HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cestoda, Physical Fitness, Biological Warfare
28 Feb 2019
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Public health - promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability. (cdc) Risk factor identification - identifying the cause (ie. how it spreads) Intervention evaluation - what works to solve the problem. 500 bce - greeks & romans practiced community sanitation measures. 1840s - the public health act of 1848 was established in the uk (assumed it was bad air spreading diseases). air spreading diseases). Influenza - 500 mil infected worldwide in 1918. Polio - vaccine introduced 1955; eradication initiative launched in 1988. Hiv - 34 mil living with it worldwide; 20% decline since 2011. Biological warfare - plague used as a weapon in war (siege of kaffa). 9/11 - public health surveillance conducted after attacks. Hurricane katrina - emergency services, public health surveillance & disease treatment provided. Book of leviticus - first written health code (lower risk of tapeworms by reducing pork).
