History and Principles of Determinants Reflection
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Running head: HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF DETERMINANTS REFLECTION 1
History and Principles of Determinants Reflection
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History and Principles of Determinants Reflection
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF DETERMINANTS REFLECTION 2
History and Principles of Determinants Reflection
The history of public health is significant and essential in understanding the role of
different health components and their outcomes. As a general field, it is derived from many
traditional ideas, experiments, growth of basic sciences epidemiology and even advancement in
technology. It is from the history that we are at the current state of health advancement. This
paper aims at reflecting on the extent to which unit content relates to the existing knowledge and
skills, and how the unit content will support future work in the field of public health, particularly
in meeting competency standards.
Consideration of unit content relative to existing knowledge and skills
It is surprising to note that most of the science we rely on today is dependent on what
happened a long time ago. In other words, the level at which we are today in terms of
administration, dissemination, and application of health is greatly influenced by what the
scientists of the past did or researched on. The 1796 discovery by Jenner that cowpox
vaccination was the appropriate solution to preventing smallpox has a present-day application
(Tulchinsky & Varavikova, 2014). This is because the practices and the information related to
science and use of nutrition together with immunization have a huge role to play in the modern-
day health sector. Among the populations of both developed and developing countries, the
concept of the early 1790s primarily impacts the lives of many people today. People are safe
from certain diseases or illnesses because they have undergone an immune making process that
was long ago discovered by the person we do not even know and ever seen him. It makes
sometimes think that may be in the present we are not doing much, we are sleeping too much, we
are too much into our comfort zones. I am surprised that in the past, with such low levels of
technology and advancement in literacy, an individual could discover that a particular disease
History and Principles of Determinants Reflection
The history of public health is significant and essential in understanding the role of
different health components and their outcomes. As a general field, it is derived from many
traditional ideas, experiments, growth of basic sciences epidemiology and even advancement in
technology. It is from the history that we are at the current state of health advancement. This
paper aims at reflecting on the extent to which unit content relates to the existing knowledge and
skills, and how the unit content will support future work in the field of public health, particularly
in meeting competency standards.
Consideration of unit content relative to existing knowledge and skills
It is surprising to note that most of the science we rely on today is dependent on what
happened a long time ago. In other words, the level at which we are today in terms of
administration, dissemination, and application of health is greatly influenced by what the
scientists of the past did or researched on. The 1796 discovery by Jenner that cowpox
vaccination was the appropriate solution to preventing smallpox has a present-day application
(Tulchinsky & Varavikova, 2014). This is because the practices and the information related to
science and use of nutrition together with immunization have a huge role to play in the modern-
day health sector. Among the populations of both developed and developing countries, the
concept of the early 1790s primarily impacts the lives of many people today. People are safe
from certain diseases or illnesses because they have undergone an immune making process that
was long ago discovered by the person we do not even know and ever seen him. It makes
sometimes think that may be in the present we are not doing much, we are sleeping too much, we
are too much into our comfort zones. I am surprised that in the past, with such low levels of
technology and advancement in literacy, an individual could discover that a particular disease
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