APPH 1040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: René Dubos, Cerebrovascular Disease, Health Equity
16 Apr 2017
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Health is not inherited, it is a process. Lo1: why health, why now: unintentional injury is leading cause of death for ages 15-44, top 10 impediments to academic success. Video games: leading causes of death. Accidents: healthy choices are like a seed planted that yields long term health benefits, average life expectancy (2011) is 78. 7 years. Leading cause of death for kids under 5 was infectious diseases: as vaccines and antibiotics came into play, life expectancy increased. Lo2: what is health: health: ever changing process of achieving individual potential in the physical, social, emotional, mental, spiritual and environmental dimensions, medical model of health: focused on the individual"s tissues and organs. Methods to improve health: medication to treat or surgery to remove. Government methods focused on treatment rather than prevention: ecological or public health model: viewed diseases and other negative health events as a result of a person"s interactions with their social and physical environment.
