Public Health Flashcards

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What are the 4 domains of the health belief model?

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Perceived susceptibility
Perceived severity
Perceived benefits
Perceived barriers

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What are the stages of change/trans-theoretical model?

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Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse

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What 3 factors influence an individual’s intention to change their behaviour (Theory of Planned Behaviour)?

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Attitudes towards the behaviour
Subjective norm
Perceived behavioural control (internal and external factors that can influence perception)

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What are the three domains of public health?

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Health promotion = Societal interventions aimed at preventing disease
Health protection = Measures to control infectious disease
Improving health services = Organisation and safe delivery of high quality services

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What is equity?

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Healthcare is delivered relative to the healthcare need

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What are the two types of equity?

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Horizontal equity
Vertical equity

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What is horizontal equity?

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Equal treatment for equal need –> Those with the same disease should be treated equally

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What is vertical equity?

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Unequal treatment for different need
Eg. more treatment for pneumonia vs simple cold

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9
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What is the medical model of disability?

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The problem is the disabled person

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What is the social model of disability?

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The problem is the disabling world
Opposes the medical model of disability

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What is a never event error?

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A serious, largely preventable patient safety incident that should not have happened if available preventable measures had been implemented

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What is a skill-based error?

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An error due to the lack of capabilities of the medical staff

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What is a sloth error?

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Where an error is made due to laziness

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What is a fixation error?

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Where a mistake is made because the investigations are tailored towards the most likely diagnosis without allowing for differential diagnoses

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What is an error of commission?

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A medical error where the wrong steps are taken, resulting in inappropriate increased risk of adverse effects related to care –> E.g. prescribing wrong antibiotics

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What is an error of omission?

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A medical error where appropriate steps are not taken, resulting in inappropriately increased risk of adverse effects related to care –> E.g. not doing a CT head on a stroke patient

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What is negligence?

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A breach of duty of care which results in damage

18
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What 4 questions are asked when assessing negligence?

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Was there a duty of care?
Was there a breach in the duty of care?
Did the patient come to harm?
Did the breach cause the harm?

19
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What factors can contribute to negligence?

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Failure to take proper care
System failure (eg. long waits in A&E)
Human factors (eg. communication problem between F2 and consultant)
Judgement failure (someone made the wrong decision)
Neglect (not giving sufficient care)
Misconduct (error covered up)

20
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What is the Bolam test?

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Did the doctor act in a way that is in accordance to guidelines and previous practice?

21
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What is the Bolitho test?

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Are the guidelines of how to act reasonable?

22
Q

What is ethnocentrism?

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The tendency to evaluate other groups according to their values compared to one’s own culture

23
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What is felt need?

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What an individual states their needs are

24
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What is expressed need?

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What services an individual accesses to address the felt need

25
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What is normative need?

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An expert opinion on how to address the expressed need, based on appropriate standards

26
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What is comparative need?

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The comparison of the normative need to others with similar felt needs

27
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What are the levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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Physiological needs –> food, water, warmth
Safety needs –> Housing, security
Love/belonging –> Intimate relationships, friends
Esteem needs –> Prestige and feelings of accomplishment
Self-actualisation –> Achieving ones full potential

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What are the three types of behaviour?

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Health behaviour
Illness behaviour
Sick role behaviour

29
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What is health behaviour?

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Behaviours to promote health and prevent disease

30
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What is illness behaviour?

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Behaviours to seek remedy eg. going to doctors

31
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What is sick role behaviour?

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Behaviours aimed at getting well eg. taking medication, resting

32
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What are potential barriers to the health belief model?

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Perceived control over actions
Anticipated regret of behaviour change
Failure to make preparatory actions
Implementation intentions
Relevance to self

33
Q

What is inspirational leadership?

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Motivation centred

34
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What is transactional leadership?

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Promotes compliance in exchange for reward/risk of punishment

35
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What is Laissez faire leadership?

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Delegates and allows members to make decisions for themselves

36
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What is transformational leadership?

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Inclusive leadership that is distributed through all levels of an organisation

37
Q

What is prevalence?

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A proportion of a population that has a given disease at any given point in time

38
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What is incidence?

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The number of new cases of a disease

39
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What is positive predictive value?

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The probability that subjects with a positive test result truly have the disease

40
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What is negative predictive value?

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Probability that subjects with a negative test result truly do not have the disease

41
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What is sensitivity?

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Probability that subjects with the disease are detected by a screening test

42
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What is specificity?

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Probability that subjects that do not have the disease are correctly tested as not having the disease by the screening test