PUBHLTH 1 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Tobacco Smoking, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Socioeconomic Status
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Health is a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Health represents a dynamic state with habits that promote health and lowering risk of any diseases. Intellectual health: open mind and learn new things. Emotional health: feel and express emotions, self-esteem. Spiritual health: meaning and direction in life. Occupational health: relates to place of employment. Physical health: perform normal activities of daily life. Environmental h: external factors that affect health, water, air, . The fulfillment of society"s interest in assuring the conditions in which ppl can be healthy. Organized community efforts aimed at the prevention of disease and the promotion of health. Medicaine the patient is the individual; in ph the patient in the community. Science is how we understand threats to health, determine what interventions might work and evaluaate whether the interventions worked. Politics is how we as a society. Aims to control spread of infectious diseases.
