EDKP 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Soho, Health Promotion, Public Health

• School: McGill University
• Department: Kinesiology&Physical Education
• Course: EDKP 330
• Professor: David J Pearsall

Document Summary

The stud of how disease is distributed in the population and the factors that influence or determine this distribution. Looks at: frequencies/types, groups with/at risk of disease, factors influencing their distribution, finding causes and prevention. Premis behind it: disease, illness are not randomly distributed in the population. We have certain characteristics which make us more or less prone. Public health: science and practice of protecting, promoting, and improving the health of a population and community. Main difference b/w public heath and medicine: public health less focused on individuals and treatment and more so on population and prevention focused more on the health of the public as a whole. Cholera outbreak (1854: john snow: figured out that water was the source of the spreading, not the spirits of the plague as originally thought. He figured it out by making a map of where the most deaths occurred, and he found that it occurred mostly around the main pump (broad street pump)