Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Icu Scoring Systems, Flexner Report, Abraham Flexner
5 Nov 2012
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Specific etiology specific cause of specific disease. Improved: public housing, food regulation, education, sanitation reforms. Environmental issues associated with the social determinants of health. Structural forms of social organization shape our lives. Build healthy public policy: legislation, fiscal measures, taxation and organizational change. Create supportive environments: work and leisure should be a source of health for people. Systematic assessment of the health impact of a rapidly changing environment (technology, energy production, work, urbanization) are essential. Strengthen community actions: their ownership and control of their own endeavours to enhance self-help and social support. Develop personal skills: providing information, education for health, and enhancing life skills, for people to exercise more control over their own health and over their environments. Reorient health services: stronger attention to health research and organization of health services which refocuses on the total needs of the individual as a whole person.
