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NURS/PHCG1210 Public Health in a Global Society Questions
with 100% VERIFIED Answers UPDATED!!!
Definition of health (WHO) - ANSWER A state of complete
physical, mental and social well being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Conception of WHO health definition - ANSWER no
environment to finance or resources discussed
-the how is completely missing
- no talk of intellectual or spiritual
- collective vs individual
Definition of Public Health - ANSWER Public health is the set of
activities a society undertakes to monitor and improve the
health its collective members.
Prof Charles Winslow definition - ANSWER "The science and art
of preventing disease, prolonginglife, and promoting health
through the organized effortsand informed choices of society,
organizations, publicand private, communities and individuals."
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Definition of Global Health - ANSWER Global health is an area
for study, research, and practicethat places a priority on
improving health and achievingequity in health for all people
worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health
issues, determinants, and solutions
The Mission of Public Health - ANSWER Institute of Medicine:
"fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which
people can be healthy"
World Health Organization: "Public Health aims to provide
maximum benefit for the largest number of people"
what is health Equity - ANSWER When all people have "the
opportunity to 'attain their full health potential' and no one is'
disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their
social position or other socially determined circumstance'"
Health Equity is social justice in public health" -
distinct work of public health - ANSWER - population
- public service
- disease prevention & health promotion
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- broad base involving environment, lifestyle and medical care
Major periods of Public Health - ANSWER - pre- 19th Century(
before 1800s)
- 1840- 1890 (Sanitary Movement )
- 1890-1910 ( Bacteriology)
- 1910- 1970( New Public Health)
- 1970s and onward( Modern Public Health)
Foundational Shifts - ANSWER 1) Growth of scientific knowledge
2) Public acceptance that disease control was possible and
disease control was a public responsibility
Before the 1800s what was the moral judgments and early
experiments? - ANSWER - epidemic disease was judged as a
sign of poor moral or spiritual condition
- no means to test associations between exposure and
outcomes
- late 18th century there were efforts to isolate and quarantine
the ill
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What were the efforts of the Pre 19th century? - ANSWER -
inspectors to prevent food adulteration
-early efforts to curb industry pollution of environment
- collection. of coal statistics, 1630s, MA first state to require
reporting of births, deaths, marriages
- Early inoculations
- street cleaning and garbage removal
-some public steer wells
- Hospitals
- Jermey Bentham- utilitarianism and good governance
What is the "great Sanitary Awakening"? - ANSWER Sanitary
Movement ( 1840-1890)
- filth discovered as important cause of disease
- cleanliness identified as central objective of public health( also
seen as moral change )
Theories of disease Causation:
Miasmas- conditions of the atmosphere, associated with
decaying waste which justified sanitary approach
- contagions- specific contagions which justified quarantine
NURS/PHCG1210 Public Health in a Global Society Questions
with 100% VERIFIED Answers UPDATED!!!
Definition of health (WHO) - ANSWER A state of complete
physical, mental and social well being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Conception of WHO health definition - ANSWER no
environment to finance or resources discussed
-the how is completely missing
- no talk of intellectual or spiritual
- collective vs individual
Definition of Public Health - ANSWER Public health is the set of
activities a society undertakes to monitor and improve the
health its collective members.
Prof Charles Winslow definition - ANSWER "The science and art
of preventing disease, prolonginglife, and promoting health
through the organized effortsand informed choices of society,
organizations, publicand private, communities and individuals."
,2|Page
Definition of Global Health - ANSWER Global health is an area
for study, research, and practicethat places a priority on
improving health and achievingequity in health for all people
worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health
issues, determinants, and solutions
The Mission of Public Health - ANSWER Institute of Medicine:
"fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which
people can be healthy"
World Health Organization: "Public Health aims to provide
maximum benefit for the largest number of people"
what is health Equity - ANSWER When all people have "the
opportunity to 'attain their full health potential' and no one is'
disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their
social position or other socially determined circumstance'"
Health Equity is social justice in public health" -
distinct work of public health - ANSWER - population
- public service
- disease prevention & health promotion
,3|Page
- broad base involving environment, lifestyle and medical care
Major periods of Public Health - ANSWER - pre- 19th Century(
before 1800s)
- 1840- 1890 (Sanitary Movement )
- 1890-1910 ( Bacteriology)
- 1910- 1970( New Public Health)
- 1970s and onward( Modern Public Health)
Foundational Shifts - ANSWER 1) Growth of scientific knowledge
2) Public acceptance that disease control was possible and
disease control was a public responsibility
Before the 1800s what was the moral judgments and early
experiments? - ANSWER - epidemic disease was judged as a
sign of poor moral or spiritual condition
- no means to test associations between exposure and
outcomes
- late 18th century there were efforts to isolate and quarantine
the ill
, 4|Page
What were the efforts of the Pre 19th century? - ANSWER -
inspectors to prevent food adulteration
-early efforts to curb industry pollution of environment
- collection. of coal statistics, 1630s, MA first state to require
reporting of births, deaths, marriages
- Early inoculations
- street cleaning and garbage removal
-some public steer wells
- Hospitals
- Jermey Bentham- utilitarianism and good governance
What is the "great Sanitary Awakening"? - ANSWER Sanitary
Movement ( 1840-1890)
- filth discovered as important cause of disease
- cleanliness identified as central objective of public health( also
seen as moral change )
Theories of disease Causation:
Miasmas- conditions of the atmosphere, associated with
decaying waste which justified sanitary approach
- contagions- specific contagions which justified quarantine
