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Health Screening Flashcards

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What is the definition of health screening?

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A process of identifying apparent healthy individuals who may have an increased risk of a particular health condition/ disease.

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Why do we utilise health screening?

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Early recognition of health conditions and risk mitigation to encourage better health outcomes.

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Is health screening compulsory?

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No

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How many types of health screening are there?

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3

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What types of health screening is there?

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  • Stratified
  • Population
  • Targeted
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What is a stratified health screening?

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  • Individual bases, only happens if there is a genetic risk, symptoms
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What is a targeted screening?

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  • Identifies people who are at a higher risk of a specific condition beyond age and sex (such as health behaviours like sex workers, smokers etc)
  • Medium group size demographic
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What is a population screening?

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  • Reaches out to populations within a certain group who may be at an increased risk to a condition / disease.
    (E.G over 25 females- Smears)
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What health

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What health screening programmes are offered in the UK?

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  • Pregnancy: Foetal Anomaly Screening Program (FASP)
  • Newborns: Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP)
  • Young people and adults: Cervical Screening Programme (CSP)
  • Female: Breast Screening Programme (BSP)
  • Male: Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP)
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What is the benefits of health screening?

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  • Reduce cost to NHS
  • Reduce use of toxic treatments
  • Reduce risk of certain conditions
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What are the stages of screening?

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  • Identify
  • Invite/ Inform
  • Test and Screen
  • Results
  • Diagnoses
  • Treatment
  • Evaluation
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How many health screening programmes are there in the UK according to the NHS & PHE?

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11

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How many conditions do the 11 health screenings cover?

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36

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What is a main method for evaluating screening programmes?

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  • Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT)
  • Case Control Studies
  • Time Trend Studies
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Why do we evaluate screening programmes?

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To see if a screening programme effectively reduces the risk of serious health outcomes, therefore providing a benefit to the population

17
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True or False: Health screening diagnoses health conditions.

18
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True or False: Health screening is I’ll always provide accurate results

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What is a false negative test?

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  • Test that shows the person is not at risk, when they are at risk.
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What is a false positive test?

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A test that shows a person is at risk, when they are not.

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What are the four ethical principles of health screening?

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  • Improve health and wellbeing
  • Treat people with respect
  • Promote equality and inclusion
  • Use public resources fairly and proportionately
22
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How many informed choice principles are there?

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What are the informed choice principles?

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  • Personal informed choice
  • Evidence based information
  • Timeliness of information
  • Opportunity for discussion
  • Respect for choice
  • Accessibility to everyone
  • User involvement
  • Consistency of information

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