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Intro to public Health: Part 5

Terms in this set (21)

Containment measures
-survellience
-isolation
-quarantine
Quarantine
Separation of individual who has possibly been exposed to disease
Scurvy
-vas o de gama to discover passage by cape of good hope in 1497: 100 of 160 men died
James lind
-conducted first clinical trial
-put Sailors on different
-discovered receiving citrus fruits for better than those that did not remained sick
Rules regarding movement
-isolating individuals with disease
-attempts to separate communities from dieases with walls and barries
Smallpox
-incredibly contagious
What was England's #1 cause of death
Cholera
Cholera
-acute gastrointestinal disease
-student
-vomiting
-dirrahea
-cramps
-can spread quickly through a population
Cholera theories in 1854
Miasma theory: transmitted through air, punishment from God
John Snow
-identified etiology or cause of disease and risk factors
-snow removed water pump that was causing Cholera and legend has it this stopped epidemic
Public health
The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching diseases and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious dieases
What are benefits of public health
-helps keep kids healthy and communities strong
-saves lives
-saves money
Differences between public health and medicine
Public health focuses on population and wellness,
medicine focuses on individuals and sickness
Real changes
-changes in interest in identifying the diease
-changes in ability to identify the disease
-changes in definition of the disease
Health indicators/health status measures
Measurable factors that allow decision makers to objectively estimate the size of a health problem
life expectancy
-indicator of population health overall
-doesn't reflect impact of disabilities
`infant mortality rate
-indicator of population health
Incidence
# of new cases of disease over a defined study period/ # of people considered to be at risk for developing the disease
-measure of disease risk
Prevalence
-measure of disease burden
-# of existing cases of disease in a defined population at a specific point in time/ # of people in the entire defined population at the specified time
-prevalence increasing is not necessarily a bad thing
-number of people living with disease
Scalers
-allow us to adjust incidence and prevalence values so that they are more easily interpreted
Typical scalers
-1000
-10000
-100000
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