PUBH 1001- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
Document Summary
Public health efforts focus on vulnerable populations. Public health: the totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts that preserve and promote health and prevent disease, disability, and death. Behavior- actions that increase exposure to the factors that produce disease. Infection- often the direct cause of disease. Genetics- focused our attention on roles that genetic factors play in the development and outcome of disease. Geography- geographic location influences the frequency and presence of disease. Environment-environmental factors determine disease and the course of it. Medical care- access to and the quality of medical care. Filling holes in the medical care system (1950-1980s) Population health approach: the big picture perspective that takes into account the full range of factors that affect health and consider their health interactions. Social justice: the idea that disease emergence from social conditions of inequality. Interventions: the full range of strategies designed to protect health and to prevent disease, disability, and death.
