Public health Flashcards
What are the 4 types of prevention of disease?
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
- Quaternary?
What is primary prevention?
Preventing disease onset e.g. 5-a-day; vaccinations
What is secondary prevention?
Early detection/ optimise prognosis/ prevent recurrence e.g. screening
What is tertiary prevention?
Effective symptom management e.g. medications
What is quaternary prevention?
Prevent overmedicating patient??
What are two approaches to disease prevention?
- Population - for all
- High risk - for high risk groups
What is the prevention paradox?
Measures to improve public health will have little effect on MOST people
What is sensitivity?
True positive/ (true positive + false negative)
% diseased population testing +ve
What is specificity?
true negative/ (true negative + false positive)
% without disease who test negative
What is positive predictive value?
TP/(TP+FP)
% who test positive who are actually positive
What is negative predictive value?
TN/(TN+FN)
% who test negative who are actually negative
What are the different types of screening (3)?
- Population
- Opportunistic
- Occupational
What are some cons of screening (5)?
- Subclinical diagnosis?
- Fase reasurance
- Invasive/ uncessarsarry Tx/ Ix
- Expensive
- Anxiety/ worry
What is the name of the criteria to screen successfully?
Wilson junger criteria
What are the 10 Wilson junger criteria?
- Important health condition
- Available treatments and diagnostic facilities
- Treatable disease
- Recognisable latent period
- Obvious diagnostic test
- Generally accepted (the test to screen)
- Economically viable
- Natural history of untreated disease is known
- Issued agreed policy (on who to treat)
- Continuously done (not abruptly stopped)
What are two biases of screening that might make it appear to work?
- Lead time - cases picked up earlier so gives illusion of people living longer
- Length time - slower progressing disease more likely to be picked up on screening than faster progressing disease
What are the types of study design (6)?
- Ecological - observational across whole population (using census data)
- Cross sectional - looks at 1 point in time, assesses prevalence of disease and RFs at that point in time
- Case control - compares a group with a disease and a group without a disease and assesses their past exposure to RFs
- Cohort - follows a group with AND without a RF overtimes and assesses their development of a disease
- RCT - randomly assign an action to a group and compare their likelihood of disease with that of a control group
- Systematic review - combine currently existing studies into larger review
What is incidence?
Number of new cases in given time
What is prevalence?
Total number of cases at one point in time
What is relative risk?
The increased likelihood of an event occurring given exposure
What are odds?
Ratio of event happening/not happening
What are odds ratio?
Odds in exposed group/ odds in control group
this results in an amplification of the increase in likelihood
What are some types of bias (6)?
- Selection bias - includes if people drop out of study
- Recall bias (problem in how participants recall information)
- Reporter + observational bias
- Publication bias (results not published/ included in meta analysis)
- Measurement
- Observer - actions of participants change when they know they are in study
What criteria are used to assess causation?
Bradford hill criteria
What are the Bradford hill criteria?
- Dose - response
- Reversibility
- Consistency
- Biological plausibility
- Temporality (effect occurs after cause)
- Coherence (between lab and people)
- Analogy
- Strength
- Specificity
What are the 3 domains of public health?
- Improving health promotion
- Protection of health
- Service improvement
What is equality?
Everyone treated the same
What is equity?
People treated according to need
What is vertical vs horizontal equity?
- Horizontal = equal treatment for equal need
- Vertical = unequal treatment for unequal need
What are the 3 levels interventions can be delivered at?
- Individual
- Community
- Population
What are the two types of health behaviour?
- Health promoting
- Health damaging
What are the 3 types of health promoting behaviours?
- Health behaviour (e.g. exercise)
- Illness behaviour (e.g. seek remedy)
- Sick role (e.g. resting)
What are some reasons for damaging health behaviours (3)?
- Cultural
- Unrealistic optimism (e.g. infrequent so unlikely to do harm)
- Stress
What are the 3 models of behaviour?
- Becker (health belief model)
- Transtheoretical
- Theory of planned behaviour
What is the Becker model (health belief model) of behaviour (4)?
Individual will change if they believe they are:
* Susceptible
* Acknowledge consequences
* Believe action decreases susceptibility
* Action consequences outweigh continuing
What are the steps in the transtheoretical model of behaviour (6)?
Precontemplation –> contemplation –> preparation –> action –> maintenance –> relapse
What is the theory of planned behaviour (3)?
- Attitude + Subjective norm (others attitudes towards behaviour) + perceived behaviour control
- Intention
- Action
What is the nudge theory?
Changing environment can influence an individuals chance of choosing an action e.g. putting fruit near checkout makes people more likely to buy fruit
What is motivational interviewing?
Counselling approach to encourage patients to change their behaviour through exploring conflicting emotions
What is a model to describe health needs?
Bradshaw model
What is Bradshaw model (4)?
- Felt need - feeling short of breath
- Expressed need - attending GP
- Normative need - need determined by expert
- Comparative needs - comparing services received by one group of people with that of another
What is the health needs assessment cycle (4)?
- Assess
- Plan
- Implement
- Evaluate
How can health needs be assessed (assessment approach) (3)?
- Epidemiological - uses data on prevalence and incidence to evaluate needs
- Comparative - compare 2 demographically different services e.g. geographically
- Corporate - based on professionals POV/ organisational goals
What are some examples of services supplied +/- demand +/- need (3)?
- Supplied, not needed or demanded = ??75+ health checks??
- Supplied, needed, not demanded = heal prick newborn test
- Supplied, needed and demanded = surgery
How are health needs evaluated (evaluation approach) (2 methods)?
- Donabedian approach
- Maxwell dimensions
What is the donabedian approach to evaluating health needs (3)?
- Structure - what’s there
- Process - what’s done
- Outcome