Public Health Flashcards
What is horizontal equity?
Individuals with the same disease should all be treated the same
What is vertical equity?
People with different needs require different treatment for the same disease, i.e. unequal needs.
Describe the difference between equality and equity
Eqaulity is everyone having the same, equity is what is fair and just
What are the 3 domains of public health?
- Improving and delivering services
- Health protection
- Health promotion
List the stages of the health behaviour model (4)
Believe they are suspetible
Believe there are serious concequences
Believe the action will reduce the chances
Believe the benefits of the action outweight the costs
Relies on the self belief of the individual, doesnt take into account emotion.
Looks at a cue.
What does the transtheoretical model suggest as the process of behaviour change?
Pre contemplation Contemplation Preperation Action Maintenance
Define need
The ability to benefit from an intervention
Define demand
What people ask for
Define supply
What is provided
Name 4 at risk groups
- Migrants
- Asymlum seekers
- Drug users
- Children
- Homeless
What are Bradshaws four taxonomy of needs?
In order for a need to become a reality, i.e. make a real need possible.
- Felt
- Expressed
- Normative
- Comparitive
(all overlap)
What is the inverse care law?
Those with better health tend to access better health care services, when in fact, it is people in poorer health that should be having greater access to these services
What is donabedians framework and what is it used for?
Framework for quality of care
Structure (context in which the care is delivered, e.g. physical facility, equipment, human resources, organisational characteritsitcs such as staff training and pay)
Process (sum of all the actions that make up healthcare, e.g. diagnosis, treatment, preventative care, patient education)
Outcome (the effects of healthcare on patients and populations) - really hard to draw conclusions and links between interventions and outcomes.
framework that can be used for the evaluation of healthcare services, gives infr
What are Maxwells 6 dimensions?
Framework for quality of care
3ES and 3AS
access, acceptability, appropriateness
equity, effectiveness, efficacy
What is a confounding variable?
A variable that unfluences the dependent and independent variable
Give an example of something that is demanded, and supplied, but not needed
Antibitoics for viral illness
Give an example of something that is needed and demanded, but not supplied
Cure for cancer
Cure for chronic disease
Better mental health services
Give an example of something that is needed and supplied, but not demanded
Smoking cessation
Alcohol Cessation
What is tertiary prevention?
Reducing the impacts of a disease and preventing complications
What is donabedians framework and what is it used for?
Framework for quality of care
Structure (context in which the care is delivered, e.g. physical facility, equipment, human resources, organisational characteritsitcs such as staff training and pay)
Process (sum of all the actions that make up healthcare, e.g. diagnosis, treatment, preventative care, patient education)
Outcome (the effects of healthcare on patients and populations) - really hard to draw conclusions and links between interventions and outcomes.
What is the prevention paradox?
If something brings a lot of benefit to the population, then it provides little benefit to each individual
What is lead time bias?
Bias - overestimation of survival.
In the lead, head start.
I.e. Screening detects people earlier even though they have the same outcome.
Name 3 ways you can quantitatively assess a health service
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What are the 3 main biases involved with screening?
- Lead time
- Length time
- Selection
What is a confounding variable?
An unaccounted for variable which also independently affects the outcome