Intro To Community Health Exam 1

The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group

Promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play

A major subfield study within the public health and the medical and clinical sciences which focuses on maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health status of population groups and communities

John Snow was an English physician and is considered to be one of founders of modern epidemiology. Discovered that the 1854 cholera outbreak in London was caused by a contaminated water supply.

1. Filling holes in the medical care system (1950's-mid 80's)
2. Health promotion and disease prevention (1980s-2000)
3. Population health (2000s)

Health, population(s), society's shared health concerns, vulnerable groups

Reduction of risk factors before the occurrence of disease, condition, or injury

Early detection of potential for development of a disease, condition, or injury

Treatment of an existing symptomatic disease process to ameliorate its effects, or delay, or prevent its progress

Conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. These affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks

1. Socio-economic status
2. Social environment
3. Physical environment

The immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops

differences in health outcomes among groups

Unnecessary, avoidable differences arising from poor governance, corruption, or cultural exclusion

Racism

An unscientific, socially constructed taxonomy that is based on an ideology that views some human population groups as inherently superior to others on the basis of external physical characteristics or geographic origin. Concept is socially meaningful but of limited biological significance.

social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Greater emphasis on cultural and behavioral attitudes, beliefs, lifestyle patterns, diet, and environmental living conditions.

The physical separation of the races in residential contexts

Marginalized group members are exposed to chronic social and economic adversities, beginning early in life, that lead to accelerated physical health decline in early adulthood.

Behavior
Infection
Genetics
Geography
Environment
Medical care
Socioeconomic-cultural

Education, income, and occupation

Actual or potential resources embedded within networks of relationships

Objective characteristics of the physical context in which people spend their time

State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

"the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of ever human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic, or social condition"