Block 12
The estimated percentage of hypertensives that are well-controlled worldwide?
What is 10–15%
A group of people that focus on protecting and promoting the physical, mental and social wellbeing of people at work
What is Occupational Health?
A persistent, excessive, unrealistic fear of an object, person, animal, activity, or situation.
A neurocognitive condition characterised by a stepwise decline in executive functioning and focal neurological deficits.
What is vascular dementia?
A risk factor associated with increased risk of colorectal, breast, endometrial, kidney, oesophageal and pancreatic cancers.
What is excess body fat?/ Obesity?
The principle associated with treatment that is intended to relieve suffering but may unintentionally shorten life.
What is the doctrine of double effect?
This aims to protect individuals from discrimination, promote fairness, and ensure equal opportunities in areas such as employment, education, healthcare and access to services.
What is The Equality Act 2010?/ Equality Legislation?
The NICE First line treatment option offered for Generalised Anxiety Disorder?
What is SSRIs? (but as a bridging therapy while you refer for CBT)
A condition defined as a rapid onset of confusion and cognitive impairment (hours/days) which follows a waxing and waning course, and is usually reversible
What is Delirium?
This Hepatitis virus strain is thought to be the most common cause of chrinic liver disease worldwide
What is Hepatitis C
The workload of healthcare placed on a patient and its impact on their functioning and wellbeing.
What is Treatment Burden?
When a policy or rule applies to everyone but it disadvantages a particular group.
e.g. A work schedule that disadvantages people with certain religious practices
What is Indirect Discrimination?
The area of our working memory that handles all of the auditory information and processes what we hear and is involved in rehearsal of what we are going to say.
What is the phonological loop?
The type of memory that is most vulnerable to bias and inaccuracy when encoded and retrieved?
What is episodic memory?
Hepatitis B has a high prevalence in these continents
What is Asia and Sub-saharan Africa?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. These are parts of WHICH model?
What is The Kubler-Ross Model of Grief
They approve all living organ donations, making sure they are free from duress or reward?
Who are the Human Tissue Authority?
The theory that suggests that memories fade over time if not used and consolidated to LTM (mainly STM).
What is Decay Theory?
Theory that suggests older adults will prioritise emotionally meaningful goals and relationships
What is Socio-emotional Selectivity Theory?
This diet is estimated to potentially reduce cancer mortality by 30%
What is a plant-based diet?
A Phenomenon that describes when interventions that aim to improve health have relatively small influence on the health of most people. Thus for one person to benefit, many people will have to change their behaviour and receive no benefit from these changes.
What is the Prevention Paradox?
The model used as a framework for evaluating the quality of healthcare services. It is comprised of three components:
Structure, Process and Outcomes
What is the Donabedian model?
The function of short term memory that processes language and perception data in the brain. This memory allows us to manipulate objects, items, and numbers to perform complex tasks.
What is Working Memory?
A behavioural therapy technique based on operant conditioning, where individuals earn tangible secondary reinforcers for exhibiting desired behaviours.
What is Token Economy?
Providing resources and opportunities based on individual needs so that everyone can achieve a fair outcome.
What is Equity?