public health Flashcards
(117 cards)
what are the 3 domains of public health
health improvement (social interventions to promote health & reduce inequalities)
health protection ( disease control measures & environmental hazards)
health care ( health service delivery & quality)
what are the social determinants of health (x8)
PROGRESS
P- place of residence ( rural, urban etc)
R - race/ethnicity
O-occupation
G-gender
R- religion
E- education
S- socioeconomic status
S - social capital or resources
give an example of horizontal equity
every pneumonia pt deserves equal treatment
horizontal equity - equal treatment for equal need
give an example of vertical equity
areas with poorer health care need higher expenditure on health service /// those with pneumonia deserve different treatment to those with a common cold
vertical equity = unequal treatment for unequal need
what are the 9 sections for the Bradford hill criteria for causation
DR B.C. STACS
D- dose -response
R- reversibility
B- biological plausibility
C - consistency
S - strength of association
T - temporality most important
A- analogy (analogous to other similar research)
C- coherence ( coherent to other information)
S- specificity
associations found in research may be due to a variety of reasons, what re the 5 causes of association
bias
confounding fctors
chance
reverse causality
true association
give an example of information bias
information bias - systematic error in measurement / classification of exposure/outcome
e.g. observer - knows controls/cases
participant - recall bis, reporting bias etc
instrument/ measurement - wrongly calibrated/ diff instruments used etc
define lead time bias
early identification appears to increase survival but doesn’t actually alter outcomes they have a lead on the condition
e.g. pt diagnosed earlier, so “lives longer”
define length time bias
slowly progressing diseases are more likely to be picked up by screening, so screening appears to prolong life
Screening tends to detect disease that is less aggressive (slow growing cancers) because they may remain asymptomatic for longer
More aggressive disease becomes symptomatic more quickly, so breast cancer detected because the patient found a lump is more likely to be a more aggressive type of cancer, which is likely to have a poorer outcome.
so length time bias may falsely suggest that those who have been screened have a better prognosis (rather than because they have a less aggressive form of the disease)
give 2 examples of prospective studies
randomised control trial
cohort studies
give 4 types of retrospective studies
case- control
cross-sectional
case series (multiple cases)
case report / anecdote (1 case)
cross-sectional study
advantages (*3)
disadvantages (x3)
cross-sectional - snap shot
adv
- larger sample size
- rapid
- repeated studies = show change over time
disadv
- risk reverse causality
- disease length bias ( excludes people who recover quickly/ conditions with short recovery
- sample size too small for rarer outcomes
case-control studies
advantages (x2)
disadvantages (x2)
adv
- good for rare outcomes
- rapid
disadv
- selection & information bias
- finding well-matched controls is resource consuming
cohort study
advantages (x3)
disadvantages (x4
prospective longitudinal study ( looks at population w/o a disease, splits group into exposed /not-exposed, observes disease/no disease outcome in both groups)
adv
- can establish causal factors ( reverse causality eliminated as disease not happened yet)
- can follow rare exposures
- data on confounders can be collected prospectively
disadv
- difficult in rare outcomes ( conditions may not develop)
- drop outs
- large sample size required (Expensive & time consuming)
RCT disadvantages (x3)
- ethical - is the exposure/ non-exposure ethical?
- drop outs
- expensive & time consuming
how do cross-sectional and ecological studies differ
cross-sectional - prevalence in one area
ecological - compares areas/ time periods / levels of exposure
health needs assessment. when is it needed?
assessment should be conducted before health intervention is done - systematic method to review health issues facing population
what are the 3 sections of a health needs assessment
Need - ability to benefit from an intervention
demand
supply
give the 4 Bradshaw’s needs
FENC
Felt need (individual perceptions of variation from normal health e.g. can’t walk as far)
Expressed need ( individual seeks help to overcome variation form normal health)
Normative need ( professional defines appropriate intervention for expressed need)
Comparative need (comparison between severity, range of interventions & cost (e.g. pt with worse sx are prioritised for oversubscribed service)
what are the 4 stages of the planning cycle of health needs assessments
needs assessment ( assessing pt)
planning( make plan to improve)
implementation (implement new service )
evaluation (evaluate effect on wellbeing)
health needs assessment - advantages ( x3) and disadvantages (x4) to the epidemiological approach
epidemiological approach = top down
adv
- uses existing data
- provides data (incidence, mortality, morbidity etc)
- can evaluate services by trends over time
disadv
- data quality variable
- data collected may not be that required
- does not consider felt needs/ opinions/experiences of those affected
- reinforces purely biomedical approach
health needs assessment - advantages ( x2) and disadvantages (x4) to the comparative approach
(compares services between sub-groups) - e.g. spacial ( MS pts in north vs south yorkshire) vs social ( MS pts >30 vs <30)
adv
- quick & cheap ( if data available)
- gives measure of relative performance
disadv
- may be difficult to find comparable population
- data may not be available/ high quality
- may not yield what the most appropriate level (e.g. of provision/ utilisation) should be
- may be comparing 2 poor quality services
health needs assessment - advantages ( x3) and disadvantages (x4) to the corporate approach
incorporates views from pts, politicians, press, professionals, commissioners etc (e.g. service may be requested but politicians lower its priority due to costs)
adv
- based on felt & expressed needs of population
- recognises detailed knowledge & experience of those working with the popultion
- wide range of views considered
disadv
- difficult to distinguish need from demand
- groups considered may have vested interests
- may be influenced by political agendas
what are the 3 categories in Donabedian approach to evaluating clinical services
structure (What there is)
process ( what is done)
outcome - the 5 Ds ( death, disease, disability, discomfort, dissatisfaction)