HLTB16H3 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Public Health, Canada, Infection
12 Oct 2018
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MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Public Health Week 1: Lecture 1:
Introduction & Course objectives
• We assume our living conditions are basically healthy
• Over the last 50 years, Canadians experienced increased levels of health, life expectancy
and well – being
• Our scope of medicine is widening but
o Challenges remain:
1. Concerns over equity
• Not everyone has equal benefit
• Identifiable groups poorer health than the average
2. Health care spending
• Scarce resources get used by high risk patients
• Limits access to health care across population
3. Philosophical implications
• Palliate avoidable problems arising from unhealthy lifestyles
• Social accountability
Disease Related Concepts:
Illness:
• Subjective sense of feeling unwell
• Does not define a specific pathology
• E.g. discomfort, tiredness, malaise
Disease:
• Pathological process
• Disease may or may not produce symptoms
• E.g., hypothyroidism, breast cancer, HIV infection
Sickness:
• Social and cultural conceptions of health conditions
• Influence how patient reacts to and expresses symptoms
• E.g. menopause in North America vs. Japan
Health related concepts:
• 1984:
o World Health Organization:
o Linked health to well-being
o Phsial, etal, ad soial ell-eig, ad ot erel the asee of disease
o Criticized as being unmeasurable
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• 1984:
o World Health Organization:
o the etet to hih a idiidual or group is ale to realize aspiratios ad
satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment
o Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living: it is a positive
concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities
• 1980:
o Health Promotion:
o Health promotion movement
o Introduced health not as a state but a process
o Health ieed as a resoure for liig
• 1800s
o Biological Model of Disease:
▪ Foused o the od’s ailit to futio
▪ Health was a state of normal function disrupted by pathological
processes
▪ Goal of treatment to restore physiological integrity
Public Health:
Central tenets of all initiatives
• Health promotion
• Health protection
• Population Health Surveillance
• Prevention of death, disease, injury and disability
• Aims to maintain and improve health of populations, not individuals
• Combination of programs, services and policies that prevent disease, prolong life,
promote health
• Dynamic and debatable due to health requirements of population
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