CPH LESSON 1 Flashcards
Founder of western medicine
Hippocrates
Practice of community sanitation
Greeks
Building of aqueducts to protect water supply
Romans
Made the first hospital
Romans
Proper diversion of human waste was a necessary tenet of public health in URBAN AREAS
Roman Times
ROMAN TIMES
The code of Hammurabi was made of
Steel
They developed the practice of variolation following a smallpox
Chinese
In this practice, children were protected against smallpox by inoculating scratch on their forearms with the pus from a lesion of an infected individual
Variolation
This age marks the end of roman ideology
500/1500 Middle ages/Dark ages
This period believes Health problems were considered to have spiritual causes and solutions
500/1500 Middle ages/Dark ages
Germ theory of disease thought disease were caused by:
Evil spirits
Demons
Witchcrafts
Superstitions
Ghost
Curses
It was believed that removing bodies of the death would further prevent the spread of the bacterial infection…
Burning parts of cities
14th century/Black death in Europe
This practice helped mitigate the effects of other infectious diseases
Quarantine
Science of police
Polizeiwissenschaft
Focuses on circulation air, location of cemeteries
Social medicine
Miasma theory of disease; management of population
Biopower
Theory that life developed from non living matter
Spontaneous generation
Father of microbiology
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Small forms of life
Animalcules
Views of epidemic
Miasmic
Contagion
This theory held that epidemic stemmed from certain atmospheric conditions and from miasmas rising from organic materials
MIASMIC
Theory held that epidemics resulted from transmission of germs
Contagion
It is the year when practice of vaccinations begins
1820
Who started the practice of vaccination which became prevalent, and helps in treating smallpox
Edward Jenner
Father of epidemiology; the science of epidemiology was founded by
John Snow
John snow uses ______ to detect the source of infection; cholera outbreak in London
SPOT MAP
Modern era of public health
1880s
Made germ theory
Robert Koch
Made the artificial vaccines
Louis Pasteur
Public health interventions
Latinization
Building of sewers
Regular collection of waste followed by incineration or disposal in a landfill
Providing clean water
Draining standing water to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes
Period when public health began to focus more in chronic diseases such as cancer and heart diseases; physical exercise was introduced
20th Century
She lowered the infant mortality rate using preventive methods; a doctor which led teams of nurses into the crowded neighborhood and taught mothers how to dress, feed, and bathe their babies
Dr Josephine Backer
Risk factors to population levels issues such as:
Inequality
Education
Poverty
the start of ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis , CVDs, cancer
Bioterrorism
Globalization
21st century
Social determinants of health
Where we live
Genetics
Income
Educational status
Social relationships
It means achieving health through communities, without prejudice to the marginalized
Health Equity
When was the declaration of ALMA ATA
1978
Main strategy under alma ata declaration
Primary standard
Interventions
Individuals/familes
Primary standard
Environment
Secondary standard
Hospital setting
Surgery
Tertiary standard
Help clarify the concept of CIH and describes how it is put into practice
1989 - WHO study group
Modern concepts in Public Health
Public hygiene
Community based participatory research
Education and training in public health
Public health research
Economics of public health
Using gloves when touching the handrail and opening doors in public malls
Public hygiene
It investigates the source of disease and descriptors of health through scientific methodology
Public health research
It respects the forces under which the community and its participants preside toward promoting and sustaining public health
Community based participatory research
It can show where limited public resources might best be spent
Economics and public health
It includes public behaviors individuals can take to improve their personal health and wellness
Public hygiene
He created a spot map that helped him discover that cause of cholera outbreak in London
John snow
