Question: There are both biological and geneticfactors and can affect a population’s health. One of the leadingcauses of morbidity and mortality in the United States iscardiovascular disease. Cancer consists of a sweet of diseases andcan be caused from a multitude of biologic and genetic factors.Please note, the following prompts are asking about biological andgenetic factors, not behavioral factors.
- Think about how public health is aimed at thepopulation, not the individual. A. Explain howthese biological and genetic factors influence health at apopulation (e.g., remember in week 1 and chapter 1 we defined howpublic health and medicine differ in that public health is thinkingabout population’s and not treating one individual at a time)level, rather than the individual risk factors. B. Describe threeways the public health approach to preventing cardiovasculardisease differs than the medical approach. Hint – thinkabout how the text revisited the terms primary, secondary, tertiaryprevention in chapter 11 and we talked about the public healthfield’s role in thinking this way in lecture.
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