Week 1 - Health Screening Flashcards
What is health screening?
It is a rough sorting process. It separates the people who probably do have the condition from those who probably do not. It provides a probability that a person is at risk or risk-free from the condition of interest. Looking for disease early.
What are 5 common medicals condition caught with health screenings?
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Obesity
- Osteoporosis
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 quality assurance system.
Name 4 potential harms with health screenings?
- Overdiagnosis
- False negatives
- False positives
- Diverting health resources - funding
What is health promotion and how is it different than a health screening?
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health.
Health promotion is on the primary process.
Health screening is on the secondary process.
What are 5 topics chiropractors are well suited for teaching health promotions?
- Alcohol abuse
- Dietary guidelines
- Fall prevention
- Weight loss interventions
- Skin cancer prevention
What are 3 benefits of health screenings?
- Reducing severity
- Reducing death
- Catching disease early.
What are some health promotion success in our population?
Skin cancer prevention (Slip Slop Slap)
Smoking – every cigarette is doing you damage
Seatbelts
Random breath testing
HIV
Alcohol use
Pap smears
Breast exams
Colon cancer home testing
What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
Sensitivity is a measure of how good a test is in demonstrating whether the patient really has a condition or not. A high sensitivity test means that it detects the presence of a condition with relatively few indicators.
Specificity is a measure of negativity for those patients who do not have the investigated condition. A highly specific test means that it really rules out a diagnosis if a patient does not have the indicators.
What are 5 approaches to health promotion?
- Medical or preventive
- Behavior change
- Education
- Empowerment
- Social change
What is Primary Prevention in the Medical or Preventative approach?
This approach is aimed at reducing premature deaths (morality) and avoidable diseases (morbidity).
Is the Empowerment Approach a top-down or a bottom-up approach??
Bottom - up approach.
