HED 044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moe Williams, Public Health, Infection
2 Nov 2020
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Public health should be a way of doing justice, a way of asserting the value and priority of all human life. Dream of public health: preventable death and disability should be minimized. Political conservatives: limit public health to a technical enterprise, focused on controlling communicable disease, or safety net that provides medical care to the indigent. This restrictive view of ph was encouraged by physicians, concerned about government encroachment on their economic and professional independence. Limitations on federal funding to local public health departments 1930-1940. The common good (the value and priority of human life) Questions about the scope of public health- politically controversial \ People with higher incomes tend to be healthier for a variety of reasons . Ses is such a powerful risk factor for negative health outcomes that it is almost always controlled for in research but is rarely studied itself.
