Anticipatory Care: Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion in Family Practice

1. Anticipatory care Dr. Basema AL.KhudhairMOH))Family Medicine consultant & trainerClinical Assistant Professor (KSU)email( balkhudhair@yahoo.com)

2. If we take responsibility for preventive work only of proven value we shall have our hands full.

3. 1 Diseased, diagnosed & controlled 2 Diagnosed, uncontrolled 3 Undiagnosed or wrongly diagnosed disease 4 Risk factors for disease 5 Free of risk factors Diagnosed disease Undiagnosed or wrongly diagnosed disease Iceberg phenomenon ?

4. Does it work? • USA: Mortality from stroke has decreased by 50% since 1972 • Early diagnosis and treatment of hypertension • Mortality from cervix cancer decreased by 80% • Pap smear • Neonatal screening: Decrease in mental retardation • Phenylketonuria screening • Congenital hypothyroidism National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/ndi/ndi.htm

5. Health Promotion • Includes all measures which promote good health and prevent or delay the onset of disease or their complications. • The essential union of prevention with care and cure (RCGP,1981).

6. Why in Family Practice ?

7. Aims: 1-Improve the quality of life. 2-Reduce the burden of premature disability. 3-Increase life expectancy.

8. Health Promotion : 1-Primary Prevention: • Health education. • Prophylaxis.

9. Primary Prevention: A. Health education: Aims to enlighten people by providing them with information factors which are known to cause disease. B. Prophylaxis: An active intervention in an attempt to protect the individual from developing a particular disease e.g.: vaccination.

10. Cont. 2-Secondary Prevention: • Screening. • Case finding. 3-Tertiary Prevention : systematic long term monitoring to prevent or minimize the impact of complication.

11. What are primary care physicians doing? Tertiary Prevention Primary Prevention Secondary Prevention Preventive Medicine!

12. Secondary Prevention: A. Screening: Are systematic attempts to detect undeclared disease in a population of apparently healthy people. • Before mounting a screening initiative certain criteria must first be satisfied (Wilson, 1973) .

13. PHE Evaluation of apparently healthy individuals in certain time periods, using a number of standard procedures such as counseling, physical examination, and laboratory investigations is called Periodic Health Examination.

15. Preventive Medicine and Periodic Health Examinations in Primary Care Introduction to Primary Care: a course of the Center of Post Graduate Studies In FM

16. The Criteria: 1- The condition (the disease) sought should be: • Important. • Recognizable at an early stage. • Readily treatable.

17. Cont. PHE 2- The screening test used should be: • Practical and safe. • Acceptable to patients and non invasive. • Highly sensitive and highly specific and easy to interpret. 3-Facilities for diagnosis and management should be readily available.

18. Cont. PHE 4- Treatment should be: • Recognized • Effective. 5- The cost of screening test should be balanced and screening should be a continuous process. 6- To agree on a policy on whom to treat.

19. Cont. PHE 8-The population screened : • Sufficiently high disease prevalence. • Accessibility 9-Compliance with subsequent diagnostic tests &necessary therapy.

20. Does it work? • USA: Mortality from stroke has decreased by 50% since 1972 • Early diagnosis and treatment of hypertension • Mortality from cervix cancer decreased by 80% • Neonatal screening • Decrease in mental retardation • Phenylketonuria screening • Congenital hypothyroidism National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/ndi/ndi.htm

21. Rationale: • Many young people die every year due to RTA • > 90,000 die < 65year : <32,000 due to cancers. <25,000 due to IHD . • Cessation of smoking <33% reduction in all cancers. <25% reduction In IHD. • Treating & controlling hypertension reduce CVAs by 50%

22. Think of your daily life • A50-year old woman applies to your office. She has no history of disease but afraid of having breast cancer. • Should you perform a breast exam? • Should you teach her breast self exam? • Should you order a mammography? • How do you decide?

23. Rationale • It’s an important disease for women • Worldwide 719000 new cases/year. (1/1000) • Ist female's cancer (Saudi cancer registry) • It can be recognized early without symptoms • Mammography • Curable • Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy • The value of treatment is far more than its adverse effects

24. Screening / PHE programs in Saudi Arabia • Annual periodic health examination for all diabetic and hypertensive patients registered at PHC • Cervical screening • Breast cancer screening in some areas • Pre-marital screening (genetic dis., infectious dis.) • Well baby clinic

25. Conclusion: • Management decision must be related to one or more of the following objectives: • Prevention of an illness. • Prevention of disability in curable illness. • Prevention of further disability in chronic disease. • Prevention of relapse. • Prevention of death.

26. Principles of patient education • Interest • the recognition of the need • patients are unlikely to listen to those things which are not to their interest • Motivation

27. Principles of patient education • Participation • active learning • Known to unknown • knowledge is build up to enable patients to develop an in-depth insight into their own health problems

28. Principles of patient education • Comprehension • Making patient understand what you say • Educational background • Mental capacity • Re inforcement • repetition of the information in the same or during subsequent consultation

29. Principles of patient education • Encourage the patient to participate in decision making and in accepting some degree of responsibility for his/her own management • Record body weight • glucocheck • Monitoring temperature • B.P

30. Principles of patient education • Encourage feed back • Involvement of others e.g. family members where appropriate • Establish wheather the objectives have been met and the patient is happy with the outcome

31. Principles of patient education • Provide take away information • patient instruction leaflets • resource contacts • Arrange follow up • Reinforcement of information • preventive measures

32. Principles of patient education • It is sometimes wrongly assumed that just by providing people with information, they will automatically be able to make healthy choices. • Examples ??

33. Principles of patient education • Fahad 55 years old blind recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus, come to the primary care clinic for follow up visit. How you will help fahad to understand and cope with diabetes?

34. Patient education model • Establish the patient’s knowledge of the problem • Describe the problem • Establish the patient’s attitudes to the problem

35. Patient education model • Correct any incorrect health beliefs • Supplement the patient’s existing knowledge to a level appropriate to the needs of the patient and the doctor • Facilitation by the use of special charts, diagrams, models.

36. Patient education model • Explore other preventive opportunities • Reinforce the information • Develop a management plan • immediate • long term • patient participation in decision making

37. Patient education model • Learning by doing • the right step towards positive action • Good human relationship • patients must accept you as a friend • Leader • patients learn best from the educator whom they respect and regard

38. conclusion • Practicing the principles of patient education will facilitate the doctor relationship with patients and families and improve patient’s satisfaction, and outcome.

39. Thank you