Public Health interventions

Question 1

Upstream interventions?
(SPEE)

Answer 1

Seek to address factors that lead to poor health
- typically through action on broader structural, political, economic and environmental determinants

Question 2

Downstream Interventions?

Answer 2

Focus on things like
-individual behaviour change
-treatments for illness.

Question 3

Factors that impact effectiveness of interventions

Answer 3

-Literacy
-Income
-Cultural values
-Access to media and health services.

Question 4

Primary Interventions

Answer 4

aims to prevent disease or injury before it ever occurs

-done by preventing exposures to hazards that cause disease or injury, altering unhealthy or unsafe behaviours that can lead to disease or injury, and increasing resistance to disease or injury should exposure occur.

Question 5

Secondary Interventions

Answer 5

detecting the early stages of disease and intervening before full symptoms develop

– for example, prescribing statins to reduce cholesterol and taking measures to reduce high blood pressure.

Question 6

Tertiary Interventions

Answer 6

helping people manage long term conditions e.g chronic diseases or permanent impairments to improve their ability to function, quality of life and life expectancy.