Identify The Problem Develop & Test Community Level Intervention
1. What is Public Health?
- Public health is the science of avoiding disease, extending life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individuals in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the elderly diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease and the development of social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.
2. The scope of public health
- Chronic disease, infectious diseases, mental health, nutritional, health of vulnerable individuals, environmental health, substance …show more content…
Medicine focuses on healing patients who are ill. Public health focuses on preventing illness.
5. Sciences of public health?
- Epidemiology, statistics, biomedical sciences, environmental health science, social & behavioral sciences, health policy & management
6. Prevention & intervention?
- Define the health problem, identify the risk factors associated with the problem, develop & test community level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the problem, implement interventions to improve the health of the population, and monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness.
7. What is the relationship between politics & public health?
- Public health is like a broad social movement. It has its roots in economic, libertarian, and moral issues which tend to come up repeatedly in debates over public health actions and activities.
8. What are the 20th century’s top 10 achievements in public health?
- Vaccination, motor vehicle, safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke, safer and healthier foods, healthier mothers and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, and recognition of tobacco as a health
- Public health is the science of avoiding disease, extending life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individuals in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the elderly diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease and the development of social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.
2. The scope of public health
- Chronic disease, infectious diseases, mental health, nutritional, health of vulnerable individuals, environmental health, substance …show more content…
Medicine focuses on healing patients who are ill. Public health focuses on preventing illness.
5. Sciences of public health?
- Epidemiology, statistics, biomedical sciences, environmental health science, social & behavioral sciences, health policy & management
6. Prevention & intervention?
- Define the health problem, identify the risk factors associated with the problem, develop & test community level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the problem, implement interventions to improve the health of the population, and monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness.
7. What is the relationship between politics & public health?
- Public health is like a broad social movement. It has its roots in economic, libertarian, and moral issues which tend to come up repeatedly in debates over public health actions and activities.
8. What are the 20th century’s top 10 achievements in public health?
- Vaccination, motor vehicle, safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke, safer and healthier foods, healthier mothers and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, and recognition of tobacco as a health