Health

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Advantages of the high risk approach to prevention of disease are:

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The intervention is appropriate to the individual

Front 2

How do Kelleher and MacDougall describe Health?

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A resource that permits people to lead an individually, socially and economically productive life. It is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capabilities.

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This lifestyle era was dominant in the 1970s and remains popular in public health/health promotion. It was characterised by:

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Building healthy public policy.

Front 4

What was Winslow’s definition of Public Health?

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The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort.

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What was Kelleher & MacDougall’s definition of Public Health?

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A social and political concept aimed at improving health, prolonging life and improving the quality of life among whole populations through health promotion, disease prevention and other forms of health intervention.

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What are core Public Health tools?

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 Communication Strategies
 Health Promotion Strategies
 Social and Behavioural theory and practice
 Policy, Public Health Law and Ethics

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What do Public Health professionals do?

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 Monitor and Evaluate
 Identify and eliminate environmental hazards
 Promote healthy practices and behaviours

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Who was Edwin Chadwick and what did he do?

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 Born in Manchester
 Lawyer
 Interested in political and social reform
 One of the most important health activists of the 1800s
 Conservative, Disease is a threat to society therefore deserves attention

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What did Fredrick Engels do?

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Reported on the situation between peoples working and living conditions and convinced that an improvement in these could help prevent disease.

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Who was Rudolph Verchow and what did he do?

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 German Physician
 Modernized water and sewer systems
 Credited to the founding of social medicine, believed social factors had an effect on health

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What did Jenner do in relation to the Small Pox epidemic?

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 Observed the effects of Small Pox and was curious as to why not all those who contracted it died.
 Created a vaccine which he was vilified for.

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Who was Semmelwets and what did he do?

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Hungarian doctor – obstetrics

Discovered that medical students were not washing their hands after touching cadavers and this was causing a rise in rate of infant and maternal mortality.

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Who was Snow and what did he do?

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 Was a surgeon
 Curious above the unproven theory of infections being spread through water
 Findings helped him to contribute to the Chloera epidemic.

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What is an Epidemic?

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A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.