Rose Flashcards
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Primary prevention
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Methods to avoid occurrence of disease.[6] Most population-based health promotion efforts are type
2
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Secondary prevention
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Methods to diagnose and treat existent disease in early stages before it causes significant morbidity.
3
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Tertiary prevention
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Methods to reduce negative impact of existent disease by restoring function and reducing disease-related complications
4
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what is high risk approach
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focus on those that are sick
5
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Benefits of High Risk Strategy (5)
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- The intervention is tailored to the individual!
- Subject motivation (person is more willing to take doctor’s advice)!
- Physician motivation!
- Cost-effective use of resources!
- Benefit: risk ratio is favourable (especially if the intervention has some
side effects)
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Neg. of high risk strategies
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- Difficulties with screening!
a. It’s expensive!
b. The people most likely to go get screened are often least at risk!
c. Can cause undue worry/harm in ‘borderline’ patients who don’t fully
and might never fit disease criteria! - It is palliative and temporary, not radical (ie. Does not seek to change cause
of disease but just to identify people susceptible to the causes)! - Limited potential
7
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what is population strategy
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tries to shift the entire population on the risk curve
8
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Benefits of Population Strategy
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- It is radical (attempts to remove cause of disease)!
- Large potential for population!
- Behaviourally appropriate (changes social norms)!
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Limitations of Population Strategy
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- Small benefit to individual!
- Poor motivation of subject!
- Poor motivation of physician !
- Benefit: risk ratio worrisome