HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harm Reduction, Environmental Science, Biomedical Sciences
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Note: sentences in red are my notes written down during lecture while the professor is speaking; sentences written in blue are part of the final slides. Identifiable groups with consistently poorer health: cost implications of therapeutic innovations, illness, sickness, and disease. Definition: subjective feeling of unwell, does not define specific pathology, socially and culturally held conception, pathological process, may or may not produce symptoms. Exposure to pathogen preclinical phase: biological onset of disease (lagging time between biological onset of disease and when symptoms start to appear) clinical phase: Symptoms appear outcomes: cured, living with disease, deteriorated, died. If possible relapse, diagnosis is done again and change in therapy: public health. A rich neigbourhood would have more doctors available than a poor neighbourhood; public health aims to balance these inequities: social determinants of health, eg. Income, education: essential public health services, assessment, monitor health status of community to identify problems. Environmental science spread of disease through water, air, food.
