pop health

culture

• beliefs, values, norms, practices, and behaviors shared by a group of people

• its important for providers to integrate cultural sensitivity

Social determinants

• Non medical factors that influence health outcomes (where ppl are born, grow up, live, learn, work and play).

• shaped by a wider set of forces; economics, social policies, politics

• contribute to diseases rooted in lifestyle, enviormental, and social factors

• physical and mental health

evidence based public health

perie process

problem

what is the health problem

etiology

what is the contributory cause

recommendations

what works to reduce the health impacts

implementation

how can we get the job done

evaluation

how well does/do the interventions work in practice

perie goal

to address a wide range of public health issues

public health

protecting/improving the health of population through prevention, health education, policy and research

• improving the health of entire community/society

population health

focuses on health outcomes of a specific group or population

• looking at a group based on geographic location, socio status, or other common factors

public health data

collected, published, and distributed without identifying specific individuals

social/behavioral science

study of how human behavior impacts person thoughts, decisions, interactions and actions. It examines the social and environmental factors that influence health outcomes and behaviors.

levels of evidence

intrapersonal, interpersonal, population and community

intrapersonal

focusing on individual characteristics

• knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, motivations, self-concept, past experiences, skills

interpersonal

focusing on relationships between people

• other people influence behavior by sharing their thoughts, advice, feelings and emotional supprot

population and community

focusing on factors within social structures

• norms, rules, regulations, policies, laws

healthcare decisions

involving choice made by individuals, families, or providers that impact health and well being.

• based on a combination of factors: clinical evidence, patient preferences, values, available resources, and social/enviormental factors

public health

• enviormental, social, and economic determinants of health

• interventions to address health issues, including the structure and function of healthcare delivery systems

John snow

father of epidemiology

Edward jenner

created the smallpox vaccine

1800’s

started the development of birth and death certificates.

big gems

behavior, infection, genetics, geography, environment, medical care, socioeconomic- cultural

health communication

addresses how we perceive, combine, and use information to make decisions

dread effect

hazards that easily produce very visual and feared consequences

unfimiliarity effect

hazard we lack experience with may elicit more fear

uncontrollability effect

hazards out of our control are percieved as more threatning

social system

a patterned series of interrelationships existing between individuals, groups, and instiu=tutions and forming a coherent whole