1. Prof. BRENDA B. LANSANG
LECTURER
FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY
Institute of Arts and Sciences

2. At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
1. Define health and wellness;
2. Describe health care;
3. Discuss public health and its components;
4. Trace the history of public health in the
Philippines; and
5. Appreciate the importance of public health
and its application to health care system.

3. • Health
• Wellness
• Public Health
• Prevention
• Promotion
• Health status
• Community Health
• Community Illness

4. • Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis,
treatment, and prevention of disease, illness,
injury, and other physical and mental
impairments in humans.
• Health care is delivered by practitioners in
medicine, dentistry, medical technologists,
nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other
care providers. It refers to the work done in
providing primary care, secondary care and
tertiary care, as well as in public health.

5. Time and health are two precious assets
that we don't recognize and appreciate
until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley

6. Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as
fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as
giving every child a chance to get a public education.
Rod Blagojevich
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on
our commitment to promoting food access and good
eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
Rod Blagojevich
There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's
life and making choices that are not just ones for
immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an
investment, and the investment is in health and
education.
Buzz Aldrin

7. • Health is a dynamic
condition resulting from a
body's constant
adjustment and
adaptation in response to
stresses and changes in
the environment for
maintaining an inner
equilibrium called
homeostasis.

8. • Wellness is first and
foremost a choice to
assume responsibility for
the quality of your life. It
begins with a conscious
decision to shape a healthy
lifestyle.
Don Ardell, Ph.D.,

9. • World Health
Organization (WHO), in
1948, health is defined as
being "a state of
complete physical,
mental, and social well-
being and not merely the
absence of disease or
infirmity“.

10. FACTOR HEALTH IMPACT
Behavioral
Obesity Heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers
Smoking Lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, low
birth-weight infants
High-cholesterol diet Arteriosclerosis, heart disease
Moderate to heavy Cirrhosis, mouth cancers,
alcohol use complications of pregnancy,
low birth-weight infants
Regular exercise Reduced risk of heart disease

11. Mental/emotional
Depression Cancer
Prolonged grief/bereavement Early death
from a variety of causes
Emotional well-being Increased
resistance to infection
Social
Lack of close ties
Mental illness, respiratory disease complications
of pregnancy death from numerous causes

12. Spiritual
Concept of sin Stress of excessive guilt
Worship, prayer Decreased blood pressure,
increase mental stress
Environmental
Air pollution Emphysema, bronchitis,
Living near toxic waste dumps Spontaneous abortion
Pesticide exposure Birth defects

13. Economic/Political
Impoverished living conditions
- Nutritional disorders, heart disease,
diabetes, depression and marital
instability
Arrest, torture, execution for political reasons
- Possible death
Political interference with relief programs
- Communicable diseases, malnutrition,
possible death
Oppression, racism
- High blood pressure, heart disease among
ethnic minorities

14. 1. Heredity- the genetic make up is unique and cannot be altered after
conception. A number of diseases like chromosomal abnormalities,
errors of metabolism, mental retardation, some types of diabetes are of
genetic origin.
2. Environmental- the “internal” environment of man pertains to every
tissue, organ, organ-system, parts and their harmonious functioning.
The “external” environment pertains to all that is external to the
human host.
3. Life style-the way people live. It composed of cultural and behavioral
patterns and life long personal habits (smoking, alcoholism etc) that
have developed through the processes of socialization.

15. 4 Socio-economic conditions – the health status is
determined primarily by socioeconomic development.
Important socioeconomic factors are;
a) Economic status: the economic progress is the major
factor in reducing morbidity, increasing life expectancy &
improving quality of life.
b) Educational status: second major factor influencing
health is education. Literacy coincides with poverty,
malnutrition, ill health, high infant and child mortality
rates.
c) Occupation: unemployed people usually show higher
incidence of ill health and death. It can cause psychological
and social damage.
5. Health Services – it helps in the treatment of disease,
prevention of illness and promotion of health.

16. • A Health indicator is a characteristic of an
individual, population, or environment which
is subject to measurement (directly or
indirectly) and can be used to describe one or
more aspects of the health of an individual or
population (quality, quantity and time).

17. • Health indicators can be used to define public
health problems at a particular point in time,
to indicate change over time in the level of
the health of a population or individual, to
define differences in the health of
populations, and to assess the extent to
which the objectives of a program are being
reached.

18. Indicators of health are used to measure the health status of
a community and also to compare the health status of one country to
another.
1. mortality indicator 7. social and mental health
2. morbidity indicator 8. environmental indicators
3. disability rates 9. socio-economic indicators
4. nutritional status indicator 10. health policy indicators
5. health care delivery indicator 11. indicators of quality of life
6. utilization rates

19. • Public Health is the science and
art of promoting and improving
the health of communities
through education and
promotion of healthy life styles
and research for diseases and
injury prevention.

20. • Health situation monitoring and analysis
• Epidemiological surveillance/disease
prevention and control
• Development of policies and planning in
public health
• Health promotion, social participation and
empowerment
• Research, development and implementation
of innovative public health solutions.

21. • Community Health
• Environmental Health
• Behavioral Health
• Occupational Health

22. • Pre-Colonial Period
• Spanish Occupation
• US Occupation
• The Creation of Bureau of Health
• The Creation of the Department of Health

23. Jonas Salk administering vaccination
against polio in 1955.

24. Public health is a modern concept of human
development in science.

25. Public health made available through child welfare services.

26. Emergency Response Team

27. • Today, most governments recognize the
importance of public health programs in reducing
the incidence disease, disability, and the effects
of aging and other physical and mental health
conditions, although public health generally
receives significantly less government funding
compared with medicine.
• In recent years, public health programs providing
vaccinations have made incredible strides in
promoting health, including the eradication of
smallpox, a disease that plagued humanity for
thousands of years.

28. • Seeking to improve population health through the
implementation of specific population-level
interventions, public health contributes to medical
care by identifying and assessing population needs
for health care service.
• Assessing current services and evaluating whether
they are meeting the objectives of the health care
system
• Considering the effect on resources for proposed
interventions and assessing their cost-effectiveness
• Supporting decision making in health care and
planning health services including any necessary
changes.
• Informing, educating, and empowering people about
health issues

29. • Q: What's the most frequently diagnosed cancer
in men?
A: Prostate cancer.
• Q: What does "CPR" stand for in medical
emergencies?
A: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Q: What, along with heart disease and cancer,
accounts for 64 percent of U.S. deaths?
A: Stroke.
• Q: What virus did the World Health Organization
say would infect 40 million people by the year
2000?
A: HIV.

30. • Q: What do cosmetic surgeons remove 200,00
pounds of from Americans per year?
A: Fat.
• Q: What do doctors look at through an
ophthalmoscope?
A: The eye.
• Q: What disease accounts for two of every three
cases of dementia?
A: Alzheimer's.
• Q: What S-word is defined as "a lateral curvature
of the spine"?
A: Scoliosis.

31. • Q: What substance produced by the body is
counteracted by antihistamine drugs?
A: Histamine.
• Q: What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.
• Q: What's most likely to occur when your
diaphragm goes into spasms?
A: Hiccups.
• Q: What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis
better known as?
A: Athlete's foot.

32. • Q: How many times a day must you take
medication if your prescription reads "q.i.d."?
A: Four.
• Q: What part of the eye may be obscured by
cataracts?
A: The lens.
• Q: What arthritic disorder occurs due t increased
uric acid the the blood?
A: Gout.
• Q: What hereditary blood defect is known as "the
royal disease"?
A: Hemophilia.

33. • Q: What brain operation was tried first on a
confused 63-year-old female at George
Washington Hospital in 1956?
A: A lobotomy.
• Q: What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?
A: Muscle.
• Q: What was bovine spongiform encephalopathy
called by the British press in 1996?
A: Mad cow disease.
• Q: What's the medical term for low blood sugar?
A: Hypoglycemia.
• Q: What's the tranquilizer diazepam better
known as?
A: Valium.

34. • Q: What's the common term for a cerebrovascular
accident?
A: Stroke.
• Q: What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were
sorry they came into contact with?
A: Poison Ivy.
• Q: What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from
opium and use as a pain reliever?
A: Morphine.
• Q: What was the most widely prescribe antideppressant in
the U.S. in the 1990s?
A: Prozac.
• Q: What syndrome does SIDS mean to child care experts?
A: Sudden infant death syndrome.
• Q: What disease is the focus of oncology?
A: Cancer.

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