Public health Flashcards
Health
complete physical, mental, social wellbeing, not just absence of disease
PH
links disciplines, promotes disease
epidemics
cholera, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever
why epidemics>
poverty, increased biomass, global trade, no sanitation
endemics
the big killers: TB, resp/diarrhea
sanitary movement
filth=disease, health=god, rich in contact with poor so lets clean up
nutrients improve
immune system
medicine and new PH
no more social change, less PH, medicine wanted power
modern public health acheivements
vaccines, safe work, safe food, infectious disease decrease, family planning
roles of public health
monitor, diagnose, mobilize community
medicine and PH
are better together
environmental health remains current issue
pollution, infrastructure, no precautionary principle
