PSY 399 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Poliomyelitis Eradication, Curative Care, Micronutrient Deficiency
12 Apr 2018
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Global health can be viewed in several ways. A notion: current state of global health. An objective: a world of healthy people, a condition of global health. Mix of scholarship, research and practice (with many questions, issues, skills and competencies. Public health in the modern sense emerged in mid-19th century. As both a social reform movement and growth of biological and medical knowledge. Farr, chadwick, virchow, koch, pasteur, and shattuck helped to establish the discipline on the basis of four factors: Decision making based on data and evidence. Vital statistics, surveillance and outbreak investigations, laboratory science. A goal of social justice and equity. An emphasis on prevention rather than curative care. Us institute of medicine (iom), in its 1988 future of public health report,4 described public health in terms of its mission. Fulfilling society"s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy . One of efforts to protect, promote and restore the people"s health.
