public health

Question 1

describe the origins of public health 1

Answer 1

• overcrowded, unsanitary, industrial towns in 19th century
• sir edwin chadwick, link between life expectency and social class, sanitary reform,
• public health act 1948

Question 2

define illness

Answer 2

subjective illness of loss of health

Question 3

define disease

Answer 3

the presence of some pathology or abnormality in a part of the body

Question 4

define health education

Answer 4

• 1920-1970s
• emphasis on information and education to change personal habits & behaviour
• posters
• mass publicity campaigns

Question 5

define health promotion

Answer 5

• covers all aspects of activities seeking to improve health of individuals and communities includes:
• health education
• environmental change
• legislative change
• HP is making healthier choices easier choices

Question 6

how do health education and health promotion relate to each other

Answer 6

HE gives the info, HP acts on it aswell e.g
HE would show posters of the dangers of smoking whilst HP would do that and ban advertising , smoking locations, tax on cigarettes

Question 7

describe how public health aims to protect and improve the nations health and well being and reduce health inequalities

Answer 7

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Question 8

define public health medicine and describe the three domains

Answer 8

1. health improvement
2. improving service
3. health protection

Question 9

describe how the world health organisation support public health

Answer 9

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Question 10

john snow

Answer 10

• studied 1854 cholera outbreak in london
• 1875 public health act
  
  • controlled water supply and sewage disposal

Question 11

edwin jenner

Answer 11

• english politician

- vaccinations

Question 12

louis pasteur

Answer 12

• french chemist and microbiologist

- pasteurisation

Question 13

robert koch

Answer 13

• german biologist
• identified role of microbes in disease
• nobel prize winner

Question 14

paul enrlich

Answer 14

• german. physican and scientists
• asphenamine (salvarsan) first effective treament for syphylillis
• nobel prize for contribution to immunology

Question 15

alexander feming, florey and chain

Answer 15

• scottish physician and biologist
• discovered penicillin
• knighted in 1944

Question 16

describe the origins of public health 2

Answer 16

advances in public health led to:

• reductions to acute infections
• more people surviving childhood
• more people lived long enough to suffer chronic conditions (cardiovascular disease, cancer)