This is intro class of PHAM (Part 1)

1. PUBLIC HEALTH
ADMINISTRATION

2. CONCEPT
• Public health is defined as the science of
protecting the safety and improving the health of
communities through education, policy making
and research for disease and injury prevention.
• The field of public health administration concerns
itself with the administration, leadership, and
management of health care systems, such as
hospitals, networks, and public health systems.

3. Why Public Health Administration?
• you can enter the health care industry in a variety
of different settings.
• Whatever role you choose, you will have the
ABILITY to drive positive change in the community
that you serve.
• Working with federal, state, or local government
agencies to drive new health care policies
• Working for NGOs and nonprofit organizations,

4. your studies will start to focus on three principal
areas. These are:
• Studying the theory, concepts, and skills of
management. These include areas, such as financial
management, leadership, law, economics,
quantitative methods, organizational behavior, and
planning.
• Studying the health care industry itself. These
include areas, such as health and human behavior,
epidemiology, and medical care organizations.
• Applying and integrating all materials obtained
during the study, showing a greater understanding
of management concepts and how these apply to
public health administration. This is usually done
through an exam, paper, or major project.

5. • Some of the most important challenges of
strengthening public health systems are in
governance and management.

6. DEFINITION
• A component of the field of public health.
• Concentrates on management of people & programs.
• On a day-to-day basis, administration is needed to
ensure that organization operate efficiently & with
success.
• PHA is a term used to encompass all the duties required
in the management of facilities that provide health care
services, such as hospitals, social services organizations
and government agencies.
• Public health administrators, or medical and health
services managers, ensure that these facilities are
properly staffed and operate within the law.
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7. CONTD..
• Public health administration deals with plan, policy &
programs of public health including the management
of personnel, finance & other related matters.
• Focused on disease prevention, health promotion of
community people via. various programs – safe
drinking water, MCH, occupational & environmental
health, as well as the ongoing surveillance of health-
related issues within the community.
• Finally, it is an organized attempt to improve the
health of communities.
• Policies are based on populations rather than
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8. PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR
• Any personnel related to public health and having
required qualification and experience in
administration and management.
• The work of a public health administrator is at the
same time similar to and different from that of
persons engaged in administration in other fields.
• The administrative elements are similar, only the
field & process is different.
• These include supervising employees, coordinating
programs, preparing budgets, monitoring programs,
and evaluating results and outcomes.
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9. CONTD…
• Public health administrators are concerned with
health and disease prevention programs.
• The day-to-day activities of a public health
administrator include HRM; finance; performance
measurement and improvement; communications
and marketing; and maintaining relations with
members of the media and local government.
• A public health administrator must build relationships
with such various constituencies as consumer groups,
health providers and legislators.
• Leadership is an important aspect of public health
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10. EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• The actual field of study can vary but an undergraduate
degree in management, nursing, public health,
community health, applied health, allied health or a
related discipline is useful.
• An optimal undergraduate curriculum should include
course work in the following subject areas:
management, accounting, finance, economics, biology,
env. health, business, health law, and budgeting.
• Advanced training in public health administration can be
obtained from a formal graduate degree programs like –
-- MPH (most common graduate credential),
-- MHA, MHCM, -- MBA, MPA
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