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Health promotion: definitions
Define health promotion 1,
Define health 2,
What are the 3 determinants of he...
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Health promotion: framework for health promotion action
What are the 5 areas 1,
What are the 3 approaches 2,
How do the 5 areas fit into the 3...
8
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Introduction to public health
3 aims of public health 1,
Does it focus on upstream and dow...,
Two key tools used 3
24
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Mortality and morbidity
4 resources from which mortality ...,
Crude death rates 2,
Proportionate death rates 3
18
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Measures of disease frequency
Prevalence 1,
Incidence 2,
Two types of incidence 3
10
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Measurement and bias
How is a hypothesis written 1,
2 features of hypotheses 2,
Two types of errors 3
23
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Confounding, validity, reliability
Define confounding verbal symbolic 1,
Bias vs confounding 2,
How to determine confounding 3
10
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Study designs: introduction
All the study designs are example...,
Define observational studies 2,
Define descriptive study design 3
8
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Study designs: descriptive
Case study describe 1,
Case series describe 2,
Case study series 2 advantages 3
8
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Study designs: analytical
Cross sectional study describe 1,
Do cross sectional studies show p...,
Do cross sectional studies show i...
23
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Study designs: experimental
Randomised control studies are mo...,
Ethics associated with random all...,
How do rcts control for selection...
24
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Ethics: history
Describe how the smallpox vaccine...,
Describe how the syphilis vaccine...,
Before ww2 what was expected of r...
11
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Ethics: ethical principles
5 key ethical principles 1,
Scientific integrity 4 points wit...,
Scientific integrity 2 additional...
13
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Ethics: ethical theories
Consequentialism what is right is 1,
Extension of consequentialism is ...,
Deontological theories what is ri...
12
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Ethics: human research ethics committees
Hrecs are required for 1,
Human research can t be done with...,
4 roles of hrecs 3
5
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Screening: introduction
Screening vs diagnostic tests sca...,
Screening vs diagnostic tests pop...,
Screening vs diagnostic tests pur...
20
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Screening: statistics
Disease present and positive test 1,
Disease present and negative test 2,
Disease absent and negative test 3
10
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Screening: lead time and length time
Describe lead time 1,
Describe lead time bias 2,
Describe length time 3
5
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Outbreak investigation: definitions
Define outbreak epidemic extended 1,
Define epidemic short 2,
Define outbreak 3
14
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Outbreak investigation: steps 1 - 5
What are the first ive steps 1,
Step 1 2,
4 aspects of preparing for fieldw...
28
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Outbreak investigation: steps 6 - 10
Steps 6 10 1,
Step 9 2,
2 ways of controlling 3
6
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Trends in global population size and life expectancy
All age groups what pop size in 1...,
0 14 years what pop size in 1950 ...,
25 69 years what pop size in 1950...
14
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Trends in global causes of disease
3 categories of causes of death 1,
What s happening to injuries as a...,
What s happening to communicable ...
13
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Trends in Australia's health
How many people in australia now 1,
How many people in australia in 2...,
Does age specific population grow...
21
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Communicable diseases: introduction
Define communicable disease 1,
3 requirements steps to infection 2,
Step 1 3
39
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Diseases: food/water borne, fecal-oral route, blood borne
Food and water borne disease acro...,
What are the 5 food and water bor...,
Are water borne diseases 3
27
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Diseases: prion diseases, vector borne, airborne
Prion disease what is the infecti...,
2 examples of prion diseases 2,
3 ways prion diseases can be tran...
46
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