Public Health Flashcards
Two meanings of public health
Health status of the public
Organized social efforts to preserve and improve the health of a defined population
Total process of collecting by registration, enumeration or indirect estimation of information on the frequency of occurrence of certain vital events
vital statistics system
Basic sources of vital statistics
marriage certificate
certificate of live birth
certificate of death
certificate of fetal death
disease or injury that directly led to d eath
immediate cause (pneumonia)
complications that gave rise to immediate cause of death
antecedent cause
root disease
underlying cause
circumstances that led to death
manner of death (suicide, homicide, etc)
RA 10625
Philippine Statistics Act of 2013
Type of census: physical presence is important
Defacto census
Type of census: regardless of physical presence
Dejure census
the following should not be used to preserve dead bodies
lime
muriatic acid
potassium alum/tawas
Phases of COPAR (Community Organizing Participatory Action Research)
Pre-entry phase: select target community
Entry phase: integration process; potential leaders identified
Formation phase: core group created
Organization building phase: most crucial; mobilization of people
Sustenance and strengthening phase: end and most important phase
Suspension of family routine
Form of crisis in the family
Acute illness
Interval between initial diagnosis and readjustment period
Guilt on the part of the patient
Chronic illness
Inevitable death becomes apparent
Terminal illness