What is Public Health Flashcards
1
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What does health promotion do
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- To provide people with the opportunity for better health
- To educate people on potential harms to their health
- To organise ways for people to eat well, be more active, stop smoking cigarettes
2
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Define health promotion
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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health
3
Q
What is the aim of health protection
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- Protect the public from hazards, keep water running and restaurants open
- Run the public health response to emergencies
- Prevent and control infectious diseases
4
Q
What things matter to peoples health
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- money
- housing
- food
- family and friends
- community
- skills and jobs
5
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What does public health focus on
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- the determinants of this persons health
- prevention strategies
- how to deliver health services to meet the needs of different populations
- inequalties in health outcomes
- infectious and non-communicable disease epidemiology; extent, causes and impacts of diseases
