Defining Public Health

Question 1

How do we address current events?

Answer 1

1. Define the public health issue. Why is this a PH problem?
2. What are the factors/determinants involved in this problem?
3. What controversial and/or ethical concerns may be involved?

Question 2

What is public health?

Answer 2

The science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases. Public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations

Question 3

What are the P’s of public health?

Answer 3

Prevention
Protection
Promotion
Prolonging
Product safety
Physical, social, economic environments
Populations
(Big) Picture

Question 4

What are the 3 things public health scientists must define?

Answer 4

Health issue
Populations
Determinants of Health

Question 5

What is a health issue?

Answer 5

What’s causing illness and death in the population

Question 6

What are population(s)?

Answer 6

Who are the vulnerable and/or priority groups impacted by health issue

Question 7

What is the definition of the determinants of health?

Answer 7

What are the risk factors and conditions that contribute to the health issue

Question 8

What is the definition of health?

Answer 8

State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Question 9

What falls under the wellness category?

Answer 9

Emotional, environmental, intellectual, physical, occupational, spiritual, social, financial

Question 10

What is mortality?

Answer 10

Rate of death

Question 11

What is morbidity?

Answer 11

Rate of illness

Question 12

What makes some people health and others unhealthy?

Answer 12

Determinants of health

Question 13

What are the 4 determinants of health?

Answer 13

Health care, genetics, social and environmental factors, and individual behavior

Question 14

What are risk factors in determinants of health?

Answer 14

Set of common causes of death, disability, illness, and injury more likely to be under the control of individuals at risk

Question 15

What are risk conditions in determinants of health?

Answer 15

Most distal risk factors: biological, environmental, enforcement of policies and regulations; less likely to be under the control of individuals

Question 16

What are lifestyles in determinants of health?

Answer 16

Pattern of behavior; more complex, lifetime habits and social circumstances