prelims Flashcards
Three major fields of public health
Epidemiology bio statistics and health services
Sub fields of public health
Environmental social behavioral and occupational health
Analyze the health data using statistical methods to understand patterns of disease or disease, currents
Bio statistics
It assessed and controlled environmental factors that can affect the human health such as air and water quality food safety hazards Waze and occupational hazards
Environmental health
Help educators, health promotion specialist, and behavioral scientist developed and implement programs to promote healthy behaviors
Social and behavioral health
Focuses on protecting the health and safety of workers in various industries
Occupational health
The aim of public health is to prevent diseases before they occur by addressing underlying risk factors and promoting healthy behaviors and environments
Prevention
Promoting healthy lifestyle such as encourage in physical activities nutritious eating tobacco sensation and vaccination to improve the over health and prevent chronic diseases
Promotion
Three key factors of public health
Prevention, promotion, and education and awareness, surveillance and monitoring policy development, healthy equity, global health and community engagement
He’s the founder of Western medicine
Hippocrates
They are active in the practice of community sanitation
Greeks
They improved upon Greek engineering in the building of aqueducts to protect water supplies
Romans
They created the first hospital
Romans
Water supply or navigate ball channel constructed to convey water during hypocrite is times
Aqueducts
It is a time when it was well understood that proper division of human waste was a necessary tenet of public health in Orban areas
Roman times