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Public Health - ANS ✔A set of activities a activities a society undertakes to monitor and improve
the health of its collective members.
Charles Winslow - ANS ✔the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and
promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations,
public and private communities and individuals
Compare and contrast the various aspects of public health and medicine - ANS ✔PUBLIC
HEALTH- population based, public service, disease prevention and health promotion, broad
based involving environment, lifestyle, and medical care
MEDICINE- individual, individual service. Disease diagnosis and treatment, emphasis on medical
care
Impact of small pox on public health and its achievements - ANS ✔EDWARD JENNER- First
doctor to inoculate people against smallpox using cowpox. He has noticed milkmaids were not
acquiring smallpox because cowpox was such a similar virus
BUDDHIST NUN- Variolation- ground up smallpox scabs and blow powder into nostrils of healthy
people
Impact of tuberculosis on public health and its achievements - ANS ✔10 million people
infected... 1.5 million died in 2020... #2 infectious disease killers globally... 1 in 3 HIV deaths due
to TB.... Glaring examples of healthcare inequities
Core functions of public health: Assessment - ANS ✔systemically COLLECT, analyze, and make
AVAILABLE information on healthy communities. Needs DATA collection, statistical,
epidemiological ANALYSIS and DISSEMINATION of findings
,Core functions of public health: policy - ANS ✔PROMOTE use of scientific knowledge base in
policy and DECISION MAKING at the local, state, and federal levels
Core functions of public health: Assurance - ANS ✔Ensure PROVISION of services to those in
need by ENCOURAGING appropriate activities from OTHER ENTITIES. May require DIRECT
PROVISION of services
Professions that contribute to the fields of public health - ANS ✔epidemiological, biostatistics,
nutritional, behavioral science, medical doctors, dentists, environmental health, health
administration, and policy makers
Ten essential public health services - ANS ✔1. Assess and monitor population health.
2. investigate, diagnose, and address health hazards and root causes
3. Communicate effectively to inform and educate.
4. Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships
5. Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws
6. Utilize legal and regulatory action
7. Enable equitable access
8. Build a diverse and skilled workforce
9. Improve and innovate through evaluation, research, and quality improvement
10. Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
Prevention's role in the community - ANS ✔to put a stop to disease before it strikes or to
effectively treat once it does to prevent follow on disease or worsening symptoms
1. Assessment (assess and monitor population health... investigate, diagnose, and address
health hazards and root causes)
, 2. policy development (communicate effectively to inform and educate... strengthen, supports,
and mobilize communities and partnerships... create, champion, and implement policies, plans,
and laws.... utilize legal and regulatory actions)
3. Assure (enable equitable access... build a diverse and skilled workforce... improve and
innovate through evaluation, research, and quality improvement... build and maintain a strong
organizational infrastructure for public health)
Three levels of prevention: Primary - ANS ✔reduces risk factors before occurrence of a disease
even happens... STOP ILLNESS
Three levels of prevention: secondary - ANS ✔early detection of the potential for development
of a disease while a person is asymptomatic
ie. colonoscopy
effects: reduces prevalence/ consequences
Three levels of prevention: Tertiary - ANS ✔treatment of an existing disease process to
ameliorate of delay its progression
- symptomatic
- effects... reduce complications/ disability
Three levels of prevention: Primordial prevention - ANS ✔preventing risk factors from even
occurring- primary is preventing exposure to risk factors. Primordial eliminates them
completely... urban planning is an example
How does the spectrum of prevention activities can be used to change norms and support
individual choices - ANS ✔1. influencing policy and legislation
2. changing organizational practices
3. Fostering coalitions and networks
4. Educating providers
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Public Health - ANS ✔A set of activities a activities a society undertakes to monitor and improve
the health of its collective members.
Charles Winslow - ANS ✔the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and
promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations,
public and private communities and individuals
Compare and contrast the various aspects of public health and medicine - ANS ✔PUBLIC
HEALTH- population based, public service, disease prevention and health promotion, broad
based involving environment, lifestyle, and medical care
MEDICINE- individual, individual service. Disease diagnosis and treatment, emphasis on medical
care
Impact of small pox on public health and its achievements - ANS ✔EDWARD JENNER- First
doctor to inoculate people against smallpox using cowpox. He has noticed milkmaids were not
acquiring smallpox because cowpox was such a similar virus
BUDDHIST NUN- Variolation- ground up smallpox scabs and blow powder into nostrils of healthy
people
Impact of tuberculosis on public health and its achievements - ANS ✔10 million people
infected... 1.5 million died in 2020... #2 infectious disease killers globally... 1 in 3 HIV deaths due
to TB.... Glaring examples of healthcare inequities
Core functions of public health: Assessment - ANS ✔systemically COLLECT, analyze, and make
AVAILABLE information on healthy communities. Needs DATA collection, statistical,
epidemiological ANALYSIS and DISSEMINATION of findings
,Core functions of public health: policy - ANS ✔PROMOTE use of scientific knowledge base in
policy and DECISION MAKING at the local, state, and federal levels
Core functions of public health: Assurance - ANS ✔Ensure PROVISION of services to those in
need by ENCOURAGING appropriate activities from OTHER ENTITIES. May require DIRECT
PROVISION of services
Professions that contribute to the fields of public health - ANS ✔epidemiological, biostatistics,
nutritional, behavioral science, medical doctors, dentists, environmental health, health
administration, and policy makers
Ten essential public health services - ANS ✔1. Assess and monitor population health.
2. investigate, diagnose, and address health hazards and root causes
3. Communicate effectively to inform and educate.
4. Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships
5. Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws
6. Utilize legal and regulatory action
7. Enable equitable access
8. Build a diverse and skilled workforce
9. Improve and innovate through evaluation, research, and quality improvement
10. Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
Prevention's role in the community - ANS ✔to put a stop to disease before it strikes or to
effectively treat once it does to prevent follow on disease or worsening symptoms
1. Assessment (assess and monitor population health... investigate, diagnose, and address
health hazards and root causes)
, 2. policy development (communicate effectively to inform and educate... strengthen, supports,
and mobilize communities and partnerships... create, champion, and implement policies, plans,
and laws.... utilize legal and regulatory actions)
3. Assure (enable equitable access... build a diverse and skilled workforce... improve and
innovate through evaluation, research, and quality improvement... build and maintain a strong
organizational infrastructure for public health)
Three levels of prevention: Primary - ANS ✔reduces risk factors before occurrence of a disease
even happens... STOP ILLNESS
Three levels of prevention: secondary - ANS ✔early detection of the potential for development
of a disease while a person is asymptomatic
ie. colonoscopy
effects: reduces prevalence/ consequences
Three levels of prevention: Tertiary - ANS ✔treatment of an existing disease process to
ameliorate of delay its progression
- symptomatic
- effects... reduce complications/ disability
Three levels of prevention: Primordial prevention - ANS ✔preventing risk factors from even
occurring- primary is preventing exposure to risk factors. Primordial eliminates them
completely... urban planning is an example
How does the spectrum of prevention activities can be used to change norms and support
individual choices - ANS ✔1. influencing policy and legislation
2. changing organizational practices
3. Fostering coalitions and networks
4. Educating providers
