PUBH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Infection, Frostbite, Demographic Transition
5 Mar 2018
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It includes a focus on the potential impacts of climate change, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, and the consequences of trade in potentially contaminated or dangerous products, ranging from food to toys. It utilizes an evidence-based approach to analyze the determinants of health and disease and the options for intervention to preserve and improve health. It also provides strategies for considering the broad range of potential interventions to address these issues. Interventions: the full range of strategies designed to protect health and prevent disease, disability, and death. Includes preventive efforts such as nutrition and vaccination; curative efforts, such as antibiotics and cancer surgery; and efforts to prevent complications and restore function-from chemo to physical therapy. What are the implications of each of the four components of public. It assumes that everyone is at some degree of risk and the risk increases with the extent of exposures (risk factors)
