Risk Management Flashcards
What are the leading causes of death in the US?
heart disease
cancer
What is primary and secondary?
primary: what do we do to prevent disease from ever happening: immunizations; chloride water in caries
secondary: how do we find disease before it becomes symptomatic so we can increase probability of life
tertiary: patient already has the disease and you want to decrease the probability of more disease
What is preventative medicine?
focuses on individuals; public health focuses on population
Why do I need risk management?
it is a way to prevent????
1980
CDC developed its first 31 questions risk assessment tool to compute adult risk
Touching the patient????
has value
USPSTF
look at the science behind preventative and evidence-based medicine
-members come from fields of review of existing peer-reviewed evidence and ??
AHRQ
-government agency that provides administrative support to the task force
ACA
-required that insured companies cover the recommendations from the task force
What are the determinants of population health?
- genes and biology
- health behaviors
- medical care
- total ecology
- social/societal characteristics
- longevity is more closely related to zip code than genetics
- where you live is representation of other characteristics (education, income)
Health risk assessment
- based on a questionnaire
- risk factors combined with epidemiology studies with mortality
- individual’s risk is compared to???
Framingham Society
-under the direction of National Heart Institute they collected data of individuals in Framingham
-those pts are still being followed
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Process of HRA
summed by a computer algorithm
What are some ???????taken?
????
What are the advantages of????
motivates an individual to make changes in their lifestyle
