Week 1 Dental Public Health Flashcards
What is public health?
Concerned with healthcare of all and focuses on the health of a population rather than treatment of an individual.
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What is the world health organization (WHO)?
Defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
What is the goal of public health?
To protect and promote the health of the public.
* Promote oral health equity
* Reduce Health disparities
* implement evidence based practices
* enhance health literacy
* Foster community-based programs
What are the three essential domains in public health?
Health protection, disease prevention and health promotion.
What are the differences between each essential domains?
Health protection: protecting society from disease, illness and accidents
Disease Prevention: preventing disease frim occuring
Health Promotion: Promoting health with healthy ideas and concepts are encouraged.
How does public health help?
- Improvements within the health of populations: ensuring safe foods, safe water, controlling epidemics, protecting workers from injury, infectious disease outbreaks.
What are the methods of disease prevention?
**Primary prevention **: preventitive methods
Secondary prevention: Restoring
Tertiary prevention: Replacement
What are some of the public health agencies?
- Institute OD medicine
- National Institute of medicine
- American Public Health Association
- National Institiue of Health
Public health goals and services are?
Goals: guide all public health activites by dictate services needed to ensure the promotion of health and prevention disease and injury.
Services: Interventions that help attain public health goals by preventing illness and promoting health through the delievery of efficient and effective public health services.
Other than the overall prevent and protect goals for public health what are the 6 detailed goals?
- Prevent epidemics and spread of disease
- protect against environmental hazards
- prevent injury
- promote and encourage healthy behaviors
- respond to disasters and assist in recovery
- ensure the quality and accessibility of health services.
Monitor health status
Idientify community health problems
enforce laws and regulations that nsure safety
evaluate effectiveness, accessability and quality of personal and population based health services
Are all apart of what aspect of public health?
Public Health Services
What is the goal of the World Health Organization?
- Promoting development: Reducing poverty and promoting economic development.
- Fostering Health Security: Addressing global health threats and preparedness for epidemics, pandemics and other emergencies
- Strengthening Health Systems: Improving health care infastructure, workforce and access to quality care, especially in low -resource settings.
- Harnessing research, information and Evidence
- Enhancing Partnerships: Collaborating with governments NGOs, private sectors and communities
- Improving Performance: Enhancing the effeciency and effectiveness of health systems and organizations, measurable results
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What are the key objectives for dental public health ?
Disease prevention
Health promotion
policy development
What is Dental Public Health ?
A specialty of dentistry that focuses on the prevention of oral diseases and the promotion of oral health through organixed community efforts.
Population level focus
What are the core functions of dental public health?
Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
