Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is Public Health?
What is Individual Health?
assessment of physical, mental and social wellbeing of an individual
what is population health?
assessment of physical mental and social wellbeing of a group of persons
what is public health?
organized community efforts aimed at prevention of disease prolonging life and promotion of physical health
What are examples of medical care?
Treating an individual with an illness
What are examples of public health?
Preventing illness/injury for a group of people/community
What are the core functions of public health?
Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
What does Assessment mean?
monitoring health status to identify community issues diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in a community
What does Policy Development Mean?
informing educating and empowering people about health issues mobilizing community partnerships to identify and solve health problems develop policies and plans to support individual and community efforts
What does Assurance mean?
Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality if personal and population based health services
what is sciences role in public health?
how we understand threats to health, determine what interventions might work and evaluate weather intervention worked in past
What is politics role in public health
how we as a society make decisions about what policies to implement
What are the Disciplines of public health?
-epidemiology - biomedical science - social and behavioral science -statistics -environmental health sciences -health policy management
what is the public health approach?
- define the health problem 2. identify risk factors associated with the problem 3. develop and test community level interventions 4. implement interventions 5. monitor interventions
What is the chain of causation?
- Agent -Host -Environment
