Patients Flashcards
(28 cards)
Define lay beliefs
Concepts used by non-professionals to explain health and illness
Define lay referral
Process patients go through when they discuss illness with other lay people who recommend seeing a doctor
Define primary preventions
Prevent onset of disease
Examples of primary preventions
Immunisations, Avoiding exposures, Engaging positive health behaviours
Define secondary preventions
Manage disease at an early stage
Examples of secondary prevention
Screening and monitoring risks
Define tertiary prevention
Reduce the effects of established disease
Criticisms of health promotion
Fear of government monitoring, People lack the ability to change, Enforce negative stereotypes
Describe the prevention paradox
Health promotions improve health on a population level but not an individual level
Describe issues in assessing health promotion
Confounding factors, Lag time, and Expensive
Disadvantages to screening
Takes time and money, Emotional stress
Define lead time bias
Patients live with the disease for longer due to earlier diagnosis, Appears they live longer
Define length time bias
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
Describe selection bias in the context of screening
People who go for screening tend to make other positive health choices
Criticisms of screening
Victim blaming, Government monitoring the population, Targeted at women
Define illness work
Management of symptoms
Define everyday life work
Maintaining normal life
Define emotional work
Maintaining emotional well being
Define biographical work
Challenges faced by how the patient views themself
Define identity work
Dealing with stigma and how illness defines them
Define stigma
Negative connotations associated with a condition
Define discreditable stigma
Disease is not visible
Define discredited stigma
Disease is visible
Define enacted stigma
Where discrimination is experienced
