PLAN432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Improved Sanitation, Environmental Health, Antiseptic
20 Mar 2016
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Public health (field of) vs public health (profession) Study of health of groups of people rather than the individual. Epidemiology study of how and why diseases occur in a population and how to prevent them. What is the spatial distribution of disease. Work of protecting and improving the health of populations: educate and promote of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention, prevention programs, nurses, epidemiologists, technicians, program developers/evaluators. Realm of public health: infectious diseases, infection prevention and control, surveillance and epidemiology, health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention, environmental and occupational health, emergency preparedness and incident response. Public health in canada: public health agency of canada federal, implemented post sars. Priority-setting, research, program design, planning: public health ontario: provincial. Research, surveillance, laboratory, priority development: region of waterloo public health: municipal. A brief history of public health: airs, waters and places (hippocrates)
