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Overview
Questions to be addressed:
What is public health?
What is a public health system?
Why take a public health approach?
Can public health make a difference?
What is Public Health?
Definitions vary
Key terms
Population health
Prevention
What is Public Health?
C.E.A. Winslow in 1923 defined Public Health as the science
and art of preventing disease, prolonging 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 individual in
principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and
nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive
treatment and the development of the social machinery which
will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of
living adequate for the maintenance of health.
What is Public Health?
The Acheson Report (1988) defines
Public health more succinctly as:
~Mission~
Promote physical and mental health
and
Prevent disease, injury, disability
Public Health
Prevents epidemics and the spread
of disease
Prevents injuries
What?
A network
The Public Health System
Police
Home Health
EMS Community Churches Corrections
Centers MCOs
Health
Department
Parks
Schools
Elected
Doctors Hospitals Officials Nursing Mass Transit
Philanthropist Homes
Environmental
Civic Groups Health
CHCs Fire
Tribal Health
Economic
Laboratory Drug Mental Employers
Development
Facilities Treatment Health
Workforce
Diverse and Multidisciplinary
Examples
Biostatisticians
Dieticians
ASSURANCE
of the publics
health
10 Essential Services
1. Monitor health status
to identify community
health problems
Approach Intervention
Evaluation:
What
works?
Risk Factor
Identification:
What is the
cause?
Surveillance:
What
is the
problem?
Problem Response
Public Health Approach
Requires the collection, analysis, and
interpretation of data to define the
problem and outline:
What
Where
When
Who
How
Public Health Approach
Do it
Public Health Approach
After implementation the cycle begins
again, but this time to evaluate the
program results.
Did the strategy work as intended?
Were the results as expected?
If yes, can you expand or replicate the
program?
If no, do you abandon or revise and try
again?
Public Health Approach
Quiz:
What was the leading cause of
death in Arizona children 0-4
years of age from 1986-1996?
Public Health Approach
Answer:
Drowning
Drowning in Arizona
Drowning in Arizona