BPK 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hand Washing, Health Belief Model, Cell Culture
27 Nov 2020
School
Department
Course
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BPK 140
Sept. 5 2019 – Lecture #1
Penny Deck
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Lecture #1 – What is Health?
What is health?
What does it mean to you?
Models of Health
-It’s a representation
-Not 100% accurate
-But gives us an understanding of health
Medical Model
-doctor are all knowing, patients know nothing
-once patient is normal again, treatment stops
Changing Patterns of Disease
-60 years mortality rate 20 years ago
-today over 80 years old
-change in public health policies
-understanding disease
-separation of sewage from drinking water
-improvement in the environment
-1850 babies in rich hospitals had a higher mortality rate than poorer hospitals where babies
were born by midwives. Found that rich doctors were doing autopsies before delivering babies,
this started the handwashing between patients policies
-sanitisation of surgical instruments
Risk Factor Model
-genetics, what you eat, where you live (air quality, drinking water), occupation (higher risk of
radiation, bus driver), income,
Wellness Model
-holistic model
-more than one thing that is involved in health
-health is not just the absence of disease
What is Health?
-Dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, social,
intellectual, occupational, emotional, environmental & spiritual dimensions
Document Summary
1850 babies in rich hospitals had a higher mortality rate than poorer hospitals where babies were born by midwives. Found that rich doctors were doing autopsies before delivering babies, this started the handwashing between patients policies. Genetics, what you eat, where you live (air quality, drinking water), occupation (higher risk of radiation, bus driver), income, More than one thing that is involved in health. Health is not just the absence of disease. Dynamic, ever-changing process of trying to achieve individual potential in the physical, social, intellectual, occupational, emotional, environmental & spiritual dimensions. Different causes of death between infants, teenagers (accidental death, suicide), adults and elders (stroke, cancer) Empowering individuals to have control over and improve their health who. Only focuses on the individual, not looking at our environment and community, need help sometime either to know they need help or to help afford health care. Reducing the different in health status and equal opportunities for different economic status.
