Unit 2 - Introduction to Public Health Flashcards
What is public health
science and art of preventing disease, prolonging health, and promoting health. (through organized efforts)
public heath
prevention of disease and health promotion
health care
treatment of individuals and disease
Assessment, Planning, Action, Evaluation (APAE cycle)
- Identify knowledge gaps that prevent action
- adapt to the local context
- assess barriers to knowledge use
- implementing interventions
- monitoring use
- evaluating outcomes
- sustaining use
12 great public heath achievements
- Acting on DOH
- Controlling infectious disease
- Decline in death form heart disease and stroke
- family planning
- healthier environments
- motor vehicle safety
- recognise tobacco as hazard
- safer foods
- safer workplace
- universal policy
- vaccination
- healthy mothers
health care cycle
Diagnosis, Treatment plan, treatment, evaluation (VS. APAE cycle)
measuring public health value
hard to do
- life expectancy
- reduce infant deaths
- reduce infectious disease deaths
(66 percent of gains in life expectancy due to public heath)
epidemiology
studying diseases
biostats
health related data
environmental health
environmental factors that effect health
health promotion
identification and solution of public health problems
health policy and management
policy analysis and public health programs
Determinants of Health
list all 12
challenges to PH
- those who pay don’t benefit
- short term vs. long term
- market vs social justice
- hard to address certain behaviours
risk
probability of something bad happening
hazard
source of danger
exposure
exposed to contact with something
cost benefit analysis
establish acceptable level of risk
low income countries leading cause of death
infectious disease
high income countries leading cause of death
chronic disease
Hippocratic corpus
collect of 60 medical text written b/w 3rd and 4th century BC
miasma
invisible vapours that originated from swamps and floated around in the air (big during the plague)
john snow
founder of epidemiology
(investigated 1800s cholera outbreak)
aqueducts
system to try to provide clean water
