Community and Public Health

• People believe in the __


  Deity
• Medicine man became natural healers

  Shamans
• Ingestion of clay or earth


  Geophagy
• Trepanation - the process of drilling a hole into the skull
• Why is trepanation done?

  to remove the evil spirits within the person
• Who is the Father of Medicine?

  HIPPOCRATES
• What was the book that he wrote?

  De Aere, Aquis Et Locis
• The English translation of the book

  Of Air, Water, and Land
• What did the book state?

  States that diseases develop because of our environment and not because of some form of divine act.
• Also known as the Bubonic Plague

  The Black Plague
• What is the causative agent of the bubonic plague?

  Yersinia Pestis
• Yersinia pestis is transmitted through __ 


  flea bites
• Board of Health for the Philippines Islands eventually became the __


  Department of Health
• The first secretary of the DOH - Dr. Jose Fabella
• WHO - Established in 1948

  CDC - Established in 1946
• 1978, “Declaration of Alma-Ata on Primary Health Care – States that health is a human right and it pushed for “Health for All” by the year 2000.
• UNICEF - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
• UNICEF came up with the GOBI strategy
• GOBI - Growth monitoring, Oral rehydration therapy, Breastfeeding and Immunization
• The causative agent of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
• ANTI-RETROVIRAL TREATMENT – has shown to reduce the risk and complications due to AIDS.
• COMMUNITY HEALTH- is a social group determined by geographical boundaries and/or common values and interest.
• A subset of public health - community health
• The Father of Public health - Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
• A community has five elements: Locus, Sharing, Joint action, Social ties, diversity
• Primary Care - first point of contact/consultation
• Secondary Care - medical specialists whom a primary care professional has referred to
• Tertiary Care - more specialized form of health care
• ECOLOGY - The scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and the interactions among organisms and between the organisms and their environment
• Physical properties - sum of local abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms
• Biotic factors - other organisms that share its habitat
• abiotic factors: insolation, climate, geology
• The statistical study of all populations

  Demography
• The practice of curtailing population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate.
• POPULATION GROWTH ➢ The increase in a region’s population.
• POPULATION ➢ Collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality or migration.
• • SURVEY ➢ A method of gathering any type of information or data from a sample of individuals.
• CENSUS ➢ it is the counting of data gathered from the entire population.
• BIOTIC POTENTIAL ➢ The maximum reproductive capacity of a population under optimum environmental conditions