HLT 2320 Chapter 1: Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention
19 Jan 2019
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Chapter 1: public health: science, politics, and prevention. Introduction: tuberculosis was the single largest cause of death in the mid-19th century, cholera, typhoid, and smallpox epidemics killed many people, public health: the measures that people take as a society to bring about and maintain. Injuries from unsafe working conditions were common and often fatal improvements in health: people most often look to government to take primary responsibility. Income level, minority groups: health services research, health policy and management, and health administration: studying the medical care system and its effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. Prevention and intervention: define the health problem, develop and test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the. Identify risk factors associated with the problem problem. Implement interventions to improve the health of the population: monitor those interventions to assess effectiveness, primary prevention: prevents an illness or injury from occurring at all, prevents exposure to risk factors, efforts to discourage smoking.
