1.11 Public Health Flashcards
What did John Snow do?
1) Clinician providing care and health during cholera outbreak
2) Look at contours and shape of epidemics
3) Statistics and logic
4) Surveillance and response as best way to combat epidemics
Father of Epidemiology
John Snow
Basic Tenets of public health
Tracking
Tracing
Understanding
Areas of engagement
Basic
Clinical
Public Health
What is studied at each level?
1) Cells, tissues, animals in the laboratory setting (basic)
2) Sick patients
3) Populations or communities at large
Research goals on each level of engagement
1) Understanding disease mechanisms and the effects of toxic substances
2) Improving diagnosis and treatments of disease
3) Prevention of disease, promotion of health
Examples of studies in each area of engagement
1) toxicology, immunology
2) internal medicine
3) epidemiology, environmental science
Core disciplines in public health
Biostatistics Epidemiology Health service organization Health education Behavioral science Environmental science Psychology of Health
Identification of health trends, includes forecasting scenarios and determining the causes of disease
Biostatistics
Study of human health in populations
Epidemiology
groups focused on encouraging healthy choices and promoting health issues
health service organization
a focus on the ways to encourage people to make healthy choices
health education
studies the full range of factors that affect health
behavioral science
involves the study of the physical and social environment that helps shape health
mental processes and behaviors that affect health
The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting physical health efficiently through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the
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