PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: List Of Muppets, Cervical Cancer, Health Literacy
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Individualistic vs socio-cultural approaches to go for the screening) Individual diagnostic if you want to get screened is not what screening is about. better health outcomes (the ideal is to catch it in those who are at the highest risk) New born screening: you might have a child pass away from a disease, thus parents will say why did they not know about this, the issue is who can know about all the disease that can strike you. Hence, this disease should be put on the possible risk screening list. But is this beneficial for the population level: key concept in medicine, health promotion, psychology, engineering, finance, Screening & immunization genetic risk risk communication: complex construct. Probabilistic if you do abc you are less likely to get it. Problems this was expected: technical implementation they did not right now around screening) unexpected negative side effects of participation debates about effectiveness of particular forms.