HLTH-2020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Improved Sanitation, Germ Theory Of Disease, Health Promotion
Study Guide: Chapter 1 from Text
HLTH 2020, Fall 2017
1.Features and Functions of Public Health (Be able to identify and describe the different elements)
Features:
A. Social Justice
B. Utilitarian
C. Focus on Prevention
D. Scientific Basis
E. Ecological Framework
F. Inherently Political
Functions:
A. Assessment
B. Policy Development
C. Assurance
II. Eras of Public Health (Table 1-1) --- Also Incorporate Material Provided in Notes on History ---
Know diseases, accomplishments or contributions of pioneers, for different periods
1. Health Protection- An authority based control of behaviors by religious and cultural
practices. (Beginning of humanity to 1830s)
2. Hygiene Movement- Improved sanitation helps health through community wide action.
(1840s- 1870s)
3. Contagion Control- The germ theory is created. Communicable diseases are fought with
vaccines, sanitation control and outbreak investigation. (1880s- 1940s)
4. Filling Holes in Medical care system- We mostly just added onto the contagion control era.
(1950s-1980s)
5. Health Promotion/ Disease Prevention- Focused on individual disease and at risk population
prevention. (1980s-2000)
