Defining Public Health
The science and art of preventing disease, promoting health, and prolonging life for entire populations, focusing on community well-being through organized efforts like policy, education, and ensuring healthy environments
What is Public Health?
Differences in health that are closely linked to social or economic disadvantage
What are health disparities?
Air pollution, lack of paid leave and unequal pay are examples of these broader societal factors that negatively impact maternal health
What are social determinants of health?
What is a communicable disease?
What is the most common way Ebola is transmitted from person to person?
Epidemiology
What is a public health tool and research method?
The nonmedical, everyday conditions where people are born, live, learn, work, and age, significantly shaping their health
What are social determinants of health?
3.5 more likely to die giving birth
What is black women giving birth in the United States?
A significant increase in disease cases in a specific area (versus a world wide increase)
What is an epidemic?
Virus
What is the type of organism that causes ebola?
Prevention and policies that impact collective health (from The Invisible Shield documentary)
What is the first line of defense in public health?
Structural and system influences on health - happen above the level of individual choice (clue - has to do with a river)
What is upstream factors on health?
midwives and doulas
What is a health intervention that prevents maternal and infant mortality?
Isolation and quarantine, Immunization, Treatment and contact treatment
What are PH tools for infectious disease prevention
Liberia, Guinea and Sierra-Leone
What were countries impacted by the 2014 Ebola epidemic?
Assess, Policy Development, Assurance (according to Schneider and Kirkwood)
What are core functions of public health?
Economic, education, social and community, healthcare and environment
What are the 5 key areas of social determinants of health?
The US vs every other high-income country
What is the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality?
US government agency that is responsible for tracking and reporting surveillance data on infectious diseases ("America's sweetheart" oversees it's operations)
What is the CDC? (Center for Disease Control)
2-21 days after contact
How long before Ebola transmission is evident?
Deliberate production of illness, suffering and death, inequitable resources, lack of committment of needed resources, inadequate translation of public health knowledge into effective action.
What are barriers or challenge to public health?
Infant mortality, life expectancy, prevalence of chronic disease and insurance coverage
What are health inequities between racial and ethnic populations in the US?
systemic racism and structural barriers
The only infectious disease to be have been completely eradicated worldwide through mass vaccination efforts.
What is smallpox?
Food insecurity, military enforced quaranties, government shut-down, civil fear and unrest, community break-downs, curfews
What are negative impacts of the 2014 Ebola outbreak?