1. Models of Health-Old Public Health And Biomedical Model Flashcards
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Changes as a result of old public health
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- increased life expectancy (27 years)
- decreased infectious diseases
- decreased lung cancer due to decreased smoking rates
- decreased CVD
-decreased injuries and deaths at work as working conditions increase and seatbelts are introduced
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What is the Biomedical model of health
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- Focuses on physical and biological aspects of a disease
- associated with diagnoses, treatment and curing of a disease
- this grew due to the understanding of what actually caused diseases strengths and limitations
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Old public health policies and practices
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- improved water and sanitation
- better quality housing and fewer slums
- better quality food and nutrition
- introduction of quarantine laws
- safer working conditions
- more hygienic birthing practices
- provision of antenatal and infant welfare services
- mass immunisation programs