Public health deck 3 Flashcards
What are the 3 domains of public health?
- Health promotion
- Health protection
- Health improvement
Give an example of health promotion?
Looks at interventions e.g. immunizations, smoking cessation, screening
Give an example of health protection:
Putting measures in place to control infectious diseases e.g. barrier nursing on covid wards
What are the aims of health service improvements?
Ensure that there is delivery of organized, safe and high quality services
What is health psychology?
Role of psychological factors in cause progression and consequence of health and illness - promote healthy behaviour and prevent illness
What are 3 types of health behaviour?
- Health behaviour
- Illness behaviour
- Sick role behaviour
Define health behaviour:
Aimed at preventing disease e.g. eating healthily
Define illness behaviour:
Aimed at seeking remedy e.g. going to doctor
Define sick role behaviour:
Behaviour actively aimed at getting oneself better i.e. taking medication
What is a health damaging behaviour?
Behaviour that will damage health:
e.g. smoking, alcohol consumption, high risk sexual behaviour
What are health promoting behaviours?
Behaviour that will seek and maintain health: e.g. exercise, eating healthily, having vaccines
What is compliance?
Extent to which a patient’s behaviour coincides with medical advice - assumes doctor knows best
What are x3 factors that effect compliance?
- SE of medication
- Patients’ perception of risk
- Is patient asymptomatic?
- SE status
Give 3 examples of population level interventions:
- Public health campaigns e.g. Movember, Change4Life.
- Screening e.g. cervical smear
- Immunization e.g. MMR
What is unrealistic optimism?
Individual continues to practise health damaging behaviour due to an inaccurate perception of risk and susceptibility
What factors can influence someone’s perception of risk?
- Lack of personal experience with a problem
- Belief that it may be preventable by personal action
- Belief that it is unlikely to happen to an individual
- Belief problem is infrequent
- Other: SE factors, stress, age, cultural variability