Public Health: The Doctors Role In Disease Prevention And Health Promotion Flashcards
Three causes of ill health
Infectious disease
Non-communicable disease
Injuries
Largest causes of death?
Non communicable disease
Prevention
Encourage protective clothing
Lobby for safe policies
Signpost to mental health services
Signpost to individualized protection (e.g safe sex)
Infectious disease prevention
Advice to patients (eg safe sex)
Encourage immunizations
Encourage uptake in screening programs
Adhere to safe practices in the work place (eg hand washing)
Non communicable disease
Not passed from person to person
Eg diabetes, cvd…
Biggest killer
89% of all deaths in uk
Largely preventable
Mainly caused by 4 lifestyle factors: smoking, exercise, alcohol, diet
14 units?
6 pints
4 key things to do
Assess health behaviors
Give advice
Counsel on health
Referral to help
Social Prescribing?
Community referral
Referring to local non clinical health
Individual takes more responsibly for own health
Allows people to get more help on factors affecting health
Making every contact count
enables the delivery of consistent and concise health and wellbeing information and encourages individuals to engage in conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
staff across health and care, local authority and voluntary sectors have thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.
social Prescribing
Recognising that people’s health and wellbeing are determined mostly by a range of social, economic and environmental factors, social prescribing seeks to address people’s needs in a holistic way. It also aims to support individuals to take greater control of their own health.
community referral
Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services to support their health and wellbeing.
