CPH

• People believed in “deity” supernatural well being.
• Monitoring the health status of the community and providing means that will ensure of sustaining health
• People who are ill are believed to be punished by supernatural well being.
• People started to settle and gather together in communal living, such as tribes.
• Certain group of people emerged as “Shaman” or medicine men, who became natural healers.
• Geophagy is the ingestion of clay or earth.
• Trepanation is the process of drilling a hole into human skull, done to release evil spirit dwelling within the person.
• Hippocrates, known as the Father of medicine, contributed largely to the professionalization of medicine and is credited with the book “De Aere,Aquis Et Locis” which states that disease develop because of our environment and not because of some form of divine.
• After the Egyptian period, the Romans were their closest rival, and eventually Greek physicians paved the way for modern medicine.
• The most notorious epidemic was the “Black plague” also known as the Bubonic Plague, which decimated one third of Europe population over the span of 5 years, and was caused by the bacteria yersinia pestis, transmitted through flea bites.
• Community health provides means and facilities for livelihood.
• Public Health also involves institutionalizing lessons learned through policies and structures that will prevent diseases.
• Community health is a subset of Public Health.
• Its members know and interact with each other.
• Community health provides opportunities for employment.
• A community functions within a particular structure and exhibits and creates certain norms, values and social institutions.
• Community health takes care off socialization and education of its members.
• In the 20-21st Century, emerging diseases such as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) are caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and are transmitted via unprotected sex, contaminated blood transfusion, hypodermic needles and mother to child during pregnancy, delivery and even breastfeeding.
• Anti-retroviral treatment has shown to reduce the risk and complication due to AIDS.
• Community health provides space for housing, shelter, socialization and recreation.
• Charles Edward Amory Winslow is the Father of Public Health.
• A community is a social group determined by geographical boundaries and/or common values and interest.
• Public Health deals with the surveillance of emergence of disease, identification of disease among community members, investigating factors that contribute to the existence of disease, educating the community regarding ways that will prevent them from acquiring diseases, creation of strategies that will ensure sustained well-being among the community, and provision of health services to address community members who already have the diseases.
• The Philippines, under the American colonizers, established the “Board of Health for the Philippines Islands”, which eventually became the “Department of Health”.
• The first secretary of the Department of Health was Dr. Jose Fabella.
• After World War II, the World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948, and two years earlier, the Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) was established in Atlanta, USA.
• In 1978, the “Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Care” was made, stating that health is a human right and pushing for “Health for all” by the year 2000.
• In 1982, the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (Unicef) came up with the GOBI, which stands for Growth Monitoring Oral Rehydration Therapy, Breastfeeding and Immunization.
• Community health provides space for housing, shelter, socialization and recreation.
• Community health provides means and facilities for livelihood.
• Community health provides opportunities for employment.
• Community health takes care off socialization and education of its members.
• Community health is a subset of Public Health.
• Charles Edward Amory Winslow is the father of Public Health and defined it as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation.
• Public Health deals with the surveillance of emergence of disease, identification of disease among community members, investigating factors that contribute to the existence of disease, educating the community regarding ways that will prevent them for acquiring diseases, creation of strategies that will ensure sustained well-being among the community, provision of health services to address community members who already have the diseases, institutionalize lessons learned through policies and structures that will prevent diseases, monitoring the health status of the community and providing mean
• The concept of Community Health according to C.E.A Winslow includes Environmental Sanitation, Control of CD, Education Adults, Personal Hygiene, Medical services, Nursing services, Occupation, Health services, Good Housing condition, Adequate Nutrition and safe water, Maintenance for Good health, and Community Participation.
• In a study by MacQueen et.Al(2001), a community has five core elements: Locus, Sharing, Joint Action, Social Ties, and Diversity.
• Locus in a community refers to something which can be located or described, thus implying a sense of place, locale or geographical boundaries.
• Sharing in a community is referred to as sharing an existence of “shared experience” and “common interest” that would contribute to a sense of community.
• Joint Action in a community is seen as emerging from joint actions of people through socializing, hanging out, conversing, volunteering together, praying together, working together and getting things done together.