PUBHLTH 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Leper Colony, Polio Vaccine, Ruling Class
Document Summary
Health and public health: basic facts and concepts chapters 1-4. People"s lives are basically healthier today than they were 150 years ago: cleaner water, air, and food; safe disposal of sewage; better nutrition; more knowledge concerning healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Measures that people take as a society to bring about and maintain that improvement are also known as public health. People mainly look to the government to solve public health concerns. The science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency. Ph vs medical care ph is not individualized. The greatest increases in life expectancy in all of history have occurred over the past 150 years. What is responsible for this huge improvement: sanitation. Improved understanding and eventually prevention and treatment of infectious diseases: economic and educational advancement, especially for girls and women. Over most of history, health viewed as a virtue, illness as punishment for sin.
