Lecture 2: Public Health & Practice Flashcards
What is public health?
Public health is defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society” (Acheson, 1988; WHO).
What is the basis for public health?
Analyzing thehealthof a population and the threats is the basis for public health.
Activities to strengthen public health capacities and service aim to…
- provide conditions under which people can maintain to be healthy,
- improve their health and wellbeing,
- or prevent the deterioration of their health.
What does public health focus on?
Public health focuses on the entire spectrum of health and wellbeing, not only the eradication of particular diseases
What do public health services include?
Public health services also include the provision of personal services to individual persons, such as vaccinations, behavioral counselling, or health advice.
This is public health campaign
Campaign created by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) to brand public health and raise awareness of how public health affects individuals, families, communities, and populations.
What does public health aim to?
- Create conditions that create opportunities to be healthy (behaviors), policies, programs, law.
- Create conditions that prevent disease.
- Create Science and new knowledge to inform public health actions.
- Evaluate impacts of policies and programs.
- Engage communities.
- The action may be vast but the common approach is a society effort – to address the health of the collective public.
What are the 12 great achievements
- Safer and healthier foods
- Control of infectious diseases
- Healthier environments
- Vaccination
- Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
- Motor vehicle safety
- Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke
- Healthier mothers and babies
- Safer workplaces
- Universal policies
- Acting on the social determinants of health
- Family planning
“The Public Health Agency of Canada empowers Canadians to improve their health. In partnership with others, its activities focus on…
- preventing disease and injuries,
- promoting good physical and mental health
- providing information to support informed decision making.
- values scientific excellence
- provides national leadership in response to public health threats.
Explain what Le Programme national de santé publique (PNSP) does.
- Defines public health services offered by the Department of Health and Social Services and its network.
- It structures public health action to maintain and improve the health of the population through quality services, which are adapted to the specific needs and realities of all the territories of Quebec.
- Services target people and their living environments, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable groups, thereby helping to reduce social inequalities in health
What are the core functions of public health?
- Health Assessment – assessing factors that influence health
- Health Surveillance – data systems
- Health Promotion
- Injury and disease prevention
- Health Protection
Why is health assessment important in public health?
to identify what influences (risks and contributing factors) health on a population. It then works to develop priorities and improve for polices programs and services for the public.
Why is health surveillance important in public health?
using multiple sources and data systems at local provincial and national levels, It gathers, analyses and interprets information on the health of the population.
What is health promotion?
Empowering communities to take control of over the determinants of their health.
There are 5 HP actions;
- Strengthening community action,
- creating supportive environments,
- developing personal skills,
- building healthy public policy,
- reorienting health services
What are the 5 health promotion actions?
- Strengthening community action,
- creating supportive environments,
- developing personal skills,
- building healthy public policy,
- reorienting health services
