PHS 201 Lecture 1: Intro to public health Exam 1

• School: Elon University
• Department: Public Health Studies
• Course: PHS 201
• Professor: Stephanie Baker

Document Summary

Puerperal fever & maternal mortality (connection-saw healthcare providers spreading disease/bacteria) Created too much focus on gay white men, disease shifted now to straight black women. Epidemiological methods led to connection between cigarette smoke & lung cancer. Exporting poor healthy with expanding fast food chains. Prevention paradox: higher cholesterol absolutely has a greater chance of death, but people who have a medium amount of cholesterol will contribute more to the population death because of the higher prevalence. Education and health: teaches healthy behavior, occasionally only access to lunch/food, sex education, increases income, councilors, freedom from unhealthy environments, off the streets. Determinants how do we know what in uences health outcomes: big gems. Socio-economic-cultural: differences between countries, social ecological model: individual/intrapersonal(choice to breastfeed), interpersonal(others doing it in community), organizational/institutional(safe places to do it), community(societal outlook on breastfeeding), policy(through affordable care act, you can get a free breast pump)