Week 1 Flashcards
What is a health screening?
Health screening separates people who have a condition from those who do not. It attempts to detect conditions earlier. It is not entirely accurate however it provides a probability of how risk free or at risk a person is in regard to a condition.
What are 5 common medical condition caught with health screenings?
High blood pressure
Diabetes
High cholesterol
Osteoporosis
Obesity
What is one of the most important steps to high quality health screenings?
The most important step is to make sure the screening programme is operating high quality services through a high quality assurance system
Name 4 potential harms with health screenings
Screening tests are not fully accurate.
False positives and negatives will present.
Earlier detection of conditions can lead to overdiagnosis.
Diverting health resources/funds.
What is health promotion and how is it different than a health screening?
Health promotion is an individual taking control over their health and trying to improve it while health screening is informing the individual on potential conditions they may be at risk to. Health promotion is more primary prevention. Health screening is more on the secondary prevention.
What are 5 topics chiropractors are well suited for teaching health promotions?
Fall prevention
Skin cancer prevention
Arthritis pain management advice
Prevention of common spine disorders
Exercise recommendations
What are 3 benefits of health screenings?
Early detection of conditions before they lead to more serious diseases.
Reduces the burden of the disease on an individual and communities.
Improves health outcomes for individuals and their families
What are some health promotion success in our population?
Skin cancer – slip, slop, slap advertisement
Smoking – every cigarette is doing damage to your lungs
Seatbelts
random breath testing
What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
Sensitivity – The proportion of people with a disease who are correctly identified by a positive test result (true positive).
Specificity – The proportion of people without a disease who are correctly identified by a negative test result (true negative). Shows up, probably means you have it.
What are 5 approaches to health promotion?
Medical or preventive
Behaviour change
Education
Empowerment
Social change
what is primary prevention in the medical or preventative approach and examples
Prevention of the onset of disease through risk education.
Stopping smoking
Reducing cholesterol
Using clean water
immunisation
what are the top down approaches
medical or preventative approach
behaviour change
social change
what are the bottom up approaches
empowerment approach
