HST330H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Government Operations, Health Geography, Urban Design
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Public health: actions that society takes collectively to ensure people stay healthy. Community health: health status of a particular population. Population health: health outcomes of a group of individuals including distribution of outcomes. Global health: health problems, issues, and concerns that go beyond a nation. Geography: one"s altitude and climate can expose people to infectious diseases. Environment: consists of transportation, urban design features, parks/facilities. Industrial development: maybe valuable as it allows people to have more access to resources; maybe terrible as it constitutes to pollution. Community size: influences the number of resources available in a given space. Religion: influences what they can and cannot do eat. Definition: process by which community groups are helped to identify common problems or discuss policy change. Modern era of public health started in 1854 with dr. john snow"s germ theory. Bacteriological period of public health: the period of 1875-1900 in which causes of many bacteria diseases were discovered.
