PUB HLT 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, Oxycodone, Mental Disorder
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Key features of definition: physical and mental well being, absence of diseases (i. e. prevention), homeostasis. Population health (vs. public health: important to have everybody healthy, not necessarily about what insurance can cover) A shared responsibility for public health (e. g. lead poisoning), _science of protecting and improving community health by: Using preventive medicine to reduce the community risk for various diseases. Educating the public about things they can do to improve their health (e. g. , diet, exercise, safer sex) _focused on population and communities, not just individuals. 97% spent on health and society, medical care. Health is still improving in the us, but: great variation by condition. Healthy years of life = health span (how many years you are functional and independent) not necessarily related to life span: differences by age. Higher mortality, though it"s not the best measure because some diseases may not result in death; dalys are more quantifiable, though not easy administratively.
