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What health care practice prevents illness in living and honors dead

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Burials, separating living from dead and honor

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What is hand washing

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The oldest health care practice and the #1 deterrent of disease

(Soul cleansing)

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Why was isolation used

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Quarantine diseased and their family until they were healed to stop transmission

(I.e: leprocy)

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Homeostasis

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By Greeks

Finishing balance (synch) in life to promote good health

Fire - temp
Water - to drink, cook and bathe
Earth - nutrition
Air- clean air

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Meaning behind Olympics (Greek)

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Exercise is necessary to maximize health

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Yin yang

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Asian cultures

Idea Is balance of opposing forces that are interrelated and complementary

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Early 1900 health care

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Not readily accessible

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What illnesses were

common in early America

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Communicable diseases (easily transmittable)

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Post WWII shift in health care

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•people lived longer through management
•shift if Communicable to chronic illness
- (I.e: diabetes, lung, heart diseases )
•Hospitals
•health ins created

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T/F

Nuns and women were first to provide care

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True

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Why did the Elizabethan poor laws come into effect

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Because of those who could not work due to age or illness affected but the Protestant ethic belief

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What is the protestant ethic belief

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Everyone should pull their own weight and contribute to society

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Elizabethan poor laws

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allowed access to healthcare for the very poor and those who cannot work due to disability or illness

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What are modern day welfare programs in the US based off of

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Elizabethan poor laws

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Germ theory

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By Pasteur

Change the idea that disease were caused by micro organisms and not persons bad behavior or bad air

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Develop the first microscope

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Edward Jenner

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Smallpox vaccine “cowpox”

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Louis Pasteur

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Pasturation to kill microbes

(I.E: milk)

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Joseph Lister

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Developed sterilization and asepsis

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Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin

Associated with antibiotic resistant bacteria like MRSA and VRE

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How does antibiotic resistant bacteria emerge

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Overuse of medication and not finishing medication cycle

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Jonas Salk

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Vaccine for polio

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Vaccine important things to remember

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  • prevent rather than treat

* babies get HEP B vaccine before leaving hospital

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Industrial revolution issues

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Poor hygiene, child labor, no OSHA, pesticides, pollution

No regulatory agencies

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What did Lamuel Shattuck do to change the issues of The industrial revolution
Submitted a report for state and local health departments, collection of final statistics, and government control of alcohol
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What was created because of Lemuel shattuck
Sheppard towner act • Mandated healthcare and delivery, established state local health departments, nutrition and healthcare for the poor and young, a way to collect stat and REQUIRED EDUCATION FOR THOSE IN HEALTH CARE basically government regulation
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What was The Social Security act and what did it do
Provided economic relief Provisions 1. Younger children have to have adequate nutrition and medical care 2. Healthcare provider must be properly educated and licensed No health care provision other than kids
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What was added to the Social Security act as a healthcare provision
Medicare (we care for the elderly) and Medicaid (we aid everyone) Obama care (ACA): healthcare and affordable price
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Define WHO
Worldwide organization of healthcare professionals that monitor and develop strategies to control the spread of disease
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WHO disease prevention goal
Minimize burden of disease and associated risk factors
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WHO primary prevention
Vaccines
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WHO secondary prevention
Screenings, early detection
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Healthy people 2020 goals
1. Create social and physical environments that promote good health 2. Promote quality of life 3. Attain higher quality longer lives free from preventable disease 4. Achieve health equity so there are no disparities
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What is recognized by healthy people 2020
That there are interelationships between physical, social, biological, physiological, environmental, and organizational factors
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Healthy people 2025 determinants of health
1. Policymaking 2. Social factors 3. Health services 4. Individual behaviors 5. Biology and genetics
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Define Policymaking
Policies at state, local, and federal level that affect people and population health (I.e: seatbelts)
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Define social factors
Availability of resources for daily life, exposure to crime and violence, social support, exposure
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Define health services
Covers issues on lack of insurance, limited language access, delay in care
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Define individual behaviors
How we care yourselves; substance abuse, diet, physical activity
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Define biology and genetics
Affecting specific populations with unequal risks those vulnerable
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Physical
Buildings, quality of life and life expectancy can be largely predicted by the ZIP Code we live in
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Florence nightingale
Founder of nursing Crimean war: Fresh air Fresh sheets Wash hands
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Clara Barton
American Red Cross
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Dorothea Dix
Advocate for mental health
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Lilian wald
Public health nurse in Henry Street settlement house
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Mary Adelaide nutting
First professor of nursing
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Lavinia dock
Women’s suffrage (vote)
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Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist service
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Mary Breckenridge
Frontier nursing: open midwifery school
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Shift of health care ideas
From curing or fixing a problem to seeking preventative practices and early treatment diagnosis
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Humans five stages of illness
Basically how people behave when sick 1. Awareness of symptom: self diagnose 2. Assumes sick role: self treatment 3. Assuming dependent role: go to doctor 4. Following treatment protocol: doctors orders 5. Regains control: recovery and normalcy
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Smith health model
Health perspectives from four vantage points 1. Clinical model: no signs symptoms 2. Role performance model: signs and symptoms but performs role 3. Adaptive model: excepts and adapts to issues 4. Eudaemonistic model: lively sense of being well
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TRAVIS MODEL
Health is a moving continuum on a two-way path wellness and disability Making choice to become aware educated means wellness Putting effort in eliminating signs and symptoms equals premature death
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Biologic or physiologic malfunction
Disease
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Wellness
Has a personal definition, can be well with disease or not well without disease
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Hettlers six dimensions of wellness
Occupational, spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, social
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People now want to know about disease and cure options
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Complementary healing methods
Use alongside Western medicine
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Examples of complementary healing
``` Pharmacology Massage diet nutrition biofeedback meditation and relaxation holistic Hipnosis and imagery ```
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Alternative healing
Used in place of traditional Western medicine
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Examples of alternative medicine
Acupressure acupuncture reflexology herbs

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