Public Health Flashcards
What is public health according to Winslow?
Science and rt of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community measures through sanitation, control of infection, health education, health services, and legislation
A theoretician and leader of American public health
Edward A. Winslow
principles and concept of public health
Community action
Public health history
Public health
Public health activities
Story of a man’s attempt to protect himself and his fellow against the health hazards of communal living
Public health history
Organized effort by society to protect, promote and restore the health of its citizens
Public health
Emphasize the prevention of disease and disability and concentrate on the health and well-being of groups of people
Public health activities
Goal of public health
Reduce discomfort, disability, and disease in society
Promote quality of life
Attaining the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being utilizing available knowledge and resources
Emphasis of public health
Prevention of disease and disability
Concentrate on health and well-being of groups of people
Sanitation of the environment
Control of communicable infections
Education of the individual in personal hygiene
Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis
Development of the social machinery
In ancient mesopotomia, what do they perform to drive away the evil spirits of diseases
Rituals and incantation of pestilence
Noise
Smoke
Tribal dancing
Who built water closets, drainage systems and water flushing systems?
Minoans and myceneans
In athenian civilization they practice?
Personal hygiene that sometimes resulted to illness
In middle ages people are not?
Bathing, they only use perfume and wear dirty gartments
Pandemics of cholera and bubonic plague were spread by
Pilgrims
Was the endemic center of cholera
Asia
In what countries/continents the spread of Leprosy occurred?
Egypt to Asia Minor and Europe
In what century the eradication of endemic diseases happened?
16th century
Continued to be the most important mode of producing doctors
Apprenticeship
Marked progress was made in surgery
1st half of the 19th century
AMA stands for
American Medical Association
Types of medicine practiced by 17th century?
Alchemy with a strong dash of plain luck
Amalgam of barbering
AMA was founded in
1847
In what century medicine attempted to treat communicable diseases
20th century
Highly fatal killer diseases
Yellow fever, small pox, diphtheria, and asiatic cholera
5 years old children dies due to?
Summer fluxes, teething, convulsions and other related disorders
He recommended the creation of board of health
Lemuel shattuck
Secretary of poor law board
Edwin chadwick
The act that was passed; championed and caused community health
Poor law act
In 1850, it was generally believed that the cholera agent was inhaled from?
Air
He carefully observed the cholera patients
John snow