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1
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Define lay beliefs

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Concepts used by non-professionals to explain health and illness

2
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Define lay referral

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Process patients go through when they discuss illness with other lay people who recommend seeing a doctor

3
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Define primary preventions

A

Prevent onset of disease

4
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Examples of primary preventions

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Immunisations, Avoiding exposures, Engaging positive health behaviours

5
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Define secondary preventions

A

Manage disease at an early stage

6
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Examples of secondary prevention

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Screening and monitoring risks

7
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Define tertiary prevention

A

Reduce the effects of established disease

8
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Criticisms of health promotion

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Fear of government monitoring, People lack the ability to change, Enforce negative stereotypes

9
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Describe the prevention paradox

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Health promotions improve health on a population level but not an individual level

10
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Describe issues in assessing health promotion

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Confounding factors, Lag time, and Expensive

11
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Disadvantages to screening

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Takes time and money, Emotional stress

12
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Define lead time bias

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Patients live with the disease for longer due to earlier diagnosis, Appears they live longer

13
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Define length time bias

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Screening is better at detecting slow progressing disease, Screened diseases appear to have a better prognosis but this is not due screening but the nature of the disease

14
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Describe selection bias in the context of screening

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People who go for screening tend to make other positive health choices

15
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Criticisms of screening

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Victim blaming, Government monitoring the population, Targeted at women

16
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Define illness work

A

Management of symptoms

17
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Define everyday life work

A

Maintaining normal life

18
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Define emotional work

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Maintaining emotional well being

19
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Define biographical work

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Challenges faced by how the patient views themself

20
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Define identity work

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Dealing with stigma and how illness defines them

21
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Define stigma

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Negative connotations associated with a condition

22
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Define discreditable stigma

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Disease is not visible

23
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Define discredited stigma

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Disease is visible

24
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Define enacted stigma

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Where discrimination is experienced

25
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Define felt stigma

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Fear of enacted stigma

26
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Define the medical view of disability

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Deviation from the norm

27
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Define the social view of disability

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Failure of society to adjust

28
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State a generic instrument

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EQ-50