Module 2 Health Education Flashcards

This report, published in 1974 by the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare, presented epidemiological evidence supporting the importance of lifestyle and environmental factors to health and sickness

LaLonde

This time period was characterized by the gradual rebirth of thinking about the world and humankind in a more naturalistic and holistic fashion

The renaissance

Associated with the Age of Enlightenment, it was the belief that disease was formed in filth and that epidemics were caused by some type of poison that developed in the putrefaction process

Miasmas Theory

Proposed the germ theory of disease, introducing the first scientific approach to immunization and developed a technique to pasteurize milk.

Pasteur

Contained laws pertaining to health practices and physicians including the first known fee schedule

Code of Hammurabi

This indicated problems in the organization and administration of school health programs and later developed a comprehensive curriculum package that still influences school health curricula today.

School Of Health Education Study

This “world” event turned the national focus to physical fitness and health due to degeneration of the health of young American men and the large number unfit to serve in the military.

World War II

Occurring during the Middle Ages; also known as the Black Death. May have been most severe epidemic the world has ever known, killing between one quarter and one third of some populations

Bubonic Plague

During the Middle Ages, Christian beliefs impacted health and it was thought that disease was caused by _____ or disobeying God.

Sin

During the 1800's, this was believed to cause many public health problems such as smallpox, cholera, typhoid, and tuberculosis (

Overcrowding

uring the “Early Cultures” __________ served as physicians.

Priests

First epidemiologist and the father of modern medicine. Observed and recorded associations between certain diseases and such factors as geography, climate, diet, and living conditions. The first to distinguish ‘endemic’ diseases and ‘epidemic’ diseases

Hippocrates

Developed an extensive system of underground sewers and public and private baths. They were also the first to build hospitals.

Romans

The era from the collapse of the Roman Empire in 500 B.C. to about A.D. 1500

Middle Ages

Staff and serpent of the physician, was a symbol of the temples of Asclepius

Caduceus

Was the first major recognition of the importance of lifestyle in promoting health and well-being in the U.S.

Healthy People

Basis for medical ethics

Hippocratic oath

Was responsible for changing the name from hygiene education to health education, emphasizing healthy living and health behavior rather than physiology and hygiene (full name, 3 words)

Sally Lucas Jean

Occurring in 1935, this made funding available for state health departments and their programs, including sanitary facilities and maternal and child health

Social Security Act

Hypothesized that cholera was caused by microorganisms in the drinking water from one particular pump – removing the pump handle abated the epidemic

Snow

This occurred during the Middle Ages and is also known as Black Death. One of the most severe epidemics the world has every known.

Bubonic Plague

The capacity of individuals to access, interpret, and understand basic health information and services, and the skills to use the information and services to promote health.

Health Literacy

Developed the Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts which jump-started the public health reform movement in the United States, providing a vision for how to improve the public’s health

Shattuck

The first people to emphasize prevention rather than treatment of disease. They also emphasized the concept of balance between the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of the person

The greeks

In 1997, this was granted an occupational classification, meaning it would be included in any occupational data collected by the federal government.

Health education

From 1875-1900 was know as the _______________ Period of Public Health as advancements in the study of bacteria were made.

Bacteriological

Published his Report on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain which documented the deplorable conditions of the laboring class of Great

Britain. This document made a strong case that the conditions were the cause of much disease and suffering (

Chadwick

The first spokesperson for teaching health in schools. He was elected secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education in 1837 and called for mandatory hygiene programs that

would help students understand their bodies and the relationship between their behaviors and health

Mann

During the 1700’s, the primary means of controlling disease were ____________ and regulations on environmental cleanliness.

Quarantines

Daughter of Asclepius, was given the ability to treat disease

Panacea

Daughter of Asclepius, was given the ability to prevent disease

Hygeia