HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Public Health, Flu Season, Food Safety
16 Jan 2018
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Goals: the population health approach, the difference between population and individual health. Public health: main goal: to prevent disease and promote health, recognize the importance of individual contributions, understanding how to reduce alleviate risks by addressing underlying causes. Improve the health of the entire population: reduce health inequalities among population groups. Check graphs in lecture slide for male diabetes, female premature mortality and male colorectal cancer incidence. Two key consideration in public health approach: exposure to small risks in large populations will produce more adverse health outcomes than exposure to large risks in a smaller number of people. Individuals risks of illness cannot be considered in isolation from the risk for the population (child is more likely to die by the age of 5 in india than a child by the age of 5 in canada) Someone in ontario is more likely to get lyme disease than someone in bc because the distribution of lyme disease.
