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Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of populations—from neighborhoods to cities to countries to world regions—through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, research toward prevention ...
Nov 29, 2021 · The basics of public health during infectious disease outbreaks aim to identify the pathogen and those exposed to it, monitor spread in the community, break chains of transmission, and communicate risk to the public.1 Public health activities, particularly those embedded within routine health service delivery, are crucial to identifying signals, such as unusual disease, that indicate an ...
- Victoria Haldane, Anne-Sophie Jung, Chuan De Foo, Mathias Bonk, Margaret Jamieson, Shishi Wu, Monica...
- 2021
determinant: factor that contributes to the generation of a trait. epidemic or outbreak: occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event clearly in excess of normal expectancy. Both terms are used interchangeably; however, epidemic usually refers to a larger geographic ...
4 days ago · public health, the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health, sanitation, personal hygiene, control of infectious diseases, and organization of health services. From the normal human interactions involved in dealing with the many problems of social life, there has emerged a recognition of ...
Jul 28, 2009 · Environmental factors include physical factors (e.g. climate), biological factors (e.g. insects that transmit the infectious agent), as well as social factors such as sanitary conditions and quality of health-care services. Definition: Infectious disease. An infectious disease is defined as a disease caused by an infectious agent or its toxic ...
- 10.1007/978-0-387-93835-6_5
- 2010
Jan 29, 2021 · The treatment of infectious diseases has a pivotal effect on the life quality of infected individuals, reducing unwanted impacts of the disease on social and economic aspects, along with the avoidance of possible co-infection-related complications for the patient, such as for those co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C virus (Da Silva et al ...
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Public health aims are achieved through surveillance of cases and the promotion of healthy behaviors, communities and environments. Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. [3] Many diseases are preventable through simple, nonmedical methods.
