CPH

• The term "Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome" is mentioned.
• Pneumocystis is a pneumonia-like infection that affects mostly HIV-positive individuals.
• Stroked gay men have a 60% mortality rate due to Pneumocystis.
• The pre-Spanish era was a time when the life centered around the animate and inanimate world.
• Hospital Real was built in Cebu and was the first hospital in the Philippines, aimed to nurse the Spanish army and navy.
• Hospital de Naturales was founded by Fray Juan Clemente and tended to the sick as well as their spiritual needs.
• Hospital de San Lázaro specializes in treating leprosy and the land belonged to a Chinese mestizo who suffered leprosy.
• The American era saw the foundation of the Bureau of Public Health and the Filipinization of health, prioritizing health education in mothers and young children and prevention is better than cure.
• Theodore Roosevelt Jr, also known as "The Health Messenger", focused on educating the public of health.
• During the Martial Law years, construction of Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center, Kidney Center, and Children’s Hospital, as well as the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) took place.
• The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is recognized as the nation’s premiere health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agencies.
• The environment refers to the external factors that cause or allow the transmission of the disease.
• A host is an organism harboring the disease.
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was discovered by Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute.
• The double blind method ensures that both the patient and the doctor are blind whether or not the patient is taking a placebo.
• Case control studies start with people who are already ill and look back to determine their exposure.
• Protozoa are very small, mostly live in water, and are parasites.
• Bacteria are single-celled organisms that can reproduce by themselves and are larger than viruses.
• An epidemic is an outbreak of a disease that attacks many people at about the same time.
• A pandemic is an epidemic that spreads throughout the world.
• In an experimental group, individuals are exposed to a drug or chemical.
• Fungi cannot produce their own food and live off animals, humans, and plants.
• Viruses have a spiny outside layer and cannot reproduce by itself.
• The time center of the triangle is represented as the incubation period, which is the time between when the host is infected and when disease symptoms occur.
• Cohort studies are epidemiologic studies where the epidemiologist only observes and does not intervene.
• Intervention studies are usually done to test a treatment for disease.
• In a control group, individuals are not given the drug or chemical and are given a placebo.
• A placebo is an inactive substance similar in appearance to the drug or vaccine being tested.
• Cryptosporidium is an intestinal parasite commonly spread through contaminated water.
• Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency.
• There are four divisions of public health: Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance, and Research.
• Advocacy in health promotion is a strategy to raise awareness and interest to impel societal forces that influence public policy and resources to support health.
• Secondary health care is provided at primary health care, community health center, district hospital, etc.
• Support in health promotion is a strategy to foster healthful social norms and alliances and systems that are sensitive and responsive to health needs and concerns of people.
• Tertiary health care is provided at hospitals.
• Empowerment in health promotion is a strategy to help people develop knowledge and skills to make positive health choices and the ability to act individually and collectively to improve health.
• Esteem needs are the need for respect from others, including the need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention.
• High self-esteem needs are the need for self-respect, including the need for strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence, and freedom.
• Community profiling is used to understand the growth trends, ethnicity, income, and mobility needs of a population.
• Safety and security needs are a safety net against accidents and illnesses and their adverse impacts, including personal security, financial security, health and well-being.