Chapter 1 Learning Objectives: Public Health: The Population Health Approach

Identify multiple ways that public health affects daily life

access to health facilities; access to medical care; health agencies to regulate medicine and drugs; clean water, clean environment and ecosystems; dietary restricitons to eliminate food disease.

health protection era

authority based control of individuals and community behaviors

hygiene movement era

sanitary consitions are the foundation of public health

contagion control era

germ theory, and the demonstation of infectious origins of disease

filling in holes era

controlling communicable diseases, modifying risk factors, caring for high-risk populations

health promotion/disease prevention era

focusing on individual behaviors and disease detection in vulnerable and general populations

population health era

coordination of public health and health care delivery based upon evidence based thinking

define population health

improving community health and the spectrum of factors affecting health

health care strategy

the one-on-one delivery of services

traditional public health strategy

a population-based preventive perspective utilizing interventions

social intervention strategy

achieving other non-health goals

identify a range of determinants of disease

BIG GEMS; behavior, infection, genetics, geography, environment, medical care, socioeconomic-cultural

identify ways that populations change over time and how that affects health

high birth rates paired with low death rates; declinesin birth rates; larger aging population; epidemiological and nutritional transition