Health
Absence of illness or disease.
What is health under the medical model?
Encompass the physical, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and sociocultural dimensions of life.
What are environmental factors?
Since 1979
Since what year did United States undertake a series of 10-year plan outlining ket national health objectives?
In 1870
What year was medical training largely received through individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician?
Marked by the growth and development of a medical profession.
What was the postindustrial era marked by?
When a person is free of symptoms and does not require treatment.
What is optimal health?
It includes diet, exercise, stress, risky unhealthy behaviors, and other choices that contribute to health problems.
What are behavior and lifestyle health factors?
(1) encourage collaborations across. communities and sectors; (2) Empower individuals to make informed health decisions; (3) To measure the impact of prevention activities.
What were the 3 goals of Healthy People initiatives?
It was more regarded as trade rather than a profession.
What was the early practice of medicine more regarded as?
Aftermath of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
When did much of the transformation in the U.S. medicine occur?
When a person is unable preform their social roles.
When is a person considered sick?
Genetic factors the predispose individuals to certain diseases.
What are hereditary factors?
A group of organizations committed to promoting Healthy People 2020.
What is the healthy people consortium?
A lunatic asylum.
What was an asylum often refereed as?
It created increased reliance on the specialized skills of paid professionals.
What did urbanization create?
Holistic medicine.
What medicine seeks to treat the whole person?
It's important for individuals to take responsibility for their health and well being.
Why can't healthcare services alone ensure optimal health?
Focuses on improving population health and well-being.
What is Public Healths focus?
To isolate people who've contracted a contagious disease.
What was a pesthouse used for?
The preoccupation with science and technology.
What in the American culture brought numerous benefits, but also produced undesirable effects?
A persons perceptions and and evaluation on he or she feels.
How is illness recognized?
Environment, behavior and lifestyle, hereditary, and medical care.
What are the 4 determinants health?
A framework embodying social and medicals determinants.
What can improve our nations health and minimize health disparities amongst the vulnerable population?
Outpatient clinics to provide free care to those who could not afford to pay.
What were dispensaries established as?
The American Medical Association (AMA).
What played a critical role in in galvanizing the medical profession and protect the interests of physicians?