Public health Classifications project

Question 1

Provide an overview of the NSW pub health classifications project.

Answer 1

To develop and endorse a higher level classification that captures the breadth and scope of public health activity and provides a unified framework for multiple uses.

Question 2

Explain the key assumptions surrounding the Determinants of health.

Answer 2

1. There are doh that include social, economic, psychological and physiological factors
2. Determinants (a) impact on individuals to produce individual level pathology and (b) produce highly patterned health differences in populations, reflecting societal inequalities.
3. Determinants work through discernible causal pathways; causal pathways help identify ways of preventing and ameliorating disease; there are also causal pathways for the promotion of health
4. Positive and negative causal pathways cross physical, biological, social, economic, political and psychological discipline boundaries.