HLPR211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Public Health, National Institutes Of Health, Stress Management
20 Feb 2020
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Public health approach: the public health approach, no one calls it that but we will for this class, define the problem/condition, define something to focus on. Implement on a greater scale: monitor the intervention, watch over time, did it work, impact pyramid , top is the least effective. Bottom is most effective but hardest to implement. Increasing individual effort at the top: from top to bottom: Education: clinical intervention, changing the environment/context to make healthy choices the default, changing socioeconomic conditions/factors. Long-term protective interventions: sleep insufficiency in class exercise, risk factors of sleep insufficiency (according to the cdc and nih) Bright lights: noise, uncomfortable sleeping environment, too hot, too cold, nicotine, day time sleeping, underlying medical conditions. Too much to do; not enough time: possible interventions specifically to ud. Ban coffee/caffeine: make beds in dorms more comfortable, give out sleeping pills. Teach time management and stress management: only offer classes at certain times, public health approach, define the problem.
