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Name the Ten Great Public Health Achievements
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1. Vaccination
2. Motor Vehicle Safety 3. Safer Work Places 4. Control of Infectious Disease 5. Decline in Deaths due to Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke 6. Safer Foods 7. Healthier Mothers and Babies 8. Family Planning 9. Fluoridation of Drinking Water 10. Recognition of tobacco as a health problem |
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health
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a dynamic state or condition of a human that is multidimensional
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How is health determined?
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by the interaction of
gestational endowments social circumstances environmental conditions behavioral choices availability of health care |
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community
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a group of people who have common characteristics
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How are communities characterized?
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1. membership
2.common symbols 3. shared values 4. mutual influence 5. shared needs 6. shared emotional connection |
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public health
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things that society does collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy
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public health system
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the organizational mechanism of those activities undertaken within the formal structure of governmental and the associated efforts of private and voluntary organizations and individuals
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community health
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the health status of a defined group of people and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
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population health
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the health status of people who are not organized and have no identity as a group or locality and the actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
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Name the factors that affect the health of a community
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physical
social and cultural community organizing individual behavior |
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Name the types of physical factors contributing to community health
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geography
environment community size industrial development |
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Name the types of social and cultural factors contributing to community health
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beliefs
economy politics religion social norms socioeconomic status |
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community organizing
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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 set
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herd immunity
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the resistance of a population to the spread of an infectious agent based on the immunity of a high portion of individuals
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What community health actions took place in ancient societies?
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sewage systems
Hammurabi's Code of Conduct Book of Leviticus |
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What community health actions took place in classical cultures?
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Greece: Physical Activities
Sanitation through wells Roman Empire: built aqueducts created hospital |
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What community health actions took place in the middle ages?
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spiritual era of public health
epidemics appeared (leprosy, plague, syphilis) |
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What community health actions took place in the renaissance period?
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belief that environmental factors contributed to disease
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What community health actions took place in the 18th century?
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industrial period
work places were dirty vaccinations census Marine Hospital Services municipal boards of health |
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What community health actions took place in the 19th century?
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governments approach laissez faire
modern era of public health |
