malimu intro to community health
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Chap 1: Community Health - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Malimu
Chap 1: Community Health
• Accurately define the terms health, community health, population health, and public health.
• Explain the difference between personal and community health activities
• List and discuss the factors that influence a community’s health
Chapter Objectives
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Chapter Objectives• Briefly relate the history of
community/public health, including the recent history of community and public health in the twentieth-century .
• Describe the status of efforts to improve world health and list some plans for the future.
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Chapter Objectives• Describe the purpose of the Health
People 2010 goals and objectives as they apply to the planning process of the health of Tanzanians.
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Introduction
• Definitions, Concepts, & Principles• Community Health vs. Personal
Health• Brief History of Community Health• American Health Concerns in the
90’s
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HEALTH• A state of complete physical, mental,
and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” World Health Organization - 1947
• A dynamic state or condition which is multidimensional in nature and results from the adaptation to his/her environment.
Definitions
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Definitions• COMMUNITY
Group of people who have common characteristics
• COMMUNITY HEALTH– the health status of a defined group of
people and the actions and conditions, both private and public, to promote, protect, and preserve their health.
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• Population Health– The health status of people who are
not organized and have no identity as a group or locality and the actions and conditions to promote, protect and preserve their health
• Public Health– Health status of a defined group of
people and governmental actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve the people’s health
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Community Health vs. Personal Health
• PERSONAL– Individual actions and decision making that
affect the health of an individual or their immediate family
– COMMUNITY– Activities aimed at protecting or improving
the health of a population or community
Chap 1: Community HealthFactors Affecting Community Factors Affecting Community
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PHYSICAL FACTORSIndustrial development
Community sizeEnvironmentGeography
SOCIAL/CULTURAL FACTORS
Beliefs, Traditions, and Prejudices
Economy, Politics, Religion Socioeconomic Status
Social Norms
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
Ways in which communities
organize their resources;Tax vs Non-tax supported services
INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORS
Takes the concerted effort of many - if not most - to make a community
voluntary program work
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Prehistory7000+ BC
Egyptians1500 -1050 BC
Greeks400 BC
Romans450 BC - 410 AD
Middle Ages410 - 1500AD
Renaissance1500 - 1700
Hammurabi1750 BC
Enlightenment1700s
19th Century
20th Century
21st Century
Chap 1: Community HealthBrief History and Public Health• EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS• ANCIENT SOCIETIES - before 500 B.C.
– Northern India: evidence of bathrooms and sewers– Sumarian clay tablet: evidence of prescription
drugs– Code of Hammurabi: laws pertaining to physicians
and health practices• CLASSICAL CULTURES - 500 B.C. - 500 A.D.
– Greeks: Games of strength and skill for men– Greeks: Active in community sanitation– Romans: Built aqueducts and sewer systems– Romans: Built hospitals and infirmaries for slaves
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Brief History and Public Health• MIDDLE AGES - 500 to 1500 A.D.
– Spiritual era of public health– Great epidemics of plague
• RENAISSANCE AND EXPLORATION - 1500 to 1700 A.D. – Rebirth of thinking about nature of the world
and of humankind– Belief that diseases were caused by
environmental, not spiritual factors
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Brief History and Public Health• EIGHTEENTH CENTURY • INDUSTRIAL GROWTH• Cities overcrowded
– Water supplies inadequate – Streets heaped with trash and garbage
• Occupational health – Workplaces unsafe and unhealthy– Workforce poor– Children forced to work long hours
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Brief History and Public Health• NINETEENTH CENTURY • EARLY APPROACH
– Few advancements in public health– Federal government approach “Laissez faire”– Health quackery thrived
• EPIDEMICS CONTINUED – London cholera epidemic struck in 1849– Miasmas theory of contagious disease– Dr. John Snow and the Broad Street pump
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Brief History and Public Health• LEMUEL SHATTUCK’S HEALTH
REPORT, 1850
• FIVE PERIODS OF ERA – Miasma, 1850 to 1875– Bacteriological, 1875 to 1900– Health Resources Development, 1900 to 1960– Social Engineering, 1960 to 1975– Health Promotion, 1975 to present
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Health Resources• BEGINNING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY
– Life expectancy less than 50 years– Communicable diseases leading causes of
death– Children health concerns
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Health Resources (1900-1960)• REFORM PHASE - 1900 to 1920• GREAT DEPRESSION & WORLD WAR
II 1929 - 1935– Social Security Act of 1935– National Institutes of Health established -
1930’s• THE POSTWAR YEARS 1945 - 1960
– Communicable Disease Center established - 1946
– World Health Organization founded - 1948
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Health Resources (1900-1960)• SOCIAL ENGINEERING 1960 - 1973
– Congress passed Medicare and Medicaid bills - 1965
– OSHA Act Signed 1970• Health Promotion Period (1975 -
1990)– Lifestyle related diseases– High medical care costs
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HEALTH PROMOTION• LIFESTYLE CHANGES
– World Health Organization’s “Health for All”, 1977
– Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation, 1979• 226 Objectives based on preventive services, health
protection, and health promotion – Healthy People 2000
• Over 300 objectives – Healthy People 2010
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Community Health in the 21st Century • World Planning
– reduce the burden of excess mortality and morbidity
– developing effective health systems– expanding the knowledge base
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