public health in practice

Question 1

4 main areas of public health focus

Answer 1

1. Health improvement
2. Health protection
3. Health care quality and improvement. “advice to commissioners”
4. Applied epi – or health intelligence

Question 2

The problem ‘health’ = ‘NHS’

Answer 2

• ‘Care’ c20% contributor to ‘health’
• The totality of the City’s activities may have a material impact on health
• Some immediate, some downstream
• Some direct, some indirect.

Question 3

how deprivation worsens health

Answer 3

• Increased pollution
• Poor living conditions
• Lack of education
• Inadequate food & nutrition
• Abuse
• Not much access to green areas ect.

Question 4

How far upstream do you want to go Causes of causes – in scope?

Answer 4

• Individualisation of social issues
• Dominance of market mechanism
• Misplaced belief in trickledown economics
• Privatisation of profit, socialisation of risk
• Concentration of wealth
• Neo liberalism