HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motorcycle Helmet, Bicycle Helmet

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 101
• Professor: Elaine Power

Document Summary

Public health refers to the health of a population, the longevity of its members and the exents to which they are free of disease. Improved conditions for workers: control of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, typhus. 2000- e. coli contaminated water (incompetent manager & staff at walkerton public utilities. Main goal of public health: improve the health status of the population by reducing disease and early deaths in populations. Recognize the importance of individual contributions to injury & disease but more interested in understanding how to reduce or alleviate hazards by addressing underlying causes. Health benefits to the population is not the same as beenfits to the individual. Pater(cid:374)alis(cid:373): restri(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s li(cid:271)ert(cid:455) (cid:894)freedo(cid:373)(cid:895) to pro(cid:373)ote his or her o(cid:449)(cid:374) idea of (cid:449)ell- being. Anti-smoking legislation, motorcycle helmet laws, bicycle helmet laws for youth. A relatively coherent system ofvalues, beliefs, or ideas shared by some social group and often taken for granted as natural or inherently true.