HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medicine, Behavioural Sciences, Health Policy
29 Jun 2016
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Premise: society has an interest in the health of its members! Expanding agenda new problems and issues. Grounded in sciences (biology, physical, quantitative, social, behavioral) Responsibilities of public health system: health emergencies, chronic disease and injury prevention, health promotion. According to us center for disease control 20th century"s top ten great public health achievements: vaccination 2. High risk strategies = find people at highest risk and attempt to prevent outcome. Breathing is impaired reason to quit smoking: physician motivation. Gives doctor justification to tell patient to smoke less: cost-effective. Health education needs to be repeated and is costly: benefit: risk ratio favourable benefits larger! People who are most keen on screening are usually at lowest risk: palliative and temporary. Doesn"t remove cause of disease: limited potential. Weak prediction potential because: (1) we"re bad at predicting who will get a disease in the future (cid:894)2(cid:895) doesn"t show how dangerous: behaviourally inappropriate lifestyle characteristics constrained by social norms, ex.
