Transcript Biomedical Vs Preventative Health Care

Biomedical Vs Preventative Health Care
Preventative Health Care
Involves taking action to avoid illness occurring or
returning and to detect illness at the earliest time
possible
Preventative healthcare takes all components of health into
consideration.
 It promotes healthy lifestyle choices and focuses on groups
rather than individual (communities).
 It aims a stopping illness occurring or returning and to detect
illness at the earliest time possible to reduce severity.
 Can you list some benefits of focusing on groups rather than
an individual???
Can you list some advantages of stopping illness before it
occurs??? (think of the money spent on health care treatment)
 To achieve it’s aims there are 3 different levels of preventative
healthcare.
Primary Prevention
 prevents illness, injury and or disease.
Educating, raising awareness and promoting healthy lifestyles
Get moving and Go for your life are 2 examples of primary
prevention because they promote healthy lifestyles by
encouraging exercise and a healthy diet.
Slip slop slap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAu5wCTEBt0
Life be in it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNjEge3Awl8&feature=related
Quit smoking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEyqPISdEFc
Can you think of a primary prevention campaign that exists???
 design your own primary prevention campaign and come up with
a catchy slogan.
 What is the cost difference between treating a patient with skin
cancer (surgery) compared to a tube of sunscreen or buying a hat.
Secondary Prevention
 Detects and treats illness at the earliest time possible.
 It is directed at people who are at risk of a particular
disease but have not yet fully developed it.
 Risk factors that place people at risk may include a
personal or family history of the disease, age or gender.
Example, a women over 50 has a mother who had breast
cancer, she is a risk of the disease (hereditary). A
mammogram is an example of a secondary prevention to
detect breast cancer at the earliest time possible.
 think of another example???
Tertiary Prevention
 Provides treatment, rehabilitation and support for people who
already suffer from a disease or illness.
It aims to improve the quality of life.
Example includes rehabilitation of a patient after a hip
replacement.
Can you think of any other examples???
What preventative Heath care strategies do
you practice????
Biomedical Healthcare
Biomedical healthcare involves the diagnosis and treatment of the
physical or biological aspects of disease and illness
The focus on biomedical healthcare is on the medical profession
and aims to treat the physical and or biological aspects of disease
and illness.
 It involves diagnosis (identifying illness through the use of test)
and intervention (medical treatment to cure, control or treat
illness)
Some times called the ‘fix it’ approach to healthcare.
Examples include blood tests, X-rays, medications and surgery.
Guess what the % the government spends on biomedical
and preventative health care?
10%
90 %
Why is there so much more spent
on Biomedical Healthcare
Medical
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facilities are expensive.
Most of the spending is on medical services, hospitals and
pharmaceuticals.
Those
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who are ill need to be treated.
there is an increasing ageing population which is becoming
a burden on the health system.
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preventative health care is a new approach and the
benefits will not be prevalent in the immediate future.
Why is preventative care
becoming more important
Preventative health care is cost effective (cheaper) than
biomedical care.
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people can achieve the benefits of living a healthy
lifestyle as well as being disease free.
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Advantages of preventative health care
People
are offered the information or services to reduce
their chances of suffering from illness or to detect the illness
at the earliest time possible to treat it.
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People live healthier lifestyles and improved quality of life.
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Increased life expectancy.
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It is less expensive.
Disadvantages of preventative health care
People may not want to change bad habits and don’t
listen to preventative health care strategies.
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people may be isolated and don’t have access to the
information about leading a healthy lifestyle.
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Advantages of biomedical health care
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People who are ill are treated.
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there is a high success rates of treating those who are ill.
Disadvantages of biomedical health care
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The treatment is very expensive
medical services, hospitals and pharmaceuticals are
expensive.
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It focuses on the fix it approach rather than preventing
people from getting ill.
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Alternative Health
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Offers different options to conventional diagnosis and health services
and are used to instead of conventional medical services.
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complementary and alternative health services are various methods to
promote health by helping the body to use its own natural healing ability.
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Treatments include improving the nutritional status of the body,
eliminating toxins, reducing stress and improving posture and physical
alignment.
Complementary
and alternative medicines are non prescription products
that claim to have health benefits.
These
medicines include herbal, homeopathic products, Chinese
medicines, aromatherapy products and nutritional supplements.
Alternative health care services provide a substitute for
conventional health care.
 complementary services work together with and complement
health care services.