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Biomedical definition of health
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state of normal function that can be disrubted by disease
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WHO definition of health
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Physical, social and mental well being.
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Wellness
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Optimal health and vitality
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difference between wellness and health
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health-> stuff can happen that you cant control
Wellness-> its a bunch of decisions you make, you control |
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illness
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The symptoms that the patient feels.
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Sickness
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The social view of the condition.
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Disease.
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The actual biological disease (pathogen).
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Biomedical model of illness
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focusing on the disease, diagnosing it and treating it.
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Incubation period
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The period between the exposure to the pathogen and the start of the biological action of the disease (the beginning of the pre-clinical phase)
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Pre-clinical phase
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Period after the disease starts working but before the symptoms show.
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clinical phase
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Symptoms show, diagnosed, therapy begins.
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Impairment.
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loss or abnormality of something in the body or its function. (symptoms happen after impairment)
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Disability.
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restriction of ability to perform something because of an impairment.
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Handicap.
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when a disability/impairment limits or prevents fulfillment of a role.
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Causal factors triad.
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Agent, environment, host.
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Difference between determinants and risk factors.
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Determinants cause risk factors.
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Etiological phase
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Pre-disease stage. (includes social end enviromental factors, plus risk and protective factors). comes before the pre-clinical phase.
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Post-clinical phase
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The long term outcome of the aftermath of the disease. (even after recovering from it)
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Determinants of health (according to WHO)
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Social, environmental environments. biological and behavioral determinants.
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Difference between health determinants and the Causal factors triad?
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Health determinants just increase the risk, while causal factors are CAUSAL, meaning they WILL cause something to happen.
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PHAC
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Public Health Agency of Canada
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Difference between the health determinants of the WHO and the PHAC?
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WHO only 4 factors that are a big umbrella to everything. PHAC are alot including gender, culture, income, employment etc.
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Tribal stage (1st ever stage)
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First time where public health measures were developed
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Ancient greeks
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Personal hygiene, physical fitness, and healthy food were developed in this stage. Plus the naturalistic concept of ill health.
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Naturalistic concept of ill health.
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illness is due to imbalance between the human and his environment .
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Hippocrates.
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created western medicine, the term epidemic, and determined that illness is because of stuff (Causal factors like water,climate and nutrition.)
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Roman empire (23 BC- 476 AD).
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Great engineers (built aqueducts) and did restaurant inspections.
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Middle ages AKA Dark ages (476 AD-1450 AD)
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Decline of health, drifting away from greek and roman stuff. However Public health is used extensively for the first time (quarantining ships and separating the sick from the healthy).
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Renaissance (AD 1400-1600)
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Age of global exploration and spread of disease to the new world killing 90% of the new world inhabitants.
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Age of reason and enlightenment ( AD 1650-1800)
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Birth of modern medicine, including the vaccine (Edward Jenner, 1796). William Harvey did the first dissections to differentiate between the physiology of the human body.
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Great sanitary awakening (1800-1900)
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Growth in scientific knowledge, monitoring community health, connection between poverty and disease.
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Dr. John snow
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First epidemiologist, was concerned about a cholera outbreak in town, tracked it down and took of the water pipe that caused it. (First public health intervention)
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Louis Pasteur
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Discovered that germs cause many diseases he did the first public health lab
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Robert koch
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Discovered that vibrio cause cholera and bacteria cause TB
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