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Community Health 331

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Community Health
the health status of a defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health.
Physical Factors affecting community health
geography, community size, industrial development, and environment.
Public Health
actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can be healthy can occur; the most inclusive term
Community
is a group of people who have common characteristics; can be defined by location, race, ethnicity, age, occupation, interest in particular problems or outcomes, or common bonds
Community can be characterized by
membership, common symbol systems, shared values and norms, mutual influence, shared needs and commitment to meeting them, shared emotional connection.
10 Great Public Health Achievements
1. Vaccination
2. Motor vehicle safety
3. safer workplaces
4. control of infectious diseases
5. decline of deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke
6. safer and healthier foods
7. healthier mothers and babies
8. family plannings
9. fluoridation of drinking water
10. recognition of tobacco use as a health hazzard
population health
health status of people who are not organized; have no identity as a group
social and cultural factors
- beliefs, traditions, and prejudices
- economy
- politics
- religion
- social norms
- socioeconomic status
community organizing
a process through which communities are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals they have collectively set
The Eighteenth century 1796
Dr. Edward Jenner successfully demonstrated the process of vaccination as a protection of smallpox
The Eighteenth century 1790
following the American Revolution, George W. ordered the first U.S. census for the purpose of the apportionment of representation in the House of Rep.
The Nineteenth Century 1850
Modern Era of Public Health begins- the era of public health that began in 1850 and continues today
bacteriological period of public health
the period of 1875-1900, during which the causes of many bacterial diseases were discovered
Dr John Snow
1854 predated the discovery that microorganisms can cause disease; a cholera epidemic struck London and he studied this epidemic and hypothesized that the disease was being caused by the drinking water in Broad st, pump.
The Twentieth century
leading cause of death was communicable diseases
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