Lecture 1 Flashcards
(31 cards)
How do you define Health
State of well being
Absent of disease
What is global health 3
What approach does it require
Whose responsibility
o the optimal well-being of all humans from the individual and collective perspective
o fundamental human right
-“The process of countries around the world becoming more integrated and interdependent across economic, political, cultural, and other domains” (Jacobson, 2019, p. 18)
Requires public health care approach
Shared responsibility and nurses
Behavioral risk factor
Behaviour that can be adopted, stopped, or changed in order to reduce the risk of disease
-stress
Burden of disease
What populations is additionally burdened
o The adverse impact of a particular health condition or group of conditions on a population
- Indigenous -> higher risk of chronic disease (mortality, diabetes and etc.)
- Immigrant -> higher risk of TB, poverty and etc.
Community development
What is fair and equal
o Process through which community members identify their own development priorities and take action to achieve them
Fair – each population gets what they need
Equal – everybody gets the same
Distributive justice
o Be ethical principle that needed resources in a population should be fairly allocated
Endemic
An adverse health condition that is always present in a particular population
Epidemic
o And epidemiological event characterized by a disease occurring more often than usual and causing more than a few sporadic occurrences of disease
h1n1
Food Security
o Security that exists when members of the household or community reliably have access to enough food to be healthy, active, and productive
- Global issue
- People need foodbanks
One Health
A concept that emphasizes the interconnectedness of human health, animal health, and ecological health
Primary HealthCare
o A system of community based health employees community health workers and focuses more on prevention and not on cures
what is Public Health and the three parts
The promotion of health and prevention of illnesses, injuries, and premature death at the population level
- Immunization
- Canadas food guide
- Focusing on a population level intervention
Pandemic
Worldwide epidemic
Mortality
Death
Morbidity
Presence of illness or disease
NGO
o Non-governmental organization. A nonprofit organization that is private they managed and receives at least some of its funding from private sources
-• USEF, Samaritans Purse. Shoeboxes, World Vision(donations)
Social Determinants of health
o Personal factors in community conditions that enable or hinder access to health Poverty Gender Access to health care Education Income employment
Social Justice
o The principle that moving toward greater equality is valuable for human flourishing
Global Health Qualities 5
- Focuses on issues that directly or in directly impact home but can transcend national boundaries
- Development and implementation of solutions often require global cooperation
- Embraces both prevention in populations and clinical care of individuals
- Health equity among nations and for all people is a major objective
- Highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary within and beyond health sciences
400 BC
Hippocrates
First Century AD
Romans
14th Century
Black death (bubonic plague)
Started in central Asia
Spread by sailors
Plague doctor
- Introduced quarantine
- broke chain of infection
Middle Ages
Colonial Expansion
influenz small pocks measles
Brought back diseases to Europe (cephalus)
1750-1850
1832
1838
industrial rev. improve life quality increase in child morbidity and mortality (made sewers and hospitals) Started systematic data collection
1832 – royal commissioner surveyed health and sanitation within city sewer
-Created first Public Health Act
1838 – Created General Health Board
-Officers -> inspection, looking ways for interventions to increase quality of health
