Transcription of CHAPTER OUTLINE Basic Concepts in Public Health
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35 CHAPTER2 Basic Concepts in Public Health Marion Willard Evans Jr., DC, PhD, CHESDEFINITIONS IN Public HEALTHP ublic Health , as defined by C. E. A. Winslow, a leading figure in the history of Public Health , is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life,and promoting Health and efficiency through organizedcommunity efforts for the sanitation of the environ-ment, the control of community infections, the educa-tion of the individual in personal Health , the organizationof medical and nursing services for the early diagnosisand preventive treatment of disease, and the develop-ment of the social machinery which will ensure toevery individual in the community a standard of livingadequate for the maintenance or improvement was not a bad definition for 1920. Today theAmerican Public Health Association (APHA) states thatpublic Health is the practice of preventing disease andCHAPTER OUTLINED efinitions in Public HealthTerms Used in Public HealthReportingCausation and Sir Austin BradfordHill s Criteria Assessment of Risk and Occurrenceof DiseaseRates Reported in Public HealthMeasuring for Causation and Risk AssessmentRisk DifferenceRisk RatioPreventionThe Mission of Healthy People in the Prevention of DiseaseScreening Counseling Pa
CHAPTER OUTLINE Definitions in Public Health Terms Used in Public Health Reporting Causation and Sir Austin Bradford Hill’s Criteria Assessment of Risk and Occurrence of Disease Rates Reported in Public Health Measuring for Causation and Risk Assessment Risk Difference Risk Ratio Prevention The Mission of Healthy People in the Prevention of ...
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