HES Flashcards
(163 cards)
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What is an opportunity cost?
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Benefit that could have been attained if treatment for that was provided
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What are the main types of economic evaluation?
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- Cost consequence
- Cost benefit
- Cost effectiveness
- Cost utility
- Cost minimisation
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What principle does cost consequence apply?
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Cost 1- Benefit 1 Cost 2 - Benefit 2
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What is cost benefit?
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How much more are you willing to pay for a benefit
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What is cost effectiveness?
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- Using ICER (Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio)
- Difference in cost and benefits between 2 methods
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What is cost utility?
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Measured using QALY (Quality adjusted life years)
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What is cost minimisation?
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If 2 treatments provided the same benefit, cheaper treatment option is chosen
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What is marginal benefit?
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Increase in benefit if there was an increased production by one additional unit
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What is marginal cost?
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Increased in cost if there was an increased in production by one additional unit
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What is equity?
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Maximisation of benefit for the money eg a poorer person will have more healthcare needs so they should be given care so that they can be at the same level as a wealthy person
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Which people are QALY usually high?
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- Lower social class
2. Old people
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What is the problem with cost effectiveness method?
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- Measured in natural units so its difficult to compare between multiple outcomes
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What is the advantage of cost effectiveness method?
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Measured as part of the clinical try and it is clearly understood
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What does QALY value of 1,0 and -1 mean?
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1- Healthy
0 - Dead
-1- Worse off than dead
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What is measured in QALY?
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- Length of life
- Quality of life
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How is the quality of life data obtained?
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Questionnaires, health state description, published values in literature
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What does the questionnaire Euro-QoL use?
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- Mobility
- Anxiety/depression
- Self- care
- Pain/discomfort
- Usual activities
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What are the problems associated with QALY’s?
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- Insensitivity of Questionnaire
- End of life treatments
- Discrimination
- Family carer benefits
19
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What are the costs due to ill health to the NHS?
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Direct - Social/healthcare, non-healthcare (OTC, Transport, paid carers, private health care)
Indirect - Lost of productivity, benefits and allowance for sick
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What are the centres for NICE?
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- Health technology
- Public health
- Clinical practice
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Who make up the majority/ least in NICE?
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- Majority: Clinicians
- Least: Manufacturer
22
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Who make up the centre for public health?
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- Topic experts
- Core members
- Community members
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Based on what criteria are screening programmes approved by the National Screening Committee?
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- Natural history of disease
- Appropriate, suitable test/examination
- Approved treatment
- Facilities for diagnosis
- Important health problem
- Agreed policy on who to treat as patients
- Economically balanced
- Continuing process
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What are the 3 types of distribution systems?
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- Hierarchial: Bottom nothing top most
- Capitalist: Price determines how goods are distributed
- Free market (Thatcher): No state intervention, prices of goods are determined by open market
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What is the Keynes Welfare System?
Antithesis of the free market so acknowledges the role of the state to invest.
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What does the state need to invest in the Keynes Welfare System?
- Financial benefits
- State education
- National health service
- Public housing initiatives
- Employment creation/development
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What is the Beveridge plan?
Fight against giants of want
1. Ignorance
2. Idleness
3. Squalor
4. Disease
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When was NHS invented?
1948
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What was the purpose of NHS?
To provide an equitable distribution of health services accountable to nation to give them a sense of collective purpose and mission to promote the health of the nation
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What is the concept of justice?
Treating people equally while understanding that there is an existing inequality
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What are the concepts of justice?
1. Desert
2. Maximising utility
3. Satisfying need
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What does justice as desert mean?
Treated equally based on how deserving they are
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What does noble failure mean?
Someone has tried really hard to adapt this good behaviour but failed for whatever reason
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What does justice as maximising utility mean?
Utilitarianism: Max benefit for most people
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What does justice as satisfying need mean?
People with least money and most healthcare need are given priority.
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What is the problem associated with justice as a satisfying need?
Differentiating what is a need and a want
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What is the fair innings approach?
Someone who has had fair innings will get lower priority compared to someone who has not reached societal norm.
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What is the problem with fair innings approach?
Old person need is neglected as young person is prioritised
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What is the estimated cost per QALY approved by NICE?
25K pounds per QALY
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What are the parties involved in judicial review?
- Government: Secretary of State
- Parliament: Sovereign to satisfy legal need
- Judiciary: Acts to check on government
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ART 2
Right to life
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ART 3
Against inhuman and degrading treatment
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ART 8
Right to privacy
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ART 12
Right to found a family
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ART 13
Prohibition against dicrimination
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What are the 9 protected characteristics by single equality act 2010?
- Gender
- Age
- Race
- Religion/belief
- Sexual orientation
- Gender reassignment
- Disability
- Maternity/pregnancy
- Marriage/civil partnership
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If patient is unable to decide for themselves, who can be given the right to based on Mental Capacity Act 2005?
- Patient nominee
- Court
- Doctor
- Previous wishes of patient
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In what ways are autonomy given to the patient?
- Advanced directives
- Substituted decision making
- Court of protection
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What is the concept of liberalism in terms of safeguarding patients rights?
- Purpose to support and not restrict/control patient
- Assuming patient has capacity
- All practical steps are taken to help
- Unwise decisions are not equated to incapacity
- Least restrictive option is chosen
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What is lack of capacity?
Inability to make decision for self either due to impairment or disturbance to function or mind or brain.. This could either be temporary or permanent
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What is the test for capacity?
- Understand
- Retain
- Weigh info
- Communicate decision
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Why do you review capacity?
- It is decision specific
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What can cause temporary incapacity?
- Alcohol
- Unconscious
- Drugs
- Accident
- Concussion
- Pain/medication
- Hypoglycaemia
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What are Advance Refusals?
Decision can be made at any point to refuse certain treatments in the future
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What should the doctor do if they suspect presence of an advanced refusal?
Must make reasonable efforts to find out what it says time permitting but can act in emergencies
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What is the lasting powers of attorney?
- Patient can have a substituted person to make decisions for them
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What are the criteria for lasting powers of attorney?
- >18 years old
- Registered and certified by an independent person
- Donor could place restriction on powers
- Donee cannot appoint successor
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What is the court of protection?
New court to deal with all areas for decision making for the incapacitated and has all the powers of the high court.
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What powers does the court of protection have?
- One off declarations
- Substituted decisions
- Appoint deputies
- Call for reports
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What is eugenics?
Set of practices and beliefs that aims to improve genetic quality of life
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How were the weak left behind?
- Sterilisation
- Birth control
- Marital regulation
- Segregation of the unfit
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What is the tragedy charity model?
- Depicts people as victims of circumstances who deserve pitu
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Who uses the tragedy charity model?
Charities
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What should the funds raised for disabled by charities used for?
- empower disabled people
| - full integration into the society as equals
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What is the key aim of the medical model for disability?
Disability results from a person's individual limitations and not associated with social and geographical environemtns
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What is the difference between impairment, disability and handicap?
Impairment: Physical or physiological impairment
Disability: Inability to perform a normal task due to a restriction
Handicap: Any disadvantage that limits the person from fulfilment of a role
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What are the main points of the social model?
- Disability is a consequence of environment, social and attitudinal barriers
- Loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in normal community on an equal level
- Stems from a failure of society to adjusts to needs
- If you remove this barriers and give disabled people equal opportunity, it will improve their lives.
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What are the criticisms of the social model?
- Disability can be eradicated (cannot be)
| - Unable to understand disabled people do have restrictions so may not be able to perform a task like a normal person
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What are the main points of the biopsychosocial model?
- Based on the social model but recognises elements of the medical model
- Realises that it cannot solve all the problems of impairment but can change discrimination against it
- Recognise inability of disabled to adapt to the demand of the society
- Stems from failure of society to take the needs of the disabled into account
- Focuses on limitations, capabilities and potential
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What are the key values of human rights?
- Fairness
- Equality
- Dignity
- Respect
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What is the definition of learning disability?
- Impairment of intellectual functioning
- Consequences in terms of severe social functioning
- Onset before physical maturity
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What categories of people do not come into the context of learning disability?
- Develop cognitive impairments in later life
| - Specific impairments such as dyslexia
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What is the difference between IQ test and adaptive behaviour?
- IQ test is to recognise special education help whereas adaptive behaviour is a measure of ability to perform daily tasks
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What are the problems associated with IQ test?
- Underperformance due to additional disability
- Narrow range of skills
- Invalid application for learning disability
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What are the problems with adaptive behaviour test?
- Ignore the extent of support from carer
- Variability in performance
- Cultural difference
- Lack of opportunities
- Core skills change over time
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What are the 2 types of normalisation?
1: Scandinavian approach which emphasises the importance for the disabled person to attain adulthood by overcoming ordinary life challenges. Compensatory services available for disabled person to overcome these challenges.
2: US Wolfsenberg: Ease at which disabled people are assigned to a disrespectful label because of the separateness of their appearance, environment or way of life. Specialist services which identify disabled people as different but assigned social roles- Social role valorisation
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What are the prevention strategies for learning disability?
Pre-conception: Prenatal PKU screening
Prenatal: Folate therapy, reduce alcohol consumption
Perinatal: Optimal obstetric and neonatal care
Postnatal: Health education, reduce accidents, vaccination
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What are the causes of high mortality in people with learning disability?
- Neurological disorders (epilepsy)
- Disorders associated with the syndrome (dementia)
- Poor lifestyle
- Poor access to healthcare
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What is the definition of visual impairment?
- Inability to see
| - Inability to see clearly
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What is visual acuity?
Ability to see detail
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What does the top and bottom letter mean? 6/6
Top- distance seen
| Bottom - row of letters seen (5,6,9,12,18,24,36,60)
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What are the definitions of blind and partial sight?
Blind: 3/60
| Partial sight: 6/60 or 6/18 if field reduced
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What is the certificate given to sight impaired people?
Certificate of vision impairment
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What are the main causes of sight loss? Give some other examples as well
- Age related macula degeneration
- Glaucoma
- Hereditary retinal disorders
- Diabetes retinopathy
- Cataract
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What are the 3 types of refractive error? What do they each mean?
- Myopia: Short sighted so cannot see far objects
- Hypermetropia: Long sighted
- Astigmatism: Distorted vision from an irregular curved cornea
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What are the possible ways to prevent sight loss?
- National Programmes to control or prevent impairment
- To increase number of eye care services integrated within the primary or secondary healthcare team.
- Campaigns to raise awareness
- International partnerships
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What is trachoma?
Eye disease caused by infection with the bacterium chlamydia trachomatis.
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What is the typical description of a blind person?
- Female
- Possibly widowed
- Age related macula degeneration
- Also has hearing problems, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes
- Cannot read, write or recognise faces
- Still retain her independence
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What does a guide dog do?
- Walk in a straight line on a pavement unless there is an obstacle
- Not to turn corners unless told to do so
- Judge height and width so owners do not bump their head or shoulder
- Deal with traffic
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What are the help available for visual impaired people?
- Government benefits
- Eye Clinic Liaison Office (eclo)
- Social workers
- Voluntary organisations
- Low vision aids such as magnifiers
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What are the benefits of registering as visually impaired?
- Disability living allowance
- Reduction in TV license
- TAX
- Reduced fees on public transport
- Parking concessions
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What are the different categories of deafness and how are they divided?
- Moderate: 40-70dB
- Severe: 71-95dB
- Profound >95dB
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What are the main causes of deafness?
- Congenital due to genetic defects, infection, conductive malformation, ototoxic drugs (gentamycin)
- Acquired: Drugs, Meniere's, Tumour, Infection, Loud noise, obstruction, trauma
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What are the basic principles of the medical models of deafness?
- Caused by a developmental deficiency or disease
- To be cured or corrected by medication/surgery
- Individual's adjustment/behaviour would lead to effective cure
- Aim is to teach deaf child to speak
- Responsibility of dead people to make themselves understood
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What are the main points of the social model of deafness?
- Disability is a socially created problem
- Communication with deaf barrier because people do not want to use sign language and thus leading to isolation for those who are deaf
- Society caused this due to lack of awareness and opportunity
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What is the cultural model of deafness?
- BSL is their preferred language as see themselves as part of social, cultural and linguistic community
- Do not see themselves as disabled
- Shared social beliefs
- Not experienced a loss of hearing so positive attitude
- Affects mental health because of social disadvantage
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What are the do's when speaking to a deaf person?
- Speak clearly normal speed
- Minimal background noise
- Talk face to face
- Gain attention by tapping or waving
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How to use a sign language interpreter?
- Check interpreter qualified
- Send information before meeting
- No background noise
- Deaf person can see interpreter
- Interpreter is neutral and not offer any opinions
- Interpreter need to interpret everything said
- May ask for repetition
- Allow for time for deaf person to respons
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How to contact deaf person?
- Mobile
- Textphone
- Fax
- E-mail
- Videophone
- Skype
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What is a text relay?
- Uses minicom to type message to operator who reads to hearing person
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How does WHO define health?
A state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
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What are the key components of healthcare system?
- Continually improve health status of an individual, family and communities
- Defence against health threats
- Protection against financial consequences of ill health
- Equitable access to people centred care
- Assisting people to participate in decision making process regarding their health
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What is public health?
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Science and art of
- Preventing disease
- Prolonging life
- Promoting health
through organised efforts
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What is the difference between individual and population healthcare?
- Different needs identified
- Delivered and evaluated
- Doctor advocates for different people
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What is the healthcare continuum?
Primary prevention - secondary prevention- tertiary prevention - end of life care
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What factors contribute to the changing healthcare requirements?
- Increase in population size
- Increase in ageing population
- Increase in life expectancy
- Increase prevalence of chronic disease
- Supply/demand
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What is the new model of healthcare?
- Integration of services
| - Patient centred care
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What are the radical changes to healthcare provision due to Health and Social Care Act 2012?
- Clinically led commissioning
- Increased patient involvement
- Focus on Public Health
- Focus on quality of healthcare
- Allowing healthcare market competition in the best interests of patients
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What is NHS 3 key strands to delivering quality care?
- Patient safety
- Clinical effectiveness
- Patient experience
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What are the 2 overarching quality outcome for public health?
- Increase life expectancy
| - Increase quality of life ( decrease different in quality years and life expectancy)
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What is the difference between prevention and promotion?
Prevention is more disease focused and uses a medical model whereas promotion is a holistic approach to widen the benefits to the whole population by enabling people to have control over their health
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What are the 3 approaches to health promotion?
- Medical
- Socioenvironmental
- Behavioural
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What is the difference between high risk and population approach to health promotion?
- High risk only targets high risk group whereas population targets the whole population
- Large benefits seen among high risk group but small changes seen at individual level for population approach however as a whole, substantial benefit for population approach
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What consists of in the interventional ladder?
1. Do nothing
2. Provide information
3. Enable choice
4. Disincentives
5. Incentives
6. Change default policy
7. Restrict choice
8. Eliminate choice
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What are methods of health promotion?
- Health communication via leaflets, adverts
- Health education
- Self help eg alcoholic anonymous
- Organisational change
- Community development
- Policy/legislation
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What are the role of doctors?
For patients: Lifestyle advice, referral, advocacy, empower patients to manage chronic disease
For healthcare: Participate in public health research, contribute to national reports
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What is the role of screening?
Identify apparently health people who are at an increased risk of disease
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How do you calculate sensitivity?
a/(a+c)
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How do you calculate specificity
b/(b+d)
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How do you calculate positive predictive test?
a/(a+b)
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How do you calculate negative predictive test?
c/(c+d)
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What happens when you screen a low risk population?
High false positive
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What does sensitivity tell us?
How good a test is at picking up disease
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What does specificity tell us?
How good a test is at excluding disease
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What do each population gain/lose from screening?
1. True positive: Disease picked up early so can be treated immediately but if no treatment then is it worth knowing? Will you be labelled
2. False positive: Need to emotionally go through more tests. Hazards of further diagnostic tests and costs
3. False negative: Give them false reassurance and delays diagnosis
4. True negative: Hazard and costs of screening
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What is the function of a National Screening Committee?
Advise ministers on all aspect of screening policy, evaluate screenings and research evidence
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What are the non NSC approved screening programmes?
- Prostate cancer
- Chlamydia screening
- Health check every 5 years above 40
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What are the types of bias that could arise from screening?
1. Volunteer bias
2. Lead time bias
3. Length time
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What is volunteer bias?
People who do attend screening are more concerned for their health so possibly have better health
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What is lead time bias?
Disease is diagnosed at an earlier stage (pre-symptomatic) so makes it seem like patient lived longer from point of diagnosis but no change to course of progression of disease
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What is length time bias?
- Diseases with long pre-clinical phase more likely to be detected and usually has better prognosis because it is less aggressive.
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What is the definition of tertiary prevention?
- Reduce impairments
- Promote patient's adjustments
- Improve function/minimise impact
- Prevent complication
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What are the key characteristics of tertiary prevention?
- Patient has an established disease
- Focus on intervention of either improving function or preventing gradual decline
- Intervention begins after acute disease
- Long timescale
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What are the types of tertiary prevention?
- Clinical
- Collaborative: Physiotherapy, occupational, psychologist
- Social: Minimise disability
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What are the primary, secondary and tertiary interventions for stroke?
Primary - Smoking/alcohol
Secondary - FAST, TIA management
Tertiary - Rehabilitation
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How is the process of stroke rehabilitation? What programme is this?
- Early in the hospital: Mobilisation and functional positioning
- Community: Early discharge and long term rehabilitation
National Stroke Strategy
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What are the facets of rehabilitation?
- Aerobic training
- Arm re-education
- Orthoses
- Positioning
- Self management
- Task training
- Splinting
- Assessment
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What are the phases in cardiac rehabilitation?
I: Counselling/assessment
II: Post discharge support
III: Structured exercise programme
IV: Long term maintenance
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What are the components in the tertiary prevention shopping list?
- Rehabilitation
- CBT
- Medication Adherence strategies
- Mental health relapse prevention
- Dietary advice
- Routine review
- Self management plans
- Community support groups
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What is palliative, supportive and end of life care?
- Palliative care: Relief their suffering and support them through tough times
- Supportive: Support patient and their family members to cope with the condition and treatment from pre-diagnosis to bereavement services
- End of life care is a mixture of palliative and supportive care so that their needs are identified and met through that last phase.
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What are the components of holistic approach to palliative care?
- Physical
- Psychological
- Social
- Spiritual
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What are the trajectories of death?
1. Sudden - Car accident
2. Well then sudden decline- terminal disease
3. Better then decline then better - Organ failure
4. Slow decline- Old age
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What is the difference between spectacular and subtacular?
1. Spectacular- Sudden traumatic loss of life, high priority in A&E
2. Subtacular- Management of chronic disease, neglected in A&E
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What are the concerns over care?
- Poor communication
- Lack of recognition of expert family
- Lack of continuity of care
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What are the End of Life Care Policies in present?
- Gold Standard Framework
- Liverpool Care pathway no longer used
- NHS EOL strategy 2008
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What are the criteria to initiate a Liverpool Care Pathway based on recommendations given?
- Senior clinician
- Cannot do it out of hours
- Urgent call to nurse/midwifery for advice
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What is an Advanced Statement and Advanced Refusal?
- Advanced Statement is to formalise what patient/family wish to happen to them later in their disease. It is not legally binding
- Advanced Refusal is formalising what patient/family do not wish to happen and it is legally binding
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How can patients play a distinct role in their healthcare?
- Understanding cause of disease and factors that influence it
- Self diagnosis and treating minor self-limiting condition
- Selecting most appropriate treatment for acute conditions
- Managing treatment and taking medications
- Monitoring symptoms and effects of it
- Being aware of safety issues
- Adopting healthy behaviour
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What is health literacy?
Ability to make sound health decisions in the context of everyday life
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What are the objectives of health literacy?
- Provide information and education
- Encourage appropriate and effective use of healthcare
- Tackle health inequalitites
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What is self-efficacy?
Patient's belief that they have the capacity to learn a perform a specific behaviour, confidence and ability is the key.
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What are some patient empowerment techniques?
- Coaching
- Prompt cards
- Diaries
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What is the function of Healthwatch?
Ensure patient involvement in NHS planning
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Define carer
Designated person who provides long term help to a disabled person usually a family member of their immediate family but now extends to social care worker
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What do family carers receive from the government?
Carer's Allowance or manage social security payments such as Attendance allowance
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Who are care providers?
- Family
- NHS
- Local authorities
- Charities
- Private sector
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What are the problems with staff care?
- Abuse/neglect
- System of abuse in contracting system which forces down expenditure leading to poor pay, difficulty recruiting staff and unfilled vacancies.
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What are the problems associated with the term carer?
- Families see it as ordinary obligations and activities of family life
- Support is reciprocal
- Carer suggests disabled person is in permanent need of attention
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What is the impact of care by spouse/partners?
- Feeling exposed and vulnerable
- Changes in employment and income
- Change in relationship and family responsibilities
- 24 hour on call
- Stress greatest in the early stages and towards end of life.
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What is the impact on family life for caring for a disabled child?
- Single parents, poverty
- More time consuming and costly
- Disproportionate effects on those with low income
- Stigmatisation
- Burden
- Family are diverse and capable of adaptation to unforeseen events
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What is occupational health?
Discipline that focuses on effects of work on health and influence of pre-existing health problems on the capacity to work
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What are the core services provided by occupational health team?
- Prevention
- Timely intervention
- Rehabilitation
- Health assessment
- Promotion of well being
- Teach and train staff to support health and well being
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What consists of pre-work assessment?
- Health status
- Job requirement
- Functional assessment
- Restrictions
- Adaptiations
