Social Med Exam Flashcards
What is the historical development of Social Med?
- Roots in the distant past (Babylon, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Rome) - Hippocrates’ teaching was close to Social medical ideas (he said that the doctor must know the conditions in which the patient lives. His basic thought was that the natural resistance of the human body should be supported in treatment)
- In the beginning of the 16th century, a book was printed on the suppression of venereal diseases
- In the 17th century, a register of births and deaths was introduced in England
- In 1786, Johann Peter Frank gave the first definition for social med (he wrote about housing hygiene, nutrition, pregnancy, children’s health…the role of the state)
- In the 18th century Frank : Medizinische polizei (the state is obliged to take care of health)
- In 1848. Guerin: Social medicine represents a set of relations between medicine and society
- In 1848. Virch’s: radical criticism of social conditions, which are responsible for health.
- In 1848 in England the first law on public health
In 1870 in the countries of Eastern Europe - Social hygiene - In 1915. in Berlin - a new medical discipline - Medical pathology (Grotjahn)
- At the beginning of the 20th century, the first academic seats (Berlin, Nancy, Utrecht)
Flourishing after World War II - In the 60s - Community Medicine- PUBLIC HEALTH
- First dean of faculty Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut implemented public health ideas in Serbia and Montenegro
What are the definitions of Social Medicine?
- Guerin 1948 - Social medicine is the sum of the relationship between medicine and society
- Semaško - Social medicine is a science that deals with social pathology and the organization of health care for groups and the entire society
- Frank - Social medicine is the responsibility of the community for the health of individuals through a system of social-medical measures
- Andrija Štampar - Social medicine is a science that deals with examining the mutual influence of social relations and pathological phenomena in the people and finding measures of a social character to improve public health
- Kesić - The object of action of social medicine is the people as a whole, vulnerable groups, populations and individuals as social units, exposed to the influences of social structure and events
- Gerić - Social medicine is a medical discipline that deals with the problems of folk pathology and all other social and social phenomena, which are related to the health and illness of man as a social being, as well as a member of the immediate and wider community
- Janjić - Social medicine is a philosophy of medicine
What are the subjects and content of the work of Social Medicine?
Study of the health status of the population
Study of factors of health status (biological, social, economic, cultural…)
Social diseases
Organization of health care
Health management
Economics in health (price of health and cost of illness)
Health legislation
Health education
International health cooperation
Measures of the health service in emergency occasions
What are the methodological procedures in clinical and social medicine
Find reason for seeking help (leading symptom)
History, status, provisional diagnosis
Additional tests (lab, scopies, etc)
Definitive diagnosis
Therapy plan
What are the methodological procedures in social medicine
Define the problem
Synthesis of information
Data collection
Analysis
Conclusion and proposal for measures
What is the definition of health
A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease and incapacity - WHO 1948
R. Dubos - The success or failure of an organism to respond adaptively to changes in the environment
Parson - The state of optimal capacity of the individual for the effective fulfillment of the roles and tasks for which he has been socialized
What is the modern concept of health?
It has medical, philosophical, psychological, social and economic dimensions
Lack of disease
Lack of dysfunction
Capacity for functioning
Equilibrium state at all levels
Positive concept
Necessity for carrying out daily life
What are the social determinants of health
Position/acceptance/rejection by society in society, happy childhood, personal peace and security (stress), social support
Job satisfaction/Employment opportunity and security
Permanent - genetics, gender and age
Lifestyle - nutrition, smoking, physical activity, sexual behaviour, alcohol, drugs
Socio-Economic - poverty, employment, education, social involvement and environment
Environment - housing, air quality, water quality, waste disposal
Food
Availability of services: transport, health care, social care
What are the main risk factors of health?
Sedentary lifestyle
Alcohol and drugs
Sexual activity
Behaviours that cause injury
Tobacco use
Poor eating habits
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What is health for all?
Adding years to life - reducing premature mortality
Adding health to life - reducing illness
Adding life to years - promoting and improving health
What is health for all by 2000?
WHO initiative with the slogan Health for All by the Year 2000 A.D. Health for all meant that every individual should have access to Primary Health Care and through it to all levels of a comprehensive health system
What is health for all in the 21st century?
The policy for “health for all in the 21st century”, adopted by the world community in May 1998, aims to realize the vision of health for all, which was a concept born at the World Health Assembly in 1977 and launched as a global movement at the Alma-Ata Conference in 1978
It sets out global priorities for the first two decades of the 21st century, and ten targets that aim to create the necessary conditions for people throughout the world to reach and maintain the highest attainable level of health.
What is international health cooperation?
Cooperation encompasses both global health and issues directly linked to health, including development, human rights, climate change, crisis management, and humanitarian assistance
What is the world health organisation?
WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.
The goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being
What is the red cross?
The Red Cross provides international aid to help people around the world in emergencies and support refugees and survivors of trafficking, and those facing chronic hunger
Its purpose is to protect life and health and to ensure respect for the human being
What is family health care?
- Definition of family: the basic social category in which the largest number of people live the longest period of their lives, and in it they end their lives. (?)
- A family can include – married/unmarried people with their children and other blood related members
What is family life dimension?
i. Family structure
1. Individual characteristics of family members
2. Cultural style (Ethnic, racial, religious)
3. Ideological stylrs (briefs, values, imitation)
ii. Family interaction:
1. Behaviour among members of the immediate and extended family
2. Level of cohesion (emotional balance between family members and their own autonomy
3. Adaptability (the power of the family members to change the family structure with a change to life cycle)
4. Communication
iii. Family functions
1. Biological (prolongation of the species, birth and raising of offspring)
2. Economic (employment. Income generation)
3. Physical (health protection, production and preparation of food and clothing, sustenance, providing security)
What are the indicators of family health?
i. Family size and structure
ii. Events during the life cycles – birth, deaths, marriages, divorces
iii. Types of functioning, activities, communications
iv. Risk indicators
v. Health indicators (anthropometry, results of systematic examinations)
vi. Disease indicators (incidence, prevalence, absenteeism, traumatism, absences from school)
vii. Family planning incidators (number of live births, number of still births, interval between births, abortions, materal age during pregnancy)
viii. Response models, directed towards health risk factors
What are the objectives in women’s health care?
- Acquiring knowledge about healthy lifestyles and adopting positive forms of behavior in relation to parenthood,
- Humanizing the relationship between giving birth to desired and healthy children
- Acquainting pregnant women with the physiology of pregnancy, the importance of a hygienic and dietary regime, the importance of maintaining oral and dental health during pregnancy and psychophysical preparation for childbirth and maternity
- Timely detection, elimination and treatment of risks in pregnancy, including especially genetic disorders
What are the measures in women health protection?
- Childbirth planning
- Protecting the health of pregnant women, women in labor and midwives,
- Treatment of sterility,
- Ensuring health care in connection with the prevention and early detection of malignant diseases, especially on the reproductive organs and the breast,
- Solving the leading health problems of women in the generative and post-generational age by detecting health and social factors in women in childbearing age and the wider community,
- Assessment of social needs and provision of women’s social protection
Define the elderly
people over the age of 65. Early old age – 65 to 74 years, middle old age 76 -84 years and deep old age – over 85 years
What are issues relating to the elderly population
i. Health issues
1. Increased risk of disease, risk of dependance on others, risk of disability, pressure on the health services and allocations for their health care
ii. Social needs
1. Reduction of social contacts, increased isolation and a growing need for ensuring social security
iii. Economic issues
1. Interruption if productive life, lack of material, possibilities for existence and the need for their provision.
What implementations are available for the elderly?
- General practice and other segments of ambulatory-polyclinic care,
Home care and treatment,
Day hospitals,
Inpatient and specialized geriatric institutions - Social protection Geriatric care facilities, Home help services, Provision of material assistance and Provision of legal assistance
What is health education?
Health education is the translation of what we know about health into the desired form of individual and community behavior through the health process
What are the types of health education?
i. Spontaneous/unplanned
ii. Planned and systematic
What are the contents of health education and areas of its application?
- The content of health and educational work stems from the needs of the population of a certain locality.
- The needs can be recognized by population, but also by experts.
- The population may not recognize their need or consider it insignificant even if they recognizes it.
- An expert can also recognize the need, but population remain uninterested.
What is health promotion?
Health promotion enables people to increase control over their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure.
What are the key elements of health promotion by who?
i. Good governance for health
1. Companies must factor health implications into all the decisions they take, and prioritize policies that prevent people from becoming ill and protect them from injuries
2. By aligning tax policies on unhealthy or harmful products such as alcohol, tobacco, and food products which are high in salt, sugars and fat with measures to boost trade in other areas
3. Through legislation that supports healthy urbanization by creating walkable cities, reducing air and water pollution, enforcing the wearing of seat belts and helmets
ii. Health literacy
1. People need to acquire the knowledge, skills and information to make healthy choices.
2. They need to have opportunities to make those choices.
3. they need to be assured of an environment in which people can demand further policy actions to further improve their health
iii. Healthy cities
1. Cities have a key role to play in promoting good health. Strong leadership and commitment at the municipal level is essential to healthy urban planning and to build up preventive measures in communities and primary health care facilities. From healthy cities evolve healthy countries and, ultimately, a healthier world
What different approaches does health promotion take?
i. Communication
ii. Education
iii. Legal and fiscal measures
iv. Organizational changes
v. Community development
vi. Mass media
vii. Spontaneous local activities against health risks