, measure who gets disease

73
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What is a case control study

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Observational study looking at cause of a disease

74
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what is an experimental study desgin

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randomised control trial

75
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How is odds calculated

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odds = probability / 1 - probability

76
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what is the bradford hill criteria for causality : STD R CRAP

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S : strength of association
T : temporality : does exposure precede the outcome in time
D : dose response : the higher the dose of exposure reduces risk of disease
R : reversibility
C : consistency

77
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Define incidence

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  • No. of new cases per unit time
  • Increased by increasing screening
  • Decreased by decreasing RF
78
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define prevalence

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  • Number of people with a disease at a certain point in time
  • no. of cases of disease at a point in time / total no. of population at a certain point in time
79
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define person time

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time of entry to a study until (i) disease onset, (ii) loss to follow-up or (iii) end of study

80
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How is incidence rate calculated

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new cases in a time period / total person time at risk in time period

81
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How is relative risk caclulated ?

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  • Ratio of risk of disease in the exposed to the risk in the unexposed
    -Incidence in exposed / incidence in unexposed
    R = Ratio
82
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How is relative risk reduction calculated

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1 - relative risk

83
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How is attributable risk calculated

(DISEASE = EXPOSURE TO DISEASE IS BAD = EXPOSURE IS HIGHER)

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Incidence in exposed - incidence in unexposed

84
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what is a standard unit of alcohol

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10ml/8g

85
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What is the unit of alcohol calculation

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% alcohol by volume x amount of liquid in ml / 100

86
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Define compliance

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  • Extent to which a patient’s behaviour coincides with medical or health advice
  • Professionally focused, doctor knows best
87
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Define adherence

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  • Acknowledges patients beliefs, regards health professional as expert conveying their knowledge which results in enhanced patient knowledge, satisfaction and adherence to medical regime
88
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define concordance

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Sees patients as equals in care
They will take part in treatment decisions
Consultation is a negotiation between equals

89
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define utilitarianism

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an act is evaluated solely in terms of its consequences, it acts to maximise good

90
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define deontology

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the theory that the features of an act themselves determines worthiness

91
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define validity

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how close to the truth something is

92
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define reliability

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how consistent the results are, if the experiment was repeated would the results be the same/similar

93
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what is used in the transition from opiate use (heroin) to abstinence

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methadone

94
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what can be used as an alternative to methadone?

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buprenophine (safer)

95
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what is used to prevent heroin relapse?

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Naltrexone : opioid antagonist

(prevents the pleasure)

96
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Relieves opioid withdrawal

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Lofexidine

97
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Opioid overdose treatment

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Naloxone

98
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How is attributable risk % calculated

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Attributable risk / incidence in exposed X 100

99
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How is absolute risk reduction calculated

(DRUG = GOOD = EXPOSURE = GOOD)

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incidence in unexposed - incidence in exposed

100
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How is number needed to treat calculated

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1/absolute risk reduction

101
Q

What 2 medications are used in smoking cessation

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-> reduce craVVing = Varenicline
-> reduces PPleasure = Bupropion

102
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What can be used for smoking cessation in pregnancy

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Nicotine replacement -> patches, gum etc

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