HED 044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Health, Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report, Moe Williams

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Health Education
• Course: HED 044
• Professor: Moore

Document Summary

These things are done in communities and populations. Goal of medicine is diagnosis, treatment, therapy and patient care. Diagnoses the health of the community using public health sciences. Treatment of the community involves new policies and interventions. Goal of public health is prevention of disease and disability. Public health science is responsible for the prevention and early diagnosis of community trends and factors that can lead to a diseased population. Medicine is the treatment of the disease once it has already developed and symptoms are shown and is on the individual level. Case study 1 hiv epidemic in the united states. June 5, 1981 cdc reports in the mmwr (morbidity and mortality weekly report) that pcp had been found in five young gay men. June 5-july 3, 1981 ap, la times, sf chronicle and nyt report on the mmwr and growing cases of what is later termed hiv/aids. Aids cases begin to grow over time.