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Public Health Exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| public health | science of extending life and promoting health at the population level |
| population health | study of how society is affected by health issues within groups sharing traits |
| John Snow (1854) | father of modern epidemiology who identified water as the source of a London cholera outbreak |
| evidence-based approach | reliance on qualitative and quantitative data to inform health interventions |
| vulnerable groups | sub-populations requiring focused public health attention like mothers/children, the disabled, the elderly, the uninsured, etc. |
| high-risk approach | intervention strategy targeting those with higher probability of disease to reduce their risk |
| improving-the-average approach | intervention strategy targeting the population to reduce baseline health risk |
| upstream factors | social, economic, and environmental conditions like policies and income that influence health outcomes |
| contributing causes | immediate biological or behavioral triggers causing disease to develop |
| downstream factors | end-stage health outcomes and reactive interventions needed to treat them like medical care or health education |
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