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21 Cards in this Set
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What is risk perception? What influences it? |
The subjective that people make about the characteristics and severity fo a risk Dread Newness stigma |
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What is the difference between primary and secondary prevention? |
Primary prevention is taking measures to prevent occurence of disease (immunisation, lifestyle, smoking) secondary prevention is addressing a disease before the occurence of symptoms (treating hypertension for CVD, cancer screening) |
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What is the IMD score? What is used to calculate it? |
Index of multiple depravation (qualtiative study of deprived areas in local councils) Income, employment, health depravation, education, living environment, crime, barriers to housing and serivces |
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What is lifecourse epidemiology? |
Long term effects on later health (early life exposures and risk of CVD, cancer, diabetes) |
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What metaphors might patients use to describe pain? How else do patients express pain? What can be identified by description of pain? |
wind, religion, weight, colour, military gestures location of pain |
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Define race, class and ethnicity? |
All social construts Race is group of people with similar, inherited physical characteristics Class is ordering society based on perceived economical and social status ethnicity is social group with common nationality/cultural tradition |
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What are the 5 races? |
Caucasoid Negroid Capoid (bushmen) australoid mongoloid |
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What are the 7 classes? |
elite (private school.elite uni): priveliged background established middle class: management, broad social lives, outside urban areas technical middle class: research/science/techinical, emerging culture, mix among own new affluent: emergin culture, youthful not well off Traditional working class: average age 66, electricians etc emergent service: age 34, inexpensive in large city Precariat: cleaners, live in old industrial area |
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What is the professional social distance? |
4-12 feet |
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What is the difference between sex and gender? |
Sex is biological characteristics gender is masculine/feminine characteristics |
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What is the difference between Marx's and Bourdieus concept of class? |
Marx: Bourgeoise (own the means of production), Proletariat (sell labour power) Bourdieu: class based on aesthetic tasete |
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What is allostatic load? |
physiological effect of repeated/chronic stress on body |
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Outline difference between disease, illness and sickness. |
Disease is biological perspective illness - psychological perception (subjective state of experiencing symptoms) sickness - social performance |
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What is the difference between migrant, refugee and asylum seeker? |
A person who moves due to pull factors A person who is forced to leave due to push factors a person who has left as a political refugee and seeks asylum in another (still applying) |
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What is acculturation, what are the 2 major process involved and determine 4 strategies |
adoption cultural traiits of another group retention/rejection of orignial culture adoption/rejection of host culture 1. assimilation - adoption host over original 2. separation - rejection of host for origin 3. integration - bicultural 4. marginalisation - rejection of both |
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What is the difference between absolute and relative poverty? |
severe depravation of basic human needs is absolute poverty living on less than X% of average income |
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How does the Health Equality Community Interest Company raise money? What measures has it taken? |
The Health Lottery Peoples Health trust Hillingdon Asian Womens Group sessions in yoga,arts and crafts for ethnic minority women |
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Are health behaviours and socioeconomic factors good predictors of health? |
Yes No |
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Why is there an agenda to integrate health and social care? |
Greater coordination of care for chronic and medically complex conditions can reduce confusion, repetition, losing people in system, delay improve patient satisfaction |
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What are the problems with integration of health and social care? |
Difficulty in defining level of integration (collaboration, alliance partnership) diff agencies doing the same thing = duplication hard to assemble teams of professionals |
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What is intelligent kindness? |
Relationship built with patient leads to virtous cycle Kindness, attentiveness, attunement, trust, therapeutic alliance, better outcomes, kinship, kindness |
