Public Health Flashcards
1
Q
What is primary prevention?
A
reducing the incidence in a population
2
Q
What is secondary prevention?
A
detection and treatment of pre-symptomatic disease
3
Q
What is tertiary prevention?
A
reducing incidence/recurrences of chronic incapacity among those with symptomatic disease
4
Q
What does the ASSIGN algorithm calculate?
A
absolute CVD risk - used in Scotland
5
Q
What does ASSIGN stand for?
A
Age Sex Smoking Systolic BP Total cholesterol HDL cholesterol Family history of premature CVD Diagnosis of diabetes Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis Deprivation
6
Q
What is absolute risk?
A
% chance of an individual having a CVD event over a given period of time
7
Q
What is the relative risk?
A
risk of someone of having a CVD event compared to someone else
