Chapter 1: Community health Flashcards
_____: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not just the absence of dx
Health
WHO, 1947
——: o Dynamic state that is multidimensional, resource of living, and a persons interactions with & adaptation to enviro
Health
____: group of people with common characteristics
community
______: health status of a group
o Actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve health
Community health
_____: health status of ppl who are not prg and have no identity as a group
o Actions and conditions to promote, protect and preserve their health
population health
___: aimed at improving health of a pop/ comm.
community health activities
____: individual action/ decisions that affect the health of an individual / their family
personal health
4 factors affecting community health
physical factors
social and cultureal factors
community organization
individual behaviors
what is the Sumerian clay tablet
evidence of RX
____:laws pertaining to physicians and health practices
The Code of Hammurabi
- in the ancient societies before 500 BC
____: a book that had guidelines for cleanliness
book of Leviticus
What two cultures were a part of the classical cultures
greek 500 BC-0
Romans 0-500 AD
_____ ages btw the yrs of AD 500-1500
Middle ages
___ ages btw the years of AD 500- 1000
Dark Ages
during what era was the “spiritual era”
middle / dark ages
the black death plague was during ___-___
1348-1350
What was the last epidemic of the middle/ dark ages
syphilis
Renaissance & exploration was btw ___-___ yrs
1500-1700
(4) characteristics of the renaissance
rebirth of thinking
accounting for who was getting sick
dx caused by enviro- not spirits
epidemiological thinking
___ yr : first US census
1790
___ yr: Dr. Jenner, smallpox vaccination
1796
Who came up with the smallpox vaccination
Dr. Jenner
first vaccination
___ yr: _____ becomes the US public health service
1798: Marine Hospital Service
during the 19th century ___ was the Governments approach to public health
Laissez Faire (noninterference)
“____” was considered good health advice in the 19th century
buyers beware
London Cholera epidemic ____-___
1850-1854
what was the first use of epidemiology to stop an epidemic
Dr. Snow noticed that ppl were getting cholera from drinking water from Broad Street pump
removes 3 pump handles in 1854
___ theory: vapor was the source of dx
Miasmas Theory
During what yr does the modern era of public health begin
1850
_____ report : wrote on the health needs of Massachusetts (17 stuffs)
___ yr
Shattuck’s report
___: germ theory
__ yr
Pasteur (1863)
____ yr: APHA founded
1872
___ (person) announced yellow fever transmitted by mosquitoes
___ yr
(1900) Reed
Modern Era of Public Health ___-___ yrs
1850 to present
___-___ yrs: Reform phase of public health
1900-1920
Sinclair’s the “Jungle” published in ___
1906
____ yr: first school of public health
1918
__ yr : social Security act
1935
___ yr : polio vaccine
1952
___ yr: medicare and medicaid bill passed
1965
___ yr: OSHA Act
1970
Period of Health Promotion dates: ___-___
1974- present
___ yr: WHO’s “health for all” pub.
1977
Healthy People pub. ___ yr
1979
Health People 2000 pub. ___ yr
1990
Health People 2010 pub ____ yr
2000
cost of health care
$2.2 trillion
Uninsured : 46.6 million
____: a cross over dx from an animal
zoonoses
1 leading cause of Death
Heart dx
What are the 10 leading causes of death
- Heart dx
- Malignant neoplasms
- Chronic low resp. dx
- Cerebrovascular
- Unintentional injury
- Alzheimer’s dx
- DM
- Neophritis
- Influenza
- Suicide
