Focus of Public Health in U.S until 1950s - Answer Public health efforts have focused
upon the control of infectious diseases.
1970's Public Health Focus - Answer Recognized that health promotion efforts have
great potential for reducing morbidity, saving lives, and reducing costs • The visibility of
health education/promotion began to increase (chronic diseases)
Dimensions of Health: - Answer A dynamic state or condition that is multidimensional -
Physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual. A resource for living, and results
from a person's interactions with and adaptation to the environment"
Wellness - Answer Joint Committee, 2012 -an approach to health that focuses on
balancing the many aspects, or dimensions.
Mortality Rate - Answer Most frequently used to measure the seriousness of injury or
disease.
Social Determinants of Health - Answer Economic Stability, Education, Social and
Community Context, Health and Health Care, Neighborhood and Build Environment.
Primary Prevention - Answer Prevention that forestalls the onset of illness or injury
(healthy/no disease)
Secondary Prevention - Answer Leads to early diagnosis and prompt treatment of a
disease or illness to limit the impact of the disease. (No symptoms)
, Tertiary Prevention - Answer Includes retraining, reeducation, and rehabilitation of an
individual who has incurred disability or impairment (treatment). (Diagnosed disease)
Focus of Health Promotion - Answer Modify risk factors - such as hand washing, flu shot
campaigns.
Epidemiology - Answer Study of the distribution of disease and determinants of
health-related states or events in specific populations, and the application of this study
to control health problems.
Cultural Competency - Answer Developmental process defined as a set of values,
principles, behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable health professionals to work
effectively across racial, ethnic and linguistically diverse populations.
Early Humans learned by - Answer observation as well as by trial and error
India 4000BC - Answer India set public sanitation with bathrooms and drains
Greek father of medicine - Answer Hippocrates
Caduceus - Staff and serpent of the physician symbol of the temples of Asclepius.
Roman Public Health - Developed public and private baths. In addition to a system of
private medical practice. First to build a hospital. Advance the work of Greek in the
study of anatomy and the practice surgery.
Renaissance surgeons - Answer Surgery and dentistry was done by barbers because
they have the best chairs and sharpest instruments available.
Miasmas theory - Answer Belief that disease was formed in filth and caused by some
type of poison spread in the air.
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