1. Models of Health-Old Public Health And Biomedical Model

Question 1

Changes as a result of old public health

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

What is the Biomedical model of health

Answer 2

• 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

Question 3

Old public health policies and practices

Answer 3

• 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