Public Health Flashcards
What allows asylum seekers with denied claims to access housing
Section 4
What is section 95 and 98
95 allows someone who has claimed asylum housing and financial support
98 allows support whilst waiting for decision on 95 application
When should public health be notified of meningitis
Andy POSSIBLE case
What guidelines for prescription contraceptive to under 16s
Fraser guidelines
Sensitivity definition
Proportion of people with the disease correctly identified
Specificity definition
The number of people without the disease correctly excluded
Advantages of cohort study
Good for common and multiple outcomes
Establish disease risk and confounders
Less risk of recall bias
Disadvantages of cohort studies
Time consuming and expensive
Needs large sample size
People drop out
obtain hospital admissions data and linked mortality data on all patients operated on in the previous three years and calculate one-year survival rates in the two groups.
what study
cohort study
When discussing public health interventions, a previous study shows that if all male British doctors wore their car seat belts on every journey throughout their working lives, then for one life thereby saved there would be about 400 who always take that preventive precaution. 399 would have worn a seat belt every day for 40 years without benefit to their survival.
whats term describes this
prevention paradox
Leadership styles
Laissez faire
Transactional
Transformational
Never event definition
A serious, largely preventable patient safety incident that should never happen with appropriate safety measures
4 types of error
System error
Poor team working error
Lack of skill
Fixation error
2 models for errors occuring
Swiss cheese model
Three bucket model
