1st Class Flashcards
Miasma
Belief that bad air causes illness
Types of interventions
Upstream vs downstream
Upstream
Preventing:
-Population focused
-Address political, social, economic, environmental causes
Downstram
Treatment of problem already there:
Biomed
Levels of practice
Systems focused
Community focused
Individual/family focused
Systems focused
Change laws, policies
Power structures of systems
Community focused
Change norms, attitudes, practice awareness
Individual/family focus
Tx of pt
education familty
John snow
Father of epidemiology
Ended colera
Florence nightingale
Improved conditions for soliders in crimean war
Increased distance
Creased coxcomb chart
Clean and sanitary environment
Lilian wald
Mary brewster
Developed public health nurse
Mary breckenridge
Goes to europe and becomes a mid wife
Returns to kentucky
Leading cause of death
Communicable diseases
Health
Condition of the human that is multidimensional in nature.
Community
Group of people who have common characteristics
Can be defined by:
Location
Ethnicity
Age
Occupation
Types of communities
Geopolitical vs phenomenological
Geopolitical communities:
-man made boundaries
Phenomenological communities:
-churches, university
Public health
Actions that society takes collectively to ensure conditions in which people can be healthy
Obedient of speed limit
Dont dumb waste
Community health
Defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote protect and preserve their health
Global health
Health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries
Personal health activities
Individual actions that affect them or their families health
Community/public health activities
Activities aimed to improve population or community health:
Protecting food
Water supply
Physical factors that affect the health of the community
Geography
Environment
Community size
Industrial development
Social and cultural factors effecting community health
Beliefs/traditions/prejudices
Economy
Politics
Religion
Social norms
Socioeconomic status
Herd immunity
Need 80% of population to get vaccinated
(Resistance of a population to the spread of an infectious agent based on the immunity of a high proportion of individuals)
Healthy people
Based on surgeon general report on health promotion and disease prevention
Updates every decade (2030)
