Epidemiologic Transitions Flashcards
Define Public Health
To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability
What was the Greek’s ideology on Public health
The Greeks understood the importance of washing hands, taking a bath, exercising and eating good food.
What was the Roman’s ideology on Public Health
Adopted Greek’s values and engineered sewage systems
Even collected taxed for public baths
Define a Pandemic
A world wide epidemic - disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
Define an endemic
A disease regularly found in a population
Define Epidemiology
A branch of medicalscience that studies the distribution ofdisease in human populations and the factors determining that distribution, chiefly by the use of statistics
When was the Sanitary Reform
1837 first sanction legislation enacted
1842 Edwin Chadwicks report
What was Edwin Chadwick’s report
Graphic descriptions of filth and disease spread in urban areas. More than half of working class children died before their fifth birthday; average age of death for common laborers was 16.
What was the story of Typhoid Mary
Many around her kept getting ill
Got stalked to find out she was an active carrier
Spread it via Salmonella Typhus, Feces contaminated water – sanitation practices are bad
Forced into quarantine twice for a total of 26 years
What are the major lessons to be learned from Typhoid Mary
Fear of the unknown and inability to work with the ill, Mary, had caused more damage than expected
There are many moral lessons to learn from it on how to protect and be protected from the ill and illness
Health care’s system provokes a stigma towards disease carriers which often results in prejudice
Define the Demographic transition model
A representation of the transformation of countries from high birth rate and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates as part of the economic development of a country
What is stage one of the epidemiologic transition stages
Infectious and parasitic disease were the primary causes of death
What is stage two of the epidemiologic transition stages
Receding pandemics - disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.
What is stage three of the epidemiologic transition stages
Degenerative disease and man made disease
What is Stage three of the epidemiologic transition stages characterised by
Characterized by a decrease in deaths from infectious diseases and an increase in chronic disorders associated with aging
- Cancers
- Cardiovascular disease
