Public health

Question 1

What is primary disease prevention?

Answer 1

Stopping a disease before it starts

Question 2

What is secondary disease prevention?

Answer 2

Stopping a disease from being as bad as it could be

Question 3

What is tertiary disease prevention?

Answer 3

Stopping later complications from developing

Question 4

What are the 5 options for reducing the impact of CVD?

Answer 4

Reduce risks in the environment
Reduce risk factors in individuals
Find disease as early as possible
Treat disease at whatever stage as effectively as possible
Reduce the impacts of ongoing CVD on individual’s wellbeing

Question 5

How can diseases be found as early as possible?

Answer 5

Screening programs
Make the public and health serve alert to risk factors
Listen to the patient

Question 6

Give 9 modifiable risk factors for CVD

Answer 6

Smoking
Dyslipideamia
Raised blood pressure
Diabetes mellitus 
Obesity
Dietary factors
Thrombogenic factors
Lack of exercise
Excess alcohol intake

Question 7

Give 4 non-modifiable risk factors for CVD

Answer 7

Personal history of CVD
Family history of CVD
Age
Gender

Question 8

What defines high risk?

Answer 8

Over 20% chance of the even in 10 years

Question 9

What 9 pieces of information would you gather from a patient to assess the risk of CVD?

Answer 9

Age, sex, postcode, family history of CHD/stroke, diabetes, cigarettes smoked daily, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol