Introduction to Community and Public Health Flashcards
This is the establishment that described public health as “Fulfilling society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.”
Institue of Medicine
This is the establishment that described public health as “Public health aims to provide maximum benefit for the largest number of people.”
World Health Organization
These are the two characteristics that defines Public Health.
Prevention rather than curative; Population rather than individual.
This is the year the Greeks and Romans practiced community sanitation measures.
500 BCE
This is the year when The Public Health Act was made.
1840’s
This is the year when The Environmental Protection Agency was founded.
1970
A disease that infected 500 million worldwide.
Influenza
The year when 500 million people were infected worldwide.
1918
The year when the polio vaccine was introduced.
1955
The year when polio eradication initiative was launched.
1988
This is the world’s first written health code.
Book of Leviticus
This is the disease where food labeling and promotion of physical activities wishes to address.
Obesity
This is the status of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease.
Health
This is the failure of a body to defend and cope with the forces tending to disturb body equilibrium.
Disease
This is the active process of becoming aware and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.
Wellness
This is the prevention, treatment, management of illness, preservation of health through services by health organizations and professionals.
Healthcare
These are the determinants of health.
- Income and Social Status
- Education
- Physical Environment
- Employment and Work Conditions
- Social Support Networks
- Culture
- Genetics
- Personal Behavior and Coping Skills
- Health Services
- Gender
These are the important components of community health.
- Health Promotion
- Prevention of Disease
- Management of Factos Affecting Health
These are the priorities of public health.
- Survival of Man
- Prevention of conditions that leads to destruction or retardation of life.
- Achievement of human potential and prevention of a sedentary lifestyle.
- Improvement of quality of life.
These are the core functions of public health.
- Assessment
- Policy Development
- Assurance
This is a core function that monitor health statuses to identify community health problems.
Assessment
This is a core function that diagnose and investigate health problems and hazards in the community.
Assessment
This is the core function that informs, educates, and empower people about health issues.
Policy Development
This is the core function that mobilizes community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
Policy Development
This is a core function that develop policies and plans that support individuals and community health efforts.
Policy Development
This is a core function that enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
Assurance
This is a core function that link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of healthcare when unavailable.
Assurance
This is a core function that assure a competent public health and workforce.
Assurance
This is a core function that evaluates effectiveness, accessibility and quality of personal and population-based health services.
Assurance
These are the partners of public health.
- Community
- Academe
- Business
- Government
- Media
- Clinic Care
This is a science and art wherein it prolongs life, promote physical and mental health and efficiency.
Preventive Medicine
These are the steps of the natural history of disease.
- Pre-disease Stage
- Latent Disease Stage
- Symptomatic Disease Stage
These are the levels of prevention.
- Primordial
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
This level of prevention is done through addressing broad health determinants, minimizing future hazards, and inhibiting establishment of risk factos.
Primordial Level
This level of prevention is done through the prevention of onset and reduction of disease incidents, as well as health education promotion, and protective measures such as sanitation.
Primary Level
This level of prevention is done through the early diagnosis, prompt treatment, and screening programs.
Secondary Level
This level of prevention is done through disability limitation, rehabilitation, and to “soften” the impact of an ongoing illness or injury.
Tertiary Level
These are the levels of prevention in addition of diagnosis steps.
- Primary
- Disease Onset
- Secondary
- Clinical Diagnosis
- Tertiary
This is the level of prevention that aims to avoid the development of diseases and the removal of risk factors.
Primary Level
This is the level of prevention that aims for the early detection, treatment, and prevention progressions.
Secondary Level
This level of prevention aims to reduce the complications established by a disease.
Tertiary Level
These are the two prevailing challenges the future of public health faces.
- Urbanization
- Industrialization
This challenge is characterized by the chaotic growth of cities that results in economic and social problems along with the rise of slums, crime, disease, unemployment, poor sanitation, etc.
Urbanization
This challenge is characterized by occupational hazards and women joining the workforce, which may or may not have adverse effects in families such as childcare.
Industrialization
