Ch 1 Notes

Question 0

Greek and Roman era’s

Answer 0

Start of government being involved in health

Came up with ways to ensure cleanliness with their food water and waste to help prevent health issues.

Question 1

Definition of health

Answer 1

State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 2

Medieval era

Answer 2

Bubonic plague was carried around by rodents because the fleas lived on the rodents. Humans were infected because the rodents would die and the fleas would seek another animal to live on. Bubonic plague epidemics occurred several times during this era.

Question 3

Sanitary era

Answer 3

Chollera was infectious disease that they thought came from gas coming off of waste and garbage. The people didn’t know what it was or how to prevent the sickness so a lot of people ended up dying from this disease.

Question 4

John snow

Answer 4

Began scientific method

Investigated water sources and see if it cause Cholera

Question 5

Health beliefs in the 18th and 19th centuries

Answer 5

Humoralism-natural balance in the body

Physicians/healthcare

Practitioners-heroic medicine

Sectarian-alternative medicine

Question 6

Theories of disease causation

Answer 6

Punishment from God
Contagion theory
Miasma theory
Personal behavior responsibility

Question 7

Causes of disease and deaths in the 21st-century

Answer 7

Chronic diseases

Question 8

Health issues in the 21st-century

Answer 8

Infectious disease

Environment

Role of the government

Question 9

Flexner

Answer 9

Came up with a medical or form of schools which helped improve education and pharmaceutical care.

He said pharmacy wasn’t a profession because they are just filling the prescriptions that the doctors make.

Question 10

Two major health hallmarks of the 20th century

Answer 10

1-Government involved in healthcare… Regulate and fund

2-pre-paid health services