Ch 1 and 2 Flashcards
Public health
Concerned with the health of all, not just individuals
Three domains of public health
Health protection
Health promotion
Disease prevention
Health protection
Protecting society from disease
Health promotion
Work accomplished when healthy ideas and concepts are encouraged
Primary prevention
Stop the disease from occurring, reverse or arrest progress before treatment is needed
Secondary prevention
Routine methods to terminate the disease process and/or restore
Tertiary prevention
Focuses on people who have been affected by disease; restore function
WHO definition of health
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
IOM core functions
Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
Serving all Functions
Assessments
Monitoring the health of communities
Policy development
choosing strategies to address the problems
Assurance
Making sure all populations have access to appropriate cost effective care
- includes health promotion and disease prevention
Serving all functions
research for new insights and solution to health problems
Public health goals
goals that guide all public health activities, dictate services that are needed
Public health services
Interventions to attain public health goals
Dr Edward jenner
Discovery of immunizations-> lead to elimination chickenpox
Dr John snow
founder of modern day epidemiology
Hells kitchen in New York
Dr Sara baker, led teams of nurses to teach mothers to dress, feed, and bathe their babies
SES
Socioeconomic status
- effects access to care, the lower the more frequent the untreated carries
