SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Swine Influenza, Pest House, Health Promotion
15 Dec 2013
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Policies, programs and services designed to keep citizens healthy. Focus on enhancing health of general population. New things in public health, shift towards health promotion instead of disease reduction. Targets intervention on basis of epidemiological evidence. Statistical study of patterns of disease in the population. 4 historical regimes (armstrong) floucaudian sociologist of medicine: the quarantine regime, the sanitary science regime, the social medicine regime, the new public health regime. How public health has changed historically and reasons for that. Interested in changing conceptions of threats to health and what we should do in response and who should do it. Although armstrong is saying dominant regimes at different times, not like any of the regimes disappear. Sick should be kept isolated from the well. Idea that disease can be confined to particular geographical spaces. Relies on idea there are sick places and healthy places and need to stop traffic between the two. Straightforwardly restrictive regime, state forces to do things.
