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What is public health according to Winslow?

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Science and rt of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community measures through sanitation, control of infection, health education, health services, and legislation

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A theoretician and leader of American public health

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Edward A. Winslow

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principles and concept of public health

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Community action
Public health history
Public health
Public health activities

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Story of a man’s attempt to protect himself and his fellow against the health hazards of communal living

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Public health history

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Organized effort by society to protect, promote and restore the health of its citizens

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Public health

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Emphasize the prevention of disease and disability and concentrate on the health and well-being of groups of people

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Public health activities

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Goal of public health

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Reduce discomfort, disability, and disease in society
Promote quality of life
Attaining the highest level of physical, mental and social well-being utilizing available knowledge and resources

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Emphasis of public health

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Prevention of disease and disability
Concentrate on health and well-being of groups of people
Sanitation of the environment
Control of communicable infections
Education of the individual in personal hygiene
Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis
Development of the social machinery

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In ancient mesopotomia, what do they perform to drive away the evil spirits of diseases

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Rituals and incantation of pestilence
Noise
Smoke
Tribal dancing

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Who built water closets, drainage systems and water flushing systems?

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Minoans and myceneans

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In athenian civilization they practice?

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Personal hygiene that sometimes resulted to illness

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In middle ages people are not?

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Bathing, they only use perfume and wear dirty gartments

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Pandemics of cholera and bubonic plague were spread by

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Pilgrims

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Was the endemic center of cholera

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Asia

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In what countries/continents the spread of Leprosy occurred?

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Egypt to Asia Minor and Europe

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In what century the eradication of endemic diseases happened?

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16th century

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Continued to be the most important mode of producing doctors

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Apprenticeship

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Marked progress was made in surgery

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1st half of the 19th century

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AMA stands for

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American Medical Association

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Types of medicine practiced by 17th century?

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Alchemy with a strong dash of plain luck
Amalgam of barbering

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AMA was founded in

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1847

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In what century medicine attempted to treat communicable diseases

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20th century

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Highly fatal killer diseases

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Yellow fever, small pox, diphtheria, and asiatic cholera

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5 years old children dies due to?

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Summer fluxes, teething, convulsions and other related disorders

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He recommended the creation of board of health
Lemuel shattuck
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Secretary of poor law board
Edwin chadwick
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The act that was passed; championed and caused community health
Poor law act
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In 1850, it was generally believed that the cholera agent was inhaled from?
Air
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He carefully observed the cholera patients
John snow
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John snow recognized that cholera agent must be in
Water, food or carried by the hands
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Vision screening of school children began
Europe, Germany, and Boston
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Passage of national quarantine act
Yellow fever
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Public health became the integration of _______ and ________
Sanitary science, medical science
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Principal measures for limiting the spread of contagion
Quarantine and disinfection
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The only significant federal health program during world war II
Hill-Burton Act of 1946
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The earliest reference of the human eye is found in the _______
Code of Hammurabi in Babylon
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Earliest optical shop was opened by optician
John McAllister in Philadelphia in 1783
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Considered the father of Optometry
Charles prentice
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In 1898, the American Association of Optician renamed ______
American Optometric Association
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First optometric law was enacted in
1901 in Minnesota
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During the prehistoric world, romans had
Periodic census counts Garbage removal Public water supply Sewerage systems
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Rapid recovery from the revolutionary war years lead to large measures of prosperity and expansion
Mercantilism and colonization
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Hebrews dealt with
Hygiene of maternity Isolation in lepers Sanitation of campsites Cleanliness of the body
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First bacteriologic laboratory for routine diagnosis of disease was established during
Bacteriologic era
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The use of full scope of optometric knowledge, skills, and services to prevent disease, prolong life and to promote health
Public health optometry
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Is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence or disease or infirmity
Health
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Science and art of conserving and promoting healthful, wholesome, and comfortable vision
Visual hygiene
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Science of the preservation of health; sanitary science; a principle of rules designed for the promotion of health
Hygiene
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Embodiment of the principles, which aid in the undertaking of the causes and sources of ocular infection and disease
Visual sanitation
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Use of sanitary measures; science of sanitary condition
Sanitation
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It is UN specialized agency for health
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
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It is UN specialized agency for health
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
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WHO was established in
April 7, 1948
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WHO was governed by how many members?
192 members
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What is the task of world health assembly?
Approve the WHO program and the budget for the following biennium
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The principal health agency in the philippines
DOH
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The following attached agencies by DOH
PHILHEALTH DDB PITAH PNAC
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Responsible for field operations of the development in its administrative region
Center for Health Development
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Is implementing the national health insurance law, administers the MEDICARE program for both public and private sectors
PHILIPPINE HEALTH INSURANCE CORPORATION
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Coordinates and manages the dangerous drugs control program
Dangerous Drugs Board
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PITAH
Philippine Institute for Traditional and Alternative HealthCare
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PNAC
Philippine National AIDS Council
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Setting the stage to prevent the onset of vision conditions so that they will not be detrimental to the full development or utilization of the patients
Primary
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Preventing or reversing the ongoing vision deterioration, so that any interference with the patient’s potential would be reserved
Secondary
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Preventing an existing vision condition from further deteriorating to ameliorate the seriousness of the disability
Tertiary
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To promote health and hygiene
Primary eyecare
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This level of care is carried out by physicians specializing in Ophthalmology
Secondary eyecare
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This level of care is represented by the institute of Ophthalmology or at specialized department of hospital
Tertiary eyecare
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This level of care is represented by the institute of Ophthalmology or at specialized department of hospital
Tertiary eyecare
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Vision disorder affects more than how many people?
120M people
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What is the major public health problem?
Vision disorder
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May result from developmental vision problems, uncoordinated growth, or disease processes
Low vision
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Defined legally as VA less than 20/200 or worse in the better eye with best ophthalmic correction
Blindness

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