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CPH LESSON 1 Flashcards

1
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Founder of western medicine

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Hippocrates

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2
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Practice of community sanitation

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Greeks

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3
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Building of aqueducts to protect water supply

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Romans

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4
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Made the first hospital

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Romans

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5
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Proper diversion of human waste was a necessary tenet of public health in URBAN AREAS

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Roman Times

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ROMAN TIMES
The code of Hammurabi was made of

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Steel

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7
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They developed the practice of variolation following a smallpox

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Chinese

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8
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In this practice, children were protected against smallpox by inoculating scratch on their forearms with the pus from a lesion of an infected individual

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Variolation

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9
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This age marks the end of roman ideology

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500/1500 Middle ages/Dark ages

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10
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This period believes Health problems were considered to have spiritual causes and solutions

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500/1500 Middle ages/Dark ages

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11
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Germ theory of disease thought disease were caused by:

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Evil spirits
Demons
Witchcrafts
Superstitions
Ghost
Curses

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12
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It was believed that removing bodies of the death would further prevent the spread of the bacterial infection…
Burning parts of cities

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14th century/Black death in Europe

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13
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This practice helped mitigate the effects of other infectious diseases

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Quarantine

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14
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Science of police

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Polizeiwissenschaft

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15
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Focuses on circulation air, location of cemeteries

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Social medicine

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16
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Miasma theory of disease; management of population

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Biopower

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17
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Theory that life developed from non living matter

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Spontaneous generation

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18
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Father of microbiology

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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19
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Small forms of life

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Animalcules

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20
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Views of epidemic

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Miasmic
Contagion

21
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This theory held that epidemic stemmed from certain atmospheric conditions and from miasmas rising from organic materials

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MIASMIC

22
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Theory held that epidemics resulted from transmission of germs

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Contagion

23
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It is the year when practice of vaccinations begins

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1820

24
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Who started the practice of vaccination which became prevalent, and helps in treating smallpox

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Edward Jenner

25
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Father of epidemiology; the science of epidemiology was founded by

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John Snow

26
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John snow uses ______ to detect the source of infection; cholera outbreak in London

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SPOT MAP

27
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Modern era of public health

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1880s

28
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Made germ theory

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Robert Koch

29
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Made the artificial vaccines

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Louis Pasteur

30
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Public health interventions

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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

31
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Period when public health began to focus more in chronic diseases such as cancer and heart diseases; physical exercise was introduced

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20th Century

32
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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

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Dr Josephine Backer

33
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Risk factors to population levels issues such as:

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Inequality
Education
Poverty

34
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the start of ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis , CVDs, cancer
Bioterrorism
Globalization

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21st century

35
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Social determinants of health

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Where we live
Genetics
Income
Educational status
Social relationships

36
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It means achieving health through communities, without prejudice to the marginalized

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Health Equity

37
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When was the declaration of ALMA ATA

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1978

38
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Main strategy under alma ata declaration

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Primary standard

39
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Interventions
Individuals/familes

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Primary standard

40
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Environment

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Secondary standard

41
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Hospital setting
Surgery

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Tertiary standard

42
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Help clarify the concept of CIH and describes how it is put into practice

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1989 - WHO study group

43
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Modern concepts in Public Health

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Public hygiene
Community based participatory research
Education and training in public health
Public health research
Economics of public health

44
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Using gloves when touching the handrail and opening doors in public malls

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Public hygiene

45
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It investigates the source of disease and descriptors of health through scientific methodology

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Public health research

46
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It respects the forces under which the community and its participants preside toward promoting and sustaining public health

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Community based participatory research

47
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It can show where limited public resources might best be spent

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Economics and public health

48
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It includes public behaviors individuals can take to improve their personal health and wellness

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Public hygiene

49
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He created a spot map that helped him discover that cause of cholera outbreak in London

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John snow

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