Chapter 1: Community And Public Health. Flashcards
Definition of health?
A dynamic state or condition of the human organism that is multidimensional in nature, a resource for living, and results from a person’s interactions with and adaptions to his or her environment.
Define community?
A group of people who have common characteristics. (Location, race, ethnicity, age, occupation, values, norms)
Define community health?
Health status of a defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health.
Define population health?
Health outcomes of a group of individuals, including and distribution of such outcomes within the group.
Define public health?
Actions that a society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can be healthy can occur; inclusive term
Define public health system?
Activities are undertaken within the formal structure of the government and the associate efforts of private and voluntary organizations be individuals.
Define global health?
Health problems, issues, and concerns that recent national boundaries.
5 major detriments to heath and descriptions?
Difference between personal and community health activities?
Personal: Individual actions and decision making for one’s health.
Community: activity aimed at protecting the health of a population. ( protecting food and water supply)
List and the factors that influence a community’s health?
Physical factors:
geography, environment, community size, industrial development.
Social and cultural factors:
Economy, politics, religion, social norms, beliefs, religion, prejudices.
Brief overview of the current health of Americans?
What major health problems is the United States and world facing today?
Communicable diseases
Poor sanitation and unsafe drinking water
Hunter
Migration and health
Purpose of “Healthy people 2030” goals?
To promote, strengthen, and evaluate the nations efforts to improve health and well being of all people.
20th century achievements in public health?
Vaccinations
Motor vehicle safety
Control of infectious Diseases
Healthier mother and babies
Safer and healthier Foods
Safer workplaces
Family planning
Seeing Tobacco as a hazard
How late do community health activities date back to?
2000 BCE
When did the Black death plague occur and how many deaths?
543 CE to 1348 CE
Killed 25 million
Other epidemics of the middle ages?
Smallpox
Diphtheria
Measles
Influenza
Tuberculosis
Anthrax
Trachoma
Syphilis
Highlights of the 18th century?
1790 first us census
1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
1796 dr Edward Jenner demo smallpox vaccination
1798 marine hospital service
1799 several of America’s largest cities had municipal boards of health
Highlights of the first half of the nineteenth century?
Us gov approach to health was nonintervention
1813 first busting nurse in United states
Why is 1850 important in public health?
It marks the beginning of the modern era of public health
When was the American health association was founded?
1872
Bacteriology period of public health? (Years)
Bacteriological period of public health
When did meat inspection began?
1891
When did the us army announce that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes?
1900
What year did Pasteur propose germ theory?
1863
When did London cholera epidemic start and end?
1849-1854
1900 to 1960 is referred to as?
Health resources development period
When was the first national level health agency created?
1902
1910: __% of us population was in the cities.
45%
When was the first local health department established?
1911
When was American cancer society founded?
1913
When was the first school of public health established in the United States ?
1918
1930: Life expectancy in the United States was ___ years.
59.7 years
New deal provided a ____________ attempt at national health program.
Unsuccessful
When was the social security act passed?
1935
When was the national cancer institute formed?
National cancer institute formed
Significance of 1952?
Development of polio vaccine
When was Eisenhower heart attack?
1955
What year was Medicare and Medicaid bills passed?
1965
When was health information and health promotion act passed?
1976
