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Define public health
actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the
conditions in which people can be healthy can occur
Define the "Ps" of public health
Prevention
Protection
Promotion
Prolonging
Product safety
Physical, social, economical environments
(Big) Picture
Populations
Public Health in Ancient Greece
-personal hygience
-physical fitness (olympics)
-naturalistic concepts (disease caused by imbalance between
man and environment)
,-The Greeks understood the importance of washing hands,
bathing, exercising, and eating good food
Hippocrates
father of western med
-believed that illness had a physical and rational explanantion
-looked for and described casual relationships between
disease and other factors (climate, soil, water, lifestyle)
Public Health During the Roman Empire
-adopted Greek health values
-built aqueducts to bring water into the city
-advanced plumbing technology
- collected taxes to support public services
Public Health During the Middle Ages
- shifted away from Greek and Roman values
- decline of hygiene and sanitation
- faith and prayer were accepted treatments for illness
- plague
,- developed the concept of quarantine
Public Health during the Age of Reason and Enlightenment
- renewed interest in reason and enlightenment laid foundation
for more specific explorations
William Harvey
-demonstrated the function of the heart and circulatory system
- first to suggest that humans and other mammals reproduce
via fertilization of an egg by sperm
- birth of modern med
-used dissection
Edward Jenner
- proved that swinepox or cowpox provided immunity against
smallpox
- coined the term vaccine
-laid foundation of modern immunology as a science
Problems caused by Industrialization Urbanization
, - slums
-poverty
-disease
Great Sanitary Awakening
-the birth of modern public health
-Great strides in scientific knowledge to help understand the
origin and treatment of disease.
-Interest in humanitarian ideals
-Acknowledgement of the connection between poverty and
disease.
-Even today, poverty is the single best predictor of poor
health.
-Returning to what the Romans had figured out, new
infrastructure for clean water and sewage removal
-Birth of a system to monitor the health status of communities
Bubonic Plague
plague brought by fleas
pneumonic plague