May 2009

Post date: Jan 26, 2010 1:15:37 AM

stopping disease before it starts

- or keeping it from getting worse.

- identifying Risk

• screening

  • medically

    • diagnostics

    • Considerations

      • cost effective

      • sensitive

      • treatable

      • time efficient

      • risk to patient (non invasive)

  • nonmedically

    • questionnaire

    • med records -- Quality improvement

    • clinical interview

      • FH, ROS,

    • community outreach-education

• public health (epi, research, populations

  • populations at risk

  • Why are they at risk (health Determinants)

  • Disparity

    • Difference in care. inequality

    • Difference in outcome.

    • inequity- opportunity

    • Classifications

      • gender, race, SES, age, education, geographic area, language spoken, sexual orientation, disability

    • Advocacy

• identifying risky behavior

  • educating of correcting

  • Behavior Change

• Education

  • media

  • community outreach

  • clinical interview

  • pt handouts

  • healthcare team. educators/ nutritionists/ pharmacists/ students/ etc.

  • schools