Old public health Flashcards
1
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Old public health
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The organised response by society (governments) to protect and promote health and wellbeing, and to prevent illness, injury and disability.
2
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Australia’s health status in early 1900’s
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- Poor housing, lead to dangerous health problems
- A lack of safe water and sanitation was the major problem, and lead to infectious diseases
- health care was very expensive, so many of peoples diseases were left untreated.
3
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Improvements over time
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o Vaccines – Smallpox, polio, tuberculosis
o Antibiotics – Infectious diseases, e.g tuberculosis, syphilis
o MRI – Early detection, and therefore treatment, of cancers
4
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Leading causes of death
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- infectious disease
- heart disease
- cardiovascular disease
- cancer
- accidents
5
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Health promotion
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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
