Public/Population Health Flashcards
What is the definition of population health?
“an approach aimed at improving the health of an entire population. It addresses ways that resources can be allocated to overcome the problems that drive poor health conditions in the population.”
How is population health different to public health?
Both strive to improve the health of the communities but…
Healthcare- Public health- population health.
Population health is a subset of public health, that focuses on improving the wellbeing and health of communities of a specific group or a community.
How is public health different to population health?
Public health is used primarily to describe the health practices and policies of local and federal governments, public health and compasses are wide range of duties and responsibilities and jobs that all work together to ensure positive health outcomes for the public and a variety of communities.
What are the four aspects A Population Health System
- The wider determinants of health
- Our health behaviours and lifestyle
- An integrated health and care system
- The places and the communities we live in and with.
What does epidemiology mean?
Pin point that first case.
Epidemiology the study of distribution of a disease and the determinants of health related states or events in specified populations.
What does incubation mean?
Incubation is the period of time that it takes for an infection to develop after a person has been exposed.
What does Infectivity mean?
Infectivity is the ability of an infectious agent to cause a new infection in a susceptible host.
What does susceptibility mean?
Susceptibility is how susceptible a person is to be easily affected by a disease.
What does contact tracing mean?
Closely linked with epidemiology.
Contact tracing is a public health process that involves identifying people who may have been exposed to an infected person and collecting additional data to assess the spread of the infection.
What does notifiable diseases mean?
Notifiable diseases- Certain diseases in healthcare that is a legal requirement to notify the medical officer about. Food poisoning, gonorrhea
What does Population Health Nursing involve?
Needs assessment- council finds out what the community needs. Kind of like census in a smaller scale
Activities nurses do on behalf of communities, and families/whānau that live in them.
Focused on entire populations
Considers broad determinants of health
Considers all levels of prevention
Considers all levels of practice
What do public health nurses do?
School based immunisations – HPV and Boostrix programmes
Healthy Homes/Whare Ora assessments
Communicable disease; contact tracing, screening and follow-up of cases, Rheumatic fever management
Assessment and referral to other services, health and social
B4 School Checks
Education in kura and preschools
Wellchild/Tamariki Ora
Health education: head lice, hand washing
Hearing and vision tests
