HSCI 130- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 130
• Professor: Robert Hogg

Document Summary

Public health = to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability (cdc mission statement) The approach to public health according to the cdc: 1) data collection = surveillance, determine time, place, and person. 3) hypothesis testing = determine how and why. 500 bce here"s and romans practice community sanitation measures. 1840"s : the public health act of 1848 was established in the united kingdom. 1970"s: the environmental protection agency was founded. Influenza: 500 million infected worldwide polio: vaccine introduced in 1955; eradication initiative launched in 1988. Hiv: 34 million living with hiv worldwide; 20% decline in new infections since 2001. Biologic warfare: plague used as a weapon of war during the siege of kaffa. September 2001: public health surveillance conducted after 9/11 attacks. Hurricane katrina: emergency services, public health surveillance and disease treatment provided. Book of leviticus: the worlds first written health code. Tobacco laws: laws banning smoking in public spaces.