HLTH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Infant Mortality, Collective Behavior, Health Equity
22 Nov 2017
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Ide(cid:374)tifies opportu(cid:374)ities to i(cid:373)prove a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a"s health: scorecard for monitoring health status, u. (cid:272)o(cid:374)tri(cid:271)utio(cid:374) to whos (cid:862)health for all(cid:863) strategy, healthy people, 1980-1990, reduce infant mortality, optimal child development. Increase quality of health for older adults: 1990-2000. Increase span of healthy life: reducing health disparities, 2000-2010. Lecture 3: environmental health sciences- focuses on the natural and build environments that encompass health, social and behavioral sciences- focuses on factors that shape and reinforce individual and collective behavior. Substance of public health: all the organized community efforts aimed at preventing disease and promoting health, a cadre of public health professionals mobilized to engage in prevention activities. Justice dictates fairness toward the distribution of benefits and burdens. Injustice: health itself and the conditions that promote health and are societal benefits. Health equity: when everyone can attain their full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other social determined circumstances.
