Social and Behavioural Sciences Flashcards

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5 waves of public health

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  • Culture of health
  • Social determinants of health
  • Lifestyle related disease (clinical)
  • Biomedical antibiotics and early vaccines
  • Structural clear water and sewers
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Population

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  • Group of people with the same shared characteristics
  • Shared social and environmental influence
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How can pharmacists adress social and behavioural issues

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  • Culturally competent
  • Promoting diversity in the pharmacy workforce
  • Providing assistance to patients.
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Screening

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Targeted to unique needs of a community; an example is screening for HIV

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Social determinants

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Conditions in which individuals are born, live, work, learn, play, and age that affect health, risks, functioning, and outcomes

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Examples of SDOH

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  • Economic stability
  • Education, social and community context
  • Health care accessibility environment
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Area of social discriminants in health

Economic stability

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  • Connection between finantial resources and health
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Area of social discriminants in health

Neigbourhood and built environment

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  • Connection between residential location and health
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Area of social discriminants in health

Social and community context

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  • Connection between health and how patiens learn work and play
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Area of social discriminants in health

Healthcare acess and quality

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  • Connection between health and acess to care insurance coverage and insurace literacy
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Area of social discriminants in health

Education acess and quality

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  • Connection between health and education
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Effect of those that have a lower lower socioeconomic backgrounds

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Higher exposure to risk factors for certain diseases

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Housing instability

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Poorer reported health and disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic households more than Whites based on rent cost burdens

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Lack of adequate nutrition

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Have adverse effects on growth and development throughout life but more specifically during pregnancy and childhood

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Role of in adressing SDOH

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  • Influence outcomes associated with SDOH through screening and intervention methods that focus on medication adherence and addressing social barriers
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Covid-19 preventative measures

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  • Social distancing that included mandatory wearing of face masks
  • limiting of contacts outside of one’s household home-working and testing and tracing methods
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Social and psycological factors in ethnic minorities

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Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are disproportionately affected by COVID-19

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Preventive behaviours Covid-19

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  • Higher rates of infection and fatality in BAME than in White British people.
  • Socio-economic status, living conditions and educational attainment or greater occupational exposure to the virus
  • BAME people were more likely than White people to find it difficult to follow restrictions put in place by the government and that they were less likely to say that information about coronavirus was very clear
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Factors predicting preventive behaviours

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  • Perceived own risk of COVID-19 infection
  • Fear of COVID-19; and awareness of CPB guidance and trust in the source of that guidance
20
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Tobacco control

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  • Reduction of tobacco and smoking related diseases
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Tobacco control intervention

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  • Informing the population of the risks
  • Providing evidence-based stop smoking services to support people attempting to go smoke free
  • Providing a national accessible training programme for practitioners
  • Increasing tobacco taxes
  • Banning advertising
  • Banning smoking in public places and indoors
  • Requiring plain packaging.
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Pharmacists tobacco control intervention

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  • No Smoking Day
  • Stoptober
  • Brief opportunistic advice from pharmacists provision of stop-smoking suppor
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Obesity Control

Preventative population level approaches

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  • Soft drinks industry levy, improving the nutrient content of food and drink at the point of purchase
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Obesity Control

Curative secondary prevention services

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Family and adult weight management services

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Role of pharmacist on obesity control

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  • Refer adults living with obesity to the 12-week online NHS weight management programme
  • Programme within 10 days of visiting their local pharmacy, with support for some people including one-to-one coaching from a weight loss expert.
  • Adults living with obesity plus hypertension or diabetes will qualify for the service