Health Systems Policy & Management (I) Basics Flashcards
What public health advances characterized the early 1800s?
Increased interest in epidemic management
What public health advances characterized the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Infrastructure and sanitation
What public health advances characterized the mid-to-late 1900s?
Health promotion, health education, identifying gaps in medical care
What public health advances characterized the early 2000s?
Preparing and responding to community health threats
What public health advances have characterized the post-2010 era?
Health equity and the SDH
What are the core ethical principles of public health (3)?
Autonomy, the common good, and social justice
What event in 1947 led to increased understanding of the importance of consent, the absence of coercion, proper scientific set-up and purpose, and beneficence towards experiment participants?
The Nuremberg Trials
What are two grave ethical errors committed in U.S. scientific research?
The Tuskegee study (1932 - 1972)
Prisoner experimentation
What did the U.S. National Research Act do?
Implemented IRBs
Where is most public health control located?
At the state level
In what landmark case did the Supreme Court rule that the state could use state police power to implement PH policies (e.g. mandatory vaccinations) and force individuals to obey them?
Jacobson vs. Massachusetts
(a case of a man who was fined for refusing to be vaccinated against smallpox)
What is the iceberg model for systemic thinking?
What event occurred?
What patterns or trends can we find regarding this event?
What underlying structures contributed to these patterns?
What mental models created these underlying structures?
What are the World Bank’s two main goals?
- To end world poverty
- To promote shared prosperity
What does the WHO do?
Make policy recommendations, collect and share data, set the international research agenda, monitor health, provide technical support
