Test 1 Intro Flashcards
What is the #1 cause of death?
heart disease
What is the #2 cause of death?
cancer
What is the #3 cause of death?
respiratory disease
What is available in response to increased opioid usage?
naloxone
What is a common cause of bankruptcy?
health
Global definition of public health
- “Implementation of activities with collective action to improve the health of a population”
- preventing disease and restoring health
smallpox
- if you didn’t die, you developed lifelong immunity and scars
- contact spread
Benedict Arnold
- lead American troops attacking Quebec
- did not take any precautions
- 1/3 of his troop was sick
smallpox inoculations
cut a person and introduced a part of the scab into to their body; 10 time less likely to die; only 3-5% died from this
Death of a President
- first removed 14 ounces of blood
- gurgled mixture of vinegar, butter, and molasses
- removed another 18 ounces of blood
- removed another 18 ounces of blood
- removed another 32 ounce of blood
- applied topical mercury
Rush’s thunderclappers
- primarily mercury chloride
- caused excessive diarrhea
Who got shot in the Lewis and Clark Expedition and how did they survive?
- Lewis got shot
- his wound was irrigated using water from the Mississippi River
cholera
- rapid loss of bodily fluids -> dehydration and diarrhea
- spread through water contamination
John Snow
correlated water contamination to cholera by creating a map and charting where people were dying
Tobacco use
- Cigarette manufacturing industry developed after civil war
- Army doctors thought cigs helped wounded to relax
- people smoked in movies
- higher chance of having lung cancer
What happened upon the return of the people from Apollo 11?
they were quarantined for 3 weeks
compounding pharmacy crossing state borders
- New England Compounding center in Boston
- there were shortages of drugs and the pharmacy compounded them
- pts in surgery were dying and having infections
Food & Drug Act 1906
regulated adulterated products and false claims
Food Drug & cosmetic Act 1938
require proof of safety prior to marketing
Kefauver- Harris Amendment
Ensure safety AND effectiveness prior to marketing
OTC drug review 1972
Safety, effectiveness of over-the-counter products
Tamper Resistant Regulations 1982
made it a crime to tamper with products-tamper proof packaging
What event took place to encourage the Tamper Resistant Regulations 1982?
tylenol poisoning; someone replaced the powder in the capsules with cyanide
How did they get Elixir Sulfanilamide off the shelf?
- because it wasn’t an elixir
- it was a suspension and was misbranded
- couldn’t get it off the shelf even though children died from it
Health promotion
actions that advocate to maintain or improve people’s physical / mental / social well-being
3 strategies for health promotion
- Provide people with information
- Modifying the environment
- Providing information while at the same time modifying the environment to meet the needs
