Intro Chapter 1 Flashcards
What health care practice prevents illness in living and honors dead
Burials, separating living from dead and honor
What is hand washing
The oldest health care practice and the #1 deterrent of disease
(Soul cleansing)
Why was isolation used
Quarantine diseased and their family until they were healed to stop transmission
(I.e: leprocy)
Homeostasis
By Greeks
Finishing balance (synch) in life to promote good health
Fire - temp
Water - to drink, cook and bathe
Earth - nutrition
Air- clean air
Meaning behind Olympics (Greek)
Exercise is necessary to maximize health
Yin yang
Asian cultures
Idea Is balance of opposing forces that are interrelated and complementary
Early 1900 health care
Not readily accessible
What illnesses were
common in early America
Communicable diseases (easily transmittable)
Post WWII shift in health care
•people lived longer through management
•shift if Communicable to chronic illness
- (I.e: diabetes, lung, heart diseases )
•Hospitals
•health ins created
T/F
Nuns and women were first to provide care
True
Why did the Elizabethan poor laws come into effect
Because of those who could not work due to age or illness affected but the Protestant ethic belief
What is the protestant ethic belief
Everyone should pull their own weight and contribute to society
Elizabethan poor laws
allowed access to healthcare for the very poor and those who cannot work due to disability or illness
What are modern day welfare programs in the US based off of
Elizabethan poor laws
Germ theory
By Pasteur
Change the idea that disease were caused by micro organisms and not persons bad behavior or bad air
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
1
Develop the first microscope
Edward Jenner
2
Smallpox vaccine “cowpox”
Louis Pasteur
3
Pasturation to kill microbes
(I.E: milk)
Joseph Lister
4
Developed sterilization and asepsis
Alexander Fleming
5
Discovered penicillin
Associated with antibiotic resistant bacteria like MRSA and VRE
How does antibiotic resistant bacteria emerge
Overuse of medication and not finishing medication cycle
Jonas Salk
6
Vaccine for polio
Vaccine important things to remember
- prevent rather than treat
* babies get HEP B vaccine before leaving hospital
Industrial revolution issues
Poor hygiene, child labor, no OSHA, pesticides, pollution
No regulatory agencies