history of community and public health

• diety - also called supernatural being and people believed in this
• ill people - believed that they were punished by supernatural being
• shamans - also called medicine man and became natural healers
• geophagy - ingestion of clay or earth
• trepanation - process of drilling a hole into a human skull
• trepanation - done to release evil spirit, headaches, and migraine
• trepanation - leave the hole open
• healed - smooth
• not healed - rough
• hippocrates - father of medicine and contributed largely to the professionalization of medicine
• de aere aquis et locis - book written by hippocrates (of air, water, and land)
• the constitution of man - de aere aquis et locis
• de aere aquis et locis - states that disease develop because of our environmental and not because of some form of divine act
• romans - it was them who were the closest rivals during egyptian period
• greek physicians - they paved the way for modern medicine
• black plague - the most notorious epidemic
• bubonic plague - black plague
• bubonic plague - decimated one third of europe's population over span of 5 years
• yersinia pestis - cause of bubonic plague
• 4 humors

  phlegm

  blood

  yellow bile

  black bile
• bubonic plague - outbreak in china and was brought to europe
• board of health for the philippines islands - established by american colonizers and eventually became department of health
• dr. jose fabella - first secretary
• 1948 - world health organization was established
• center for disease control and prevention (CDC) - established in Atlanta, USA
• 1978 - declaration of alma-ata on primary health care
• declaration of alma-ata on primary health care - states that health is a human right and it pushed for health for all by year 2000
• 1982 - united nations international children's emergency fund (UNICEF) - came up with GOBI strategy
• GOBI

  growth monitoring, oral rehydration therapy, breastfeeding and immunization
• AIDS - caused by HIV
• community health provides

  space

  means and facilities

  opportunity

  socialization and education
• community health - subset of public health
• charles-edward amory winslow (1920) - father of public health
• five core elements of community

  locus

  sharing

  joint action

  social ties

  diversity
• locus - location or description (neighborhood, village, city, or country)
• sharing - shared perspective and common interest
• joint action - source of community cohesion and identity (socializing, hanging out, conversing, etc)
• social ties - interpersonal relationships (family, parents, cousins, siblings, etc.)
• diversity - communities within a community. variations in interactions among members of the community
• levels of health care

  primary

  secondary

  tertiary