NATS 1605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Health Organization, Our Common Future, Hygieia

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1605
• Professor: Charles Antoine Rouyer

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Health can be defined as physical, mental, and social state of well-being according to the world. Health organisation, as well as emotional, financial, and spiritual wellbeing. Public health pendulum: (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s: the a(cid:374)itary idea (cid:894)e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal prote(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:895) 1844: dec 11th- health of towns association. Exeter town hall, south west of london. Poor urban living conditions encourage the appearance of disease. Stopped people from drinking from the infected well. Speech at social science association meeting: 1881: the germ theory (personal prevention/vaccination) Personal prevention through immunization and the germ theory kick out the sanitary idea of environmental protection: 1928: the magic bullet (curative treatment) Alexander fleming discovers how a mold produces a potent antibacterial substance, penicillin (antibiotic) People (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed that this (cid:449)as a (cid:862)(cid:272)ure-all(cid:863: (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)"s: the ne(cid:449) pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) health (cid:894)e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal prote(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:895) 1978: health for all (who, alma, ata, ussr) 1984: beyond health care conference (toronto, ca) 1986: ottawa charter for health promotion (ottawa, ca) 1987: our common future (brundlandt report, u. n)