Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: heart disease

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label heart disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heart disease. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2024

Salt Awareness Week

Individual
|
      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               
HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 
|
Group
[My] attention, priorities, beliefs, mindset(s) ..
Knowledge
Health literacy
(All literacies)
Choices
Decision making
Motivation
My health:
Physical AND Mental


Responsible for..?
Culture
Lifestyle
Friends - Family
Dining custom & practice

Food Industry
National - Global action
Policy - Law
Health Economics (Price of foods)
Food labelling
Impact of Climate Change



My source: Twi/X

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

The poly-pill approach to health care ...

"A "polypill" packed with four different medications to treat high blood pressure and cholesterol can cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes by up to 40 per cent when taken with aspirin, a study has suggested." 

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

  1. aspirin (75 mg), for thinning the blood
  2. lisinopril (10 mg), for reducing blood pressure
  3. hydrochlorothiazide (12.5 mg), also for reducing blood pressure
  4. simvastatin (20 mg), for reducing “bad” LDL cholesterol




 

Does it follow then (triage aside) that in our health and social care interventions we should not restrict ourselves to a single care domain?

 

My source: 

News: 'Polypill' with aspirin offers hope of fewer heart attacks, The Times, 14 November, 2020, p.28.

 

See also:

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/16/richard-smith-a-new-important-study-supports-wider-use-of-the-polypill/



Monday, July 22, 2019

PRIMEtime CE: a multistate life table model for estimating the cost-effectiveness of interventions affecting diet and physical activity

When I saw Adam Brigg's tweet and thread the figure below stood out.

I have modelled some of the concepts using Hodges' model. I have added some additions, flagging gender* to highlight way this and other factors (often) need to be considered in a multicontextual manner.

There is a lot more of course, including the reference list; for example Squires, et al. which pose some interesting questions.

81. Squires H, Chilcott J, Akehurst R, Burr J, Kelly MP. A framework for developing the structure of public health economic models. Value Health. 2016;19:588–601.

Fig. 1 The PRIMEtime CE conceptual model



individual - self
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group- population
Interventions
over time

individual behaviours
motivation

model: outputs
AGE, GENDER*
Active People Survey

DIET - PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

cardio-vascular disease - heart disease,
 stroke, diabetes,
 liver disease, cancers, raised blood pressure, cholesterol, and body weight

TIME: chronological-pathological
PROCESS
 PRACTICE

behaviours - social
over time

social care


socio -

population health

POLICY
health economics
health care costs
social care costs
return on investment
- economics


My source (and do follow Adam's full-thread):

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Patient Education: Stable - Unstable Plaques c/o twitter ...

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group - population
'The patient'
Insight, Awareness, Understanding
Attention, Engagement, Recall

Health Literacy

Stable-Unstable Plaques
Statins
Post Myocardial Infarction
Evidence-Based Care


Policy
Post MI Intervention
or
Pre MI?
Clinics ('Real time'?)

Public Health Funding