Early Concepts of Disease
Explore the early concepts of disease from hunter-gatherers to the Bubonic Plague, and the shift to agricultural living.
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What were James Lind's contributions to understanding and preventing scurvy?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">He suspected that citrus fruits could prevent scurvy and based this on anecdotal observations.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Who is known as the Father of Microbiology?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Anton Van Leeuwenhoek</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Found in undercooked pork </h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Taenia cyst</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Bubonic plague is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium called</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Yersinia pestis.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Who made the number of observations regarding common causes of death</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">John Graunt</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He was the first person to see bacteria (1674), yeast, protozoa, sperm cells, and red blood cells.</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Anton Van Leeuwenhoek</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He was a Scot who served as physician general to the British forces during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48).</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">John Pringle and “Jail Fever”</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is Typhus or typhus fever</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash.Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;"> Diagnose, investigate, and monitor health problems and
health hazards of the community</h2>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Dark, tender, swollen nodule </h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Buboes</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">A field of public health which concerns
itself with the study and improvement of the health characteristics of biological communities</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">COMMUNITY HEALTH</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What significant change did the Agricultural Revolution bring about in human societies?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">A more secure supply of food and population expansions.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What were some common beliefs about the cause of the plague before its actual transmission method was known?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Miasmas, person-to-person contact, sun exposure, or intentional poisoning.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">They belived that natural spirits are sometimes
mischievous or vengeful.</h2>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What was the primary challenge for hunter-gatherers ten thousand years ago?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Finding enough food to eat.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What was the early attempt to rationalize diseases in the Hippocratic Corpus?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">As an imbalance of man with the environment, not as punishment from the gods.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How was the Bubonic Plague transmitted to humans?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">By infected fleas jumping from rats to humans.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">How did the Industrial Revolution affect public health in Europe and America?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">It brought new health problems due to poor living conditions, working hazards, and environmental pollution.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Define 'community health' in the context of public health.</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">The study and improvement of the health characteristics of biological communities, focusing on geographical areas.</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He proposed a number of measures aimed at improving the health of soldiers including improvements in hospital ventilation and camp sanitation, proper drainage, adequate latrines, and the avoidance of marshes. </h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">John Pringle</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He published “Micrographia” in 1665</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;"> Hobert Hoeke</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Made a number of observations regarding common causes of death, higher death rates in men, seasonal variation in death rates, and the fact that some diseases have relatively constant death rates, while others varied considerably.
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<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">John Graunt - The Bill of Mortality</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Typhus due to Orientia tsutsugamushi spread by chiggers</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Scrub typhus</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Typhus due to Rickettsia typhi spread by fleas</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Murine typhus</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">It is a disease due to the deficiency in Vitamin C that results in weak connective tissue and abnormally fragile capillaries that rupture easily, causing bleeding, anemia, edema, jaundice, heart failure and death</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Scurvy</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">The Father of Epidemiology</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">John Snow</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He was a contemporary of Broussais’s who believed in using numerical methods to evaluate treatment.</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Pierre Louis</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">A physician in London who spent several decades studying cholera in a systematic way. He is most often credited with solving an outbreak of cholera that occurred in London in 1854.</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">John Snow</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He is a social reformer, published a report entitled the “Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain”</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Sir Edwin Chadwick</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He was a French biologist and chemist who made enormous contributions to Germ Theory, to prevent of food spoilage, and to the control of disease</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Louis Pasteur </p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He was instrumental in creating a central public health
administration that paved the way for drainage, sewers,
garbage disposal, regulation of housing, and regulations
regarding nuisances and offensive trades. </h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;"> Sir Edwin Chadwick</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">resulted in remarkable improvements in health and well-being</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Sanitary idea</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">He concluded that in the fermentation in wine and beer microorganisms were responsible </h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Louis Pasteur</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Charles Edward A. Winslow</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">MAHABA DI KO NA NILAGAY</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">What is the difference of isolation and quarantine?</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">ISOLATION - for people who are SICK ; QUARANTINE - for people who are NOT SICK but have been EXPOSED</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">The science and art of preventing health and
efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease.</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">PUBLIC HEALTH </p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">A restriction on the movement of people and
goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness.</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">QUARANTINE</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">A complete separation from others of a person
suffering from contagious or infectious disease</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">ISOLATION</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Covers a series of activities at the community level aimed at bringing about desired improvement in the social well-being of individuals, groups and neighborhoods</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Refers to the improvements made in a patient’s
lifestyle or environment after the onset of disease or disability</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Secondary healthcare and secondary prevention</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Document the impact of an intervention, or track progress towards specified goals</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Public Health Surveillance Programs</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Provided by health professionals, specifically
the ones a patient sees first that may refer them to secondary or tertiary care</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Primary healthcare</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;"> Diagnose, investigate, and monitor health problems and
health hazards of the community</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Public Health Surveillance Programs</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">In this type of healthcare, community health can only be affected with professional medical care involving the entire population</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Tertiary healthcare</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Monitor and clarify the epidemiology of health problems,allow priorities to be set, , and inform health policy and strategies</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Public Health Surveillance Programs</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Serve as an early warning system for impending public health emergencies</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Public Health Surveillance Programs</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">In this healthcare, the patient need to be referred to specialists and undergo advanced medical treatment</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Tertiary healthcare</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">It is being often used synonymous to community work,
community development and community mobilization. It can represent both community-based organizations, operating as civil society non-profits, and also as a function of organizing within communities defined by geographical location, shared work space, and/or shared experience or concerns</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION</p>
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<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 1.5rem;">Typhus due to Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice,</h2>
<p style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.2rem;">Epidemic typhus</p>
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