Screening Flashcards
What is primordial prevention
Target population and focus on social and environmental intervention e.g. improving housing, ban indoor smoking
What is primary prevention
Target population or individual, prevent disease before emerging, target healthy people e.g. sunscreen, smoking cessation
What is secondary prevention
Target individuals with subclinical diseases to catch them early e.g. screening programs for cancer, dental checks
What is tertiary prevention
Target clinical and outcome stages, reduce severity and complications e.g. stroke rehab
What is quartenary prevention
Target patients at risk of over medicalisation -prevent harmful medical intervention
Screening principles
It must be an important problem, treatable, have a suitable test which is acceptable to the population
Screening tests
Detect potential for disease, large number of people at risk, simple and not harmful, high sensitivity, suspicion of disease
Screening aims
To reduce mortality
Diagnostic tests
Establish presence of disease, high specificity, definite diagnosis
Screening program flow diagram
Identify population, give information, test, referral of positive cases, diagnosis, treatment, reporting of outcomes
Four types of screening
Population based, selective, multifaceted, opportunistic
Population based screening
Done systematically on the whole population
Selective screening
Targets particular subset of population
Multifaceted screening
More than one test
Opportunistic screening
During routine healthcare checks e.g. blood pressure
