Revision Session Flashcards
1
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Marx’s definition of health
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The capacity to do productive work
2
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Parsons’ definition of health
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A state of optimum capacity for the effective performance of valued tasks
3
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WHO’s definition of health
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A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
4
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Models of disease
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- Germ theory
- Biomedical model
- Bio-psycho-social model
5
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Medicalisation definition
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Process by which non-medical problems become defined as and treated as medical problems, as a means to control deviance
6
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Armstrong’s model of how people decide to consult the doctor
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- Are my symptoms normal or abnormal
- Should I go to the doctor on THIS occasion
- What else could I do? Self-care?
- Costs vs benefits of seeing the doctor
7
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Barofsky’s functions of self-care
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- Restorative = alleviate illness
- Reactive = alleviate symptoms
- Preventative = prevent disease
- Regulatory = regulate body processes
8
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12 self-management tasks in chronic illness
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- Recognising and responding to symptoms, monitoring symptoms and controlling triggers
- Use medications
- Manage acute episodes and emergencies
- Maintain good nutrition and an appropriate diet
- Maintain adequate exercise
- Not smoking
- Using relaxation and stress reducing techniques
- Interacting appropriately with health care providers
- Seeking information and using community resources
- Adapting work and other role functions
- Communicating with significant others
- Managing the negative emotions and psychological responses to illness
9
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What is paternalism and what does it lead to?
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- The doctor is able to make better decisions than the patient due to their superior medical knowledge
- Leads to “benevolent concealment” of aspects of medical care
10
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Risk vs absolute risk vs relative risk
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- Risk = probability that an event will occur
- AR = risk of developing a disease over a time period
- RR = comparison of risk of developing a disease in 2 different groups
11
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What determines how people perceive risk?
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- Resistance of information from experts
- Cultural traditions
- Failures of knowledge, understanding and memory
- Emotional states affect the meaning of risk and behaviours associated with it
- Attitudes towards information
