Public Health And Introduction To Wellness/ Influecning Health Behavior Change Flashcards
What is Public Health and its role?
- The science and art of preventing disease
- Prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts
- Promotes the health of people
- Promotes wellness and encourages healthy behaviors
What is one of the main concerns of the public health system?
-They are concerned with protecting the health of the entire population
How does the Public Health System prevent problems from happening?
They will
- Implement educational programs - Recommend policies - Administer services - Conduct research
What is the main focus of public health professionals?
- They will try to prevent problems from happening or reoccurring
- They will try to prevent people from getting sick or injured in the first place
What is the main focus of Clinical Professionals, in a public health system?
-Treating people who are sick
Primary focus is on treating individuals after they become sick or injured
What are they different types of healthcare models?
Traditional model - Disease and drug oriented Traditional Preventative Medicine - Early Detection of Disease - Ex: Lab test, mammograms, Pap smears True preventative Medicine - Equipping body to fight off diseases -EX: Exercise, diet, vaccines
Describe Public Health Surveillance
- Ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data
- Provision of information may lead to action being taken to prevent and control a disease
- Usually infectious in nature
What are some Data Sources for Public Health Surveillance?
Reported Diseases of syndromes Electronic health records Vital records Registries Surveys
List and Explain the different types of Public Health Surveillance
Passive
- Diseases are reported by health care providers
- Simple and inexpensive
- Limited by incompleteness of reporting and variability of quality
Active
- Health agencies contact health providers seeking reports
- Ensures more complete reporting of conditions
- Used in conjunctions with specific epidemiological investigation
What are notifiable Disease Surveillance?
- disease or condition which regular, frequent, and timely information regarding individual cases considered necessary for prevention and control of the disease or condition
- Covid
What is the Nationally notifiable Disease Surveillance system (NDSS)
Collaboration between CDC and the Council of Sate and Territorial epidemiologists
- Reporting by the state is voluntary
- Each state determines which diseases are reportable in their jurisdication
- Then the list of notifiable disease can be found on the CDC
What information gets put into the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report?
List of diseases that the state chooses to send to the CDC
what are the components of State-Based Notifiable Disease Surveillance Systems?
MANDATED by state law or regulation
Health care providers are required to report cases to the local health department (LHD)
LHD is responsible for further action
How are reportable diseases divided up?
Mandatory written reporting - Report must be made in writing - Gonorrhea and salmonellosis Mandatory reporting by telephone - Provider must report by phone - EX: Rubella, pertussis
How are cancer cases reported?
They are reported to the state cancer registry