HLTB16H3 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Public Health, Health Promotion, Canada
12 Oct 2018
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HLTB16H3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Week 1
• Challenges in Canadian public health
o Concerns over equity
o Healthcare spending
o Philosophical implications
• Learning objectives
o 1. Define public health and distinguish it from population health
o 2. Describe essential public health functions and services
o 3. Critically assess the philosophies underlying public health
o 4. Be familiar with course policies and expectations.
• Disease
o Illess: sujetie sese of feelig uell; doest defie a pathology
(discomfort, tiredness)
o Sickness: social/ cultural conception; influences how pt. reacts/expresses
symptoms (menopause)
o Disease: pathological process; may produce symptoms (cancer)
• Evolving definitions of health
o 1800: Biological model of disease foused o odys futioality. Health as a
state of normal function disrupted by disease. Goal of treatment was to restore
normativity.
o 1948: WHO linked health to physical, mental and social wellbeing. Critiqued for
being unmeasurable
o 1980: Health promotion movement introduced health not as state, but process.
o 1984: WHO →health is a resource for life, not the objective of living
• Public Health
o Multidisciplinary
o Central principles include;
▪ Health promotion; Health protection; Population health surveillance;
prevention of death, disease, injury and disability
o Aims to maintain/improve health of populations
o Dynamic and debatable due to health requirement of populations
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• Public Health Philosophy
o 1. Social justice
o 2. Health equity
o 3. Social determinants of health
• Public health essential functions
o 1. Risk assessment
▪ Identifying health effects/hazards
▪ Hazard characterization
▪ Exposure assessment
▪ Risk characterization
o 2. Policy development
▪ Inform, educate, empower people about health issues
▪ Mobilize community partnerships to solve health issues
▪ Develop policies to support community health efforts
o 3. Assurance (program and evaluation)
▪ Health promotion programs to empower communities
▪ Health protection includes interventions to track negative influences
▪ Emergency response to harmful event
▪ Output measure: implement evaluation
▪ Outcome measures: outcome evaluation
o 4. Evidence base
▪ Serves all function; research new solutions to health issues
• Types of prevention
o Primary: prevents illness from occurring
o Secondary: detecting disease in early stage, before symptoms appear
o Tertiary: minimizes disability with medical care/rehabilitation
• Population health
o Supplementary perspective to public health
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Document Summary
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