public health Flashcards
Is the act good for everyone who will be affected by the act?
Communitarianism/community ethics
Is the act right or wrong in itself, irrespective of benefits for me, or other consequences?
Abiding to “duty of care”
deontology
Whether an action is right or wrong is dependent on the consequences – the action is right if it maximises the greatest positive consequence
Consequentialism/utilitarianism
does the act respect the sanity of life
religious theory
Am I being honest to myself + consistent in my acts?
Professionalism and morals matter most
virtue ethics
4 ethical principles (Beauchamps & Childress)
Autonomy (free will)
Beneficence (do good)
Non-maleficence (do no harm)
Justice (fair distribution of gain/cost)
body as a machine
doesn’t take into account patient
biomedical model
integrating disease and patient factors
biopsychosocial (includes those not included in biomedical)
study of frequency distribution and determinants of disease in a population
epidemiology
epidemiological triangle
vector food environment
prevalence
no. cases disease present in population
no. persons with risk of having disease in the same population
pos predictive value
proportion of those who test positive who actually have disease
neg predictive value
proportion of those who test negative who actually don’t have disease
proportion of those who have disease who are correctly identified as positive test
sensitivity
proportion of those who not have disease that are correctly identified by neg test
specificity
