E-modules + assignment cancer

6 important questions on E-modules + assignment cancer

What is health? (Uitspraken)

  • Absence of illness
  • a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being (1948)
  • ability to adapt and self manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenger (2011)


Health is weighed by personal values and preferences, and group characteristics (age, gender, culture)

What are the organised efforts of society?

  • Governmental organizations
  • non-governmental organizations


acting on:
- local, regional, national or international level

Caplan's prevention model (1964)

  • Tertiary prevention
    • reduce complications, intensity, severity of current disease/care of disease
  • secondary prevention
    • early disease detection to prevent progression and symptoms
  • primary prevention
    • avoids development of disease
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Classification of disease prevention

Universal prevention - total population
selective prevention - high risk groups
indicated prevention - early diagnosis
care-related prevention - diseased persons

Types of descriptive studies (3)

  • Case reports and case series
  • prevalence studies / surveys
  • studies based on health registries / routinely collected data

Prevalence study / survey

Presence of a condition at a particular point in time or period in a defined population
  • total number of people with certain disease
  • distribution of risk factor or other characteristic

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