Public Health Achievements
The public health achievement that benefitted people across the socioeconomic spectrum.
What is the fluoridation of the water supply?
The health status of a given population or community.
What is population health?
A perspective that explains that our health is produced though a variety of levels.
What is the eco-social perspective?
Preventing problems before they appear.
What is primary prevention?
Vaccination promotion ad. on TV
Universal prevention strategy
These are public health concerns experienced climbing rates in the first half of the 20th century.
What are NCDs and specifically heart disease?
Promote and protect the health in the community
What is the role of public health?
Having a smoke-free home illustrates prevention at this eco-social level.
What is a family level?
When a disease is prevented from progressing, through disease control.
What is a tertiary prevention strategy?
Strategies to minimize disease and injury at a population level
What is prevention?
What are issues of concern for the newly named U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) in 1912?
sanitation, safe water, waste disposal, infectious diseases (e.g., TB)
The organization that was the beginning of public health in the United States.
What is the U.S. Marine Hospital Service?
Another name for the eco-social perspective.
What is the multilevel approach?
An example of this type of prevention would be screening for high blood pressure.
What is secondary prevention?
To prevent disease, and preserve, promote, restore and protect health for the community and the population within it.
What is the GOAL of public health?
Interventions that helped decrease deaths in cardiovascular disease and stroke. (At least 2)
What are lifestyle modifications, improved blood pressure control and smoking cessation?
A collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common.
What is a population?
The perspective that states that our health is produced throughout our life.
What is the life course perspective?
The core principles for public health.
What are prevention & health equity?
primary prevention: upstream
Tertiary prevention: downstreamWhat are the leading causes of death in the 1900s and 2000s?
1900s: Influenza and pneumonia, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections, and diphtheria
2000s: NCD, i.e., heart diseases
An important skill to develop, to understand that the causes of health in population are different than the causes of health in individuals.
What is population health thinking?
When an exposure occurs at a particular moment and can affect future health outcomes.
What is the critical period model?
These concepts are not synonymous- one is value-based, the other is an empiric measure.
What are health equity and health equality?
Healthy people making up healthy populations create productive workforces and thriving communities.
What is the Ultimate Goal of Population Health?