this slide is on challenges and opportunities in public health

1. CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES IN
PUBLIC HEALTH
Dr. Krishna Smirthi
I MPH

2. PROBLEM
CHALLENGE
 Health Challenges
 Social economic gap
 Economic challenges
 Environmental Challenges
 Public trust
 Individual freedom
 Political
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3. Health Challenges
Socio- Economic Inequality
 Expanding access to medicine
 Making health care fairer
 Preparing for epidemics
 Protecting people from dangerous product
 Investing in health
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4.  Technology
 Population growth(aging population)
 Risk of threats crowded cities are a target for terrorism including bioterrorism we
need to be ready to control these threats
Economic challenges
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5.  Some public health measures are not acceptable on religious and moral grounds
Examples: sex education and distribution of contraceptives and/or condoms to adolescents, the
anti-vaccination movement
Public trust
Restrict individual freedom for the purpose of improving community health as well as
individual health
Individual liberty
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6.  For better or worse, It plays a critical role in Public Health
 Reluctant to any change in health policy
Political
 Ensure environmental sustainability
 Climate
 Disaster management
Environment
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7. Governmental
 District health office
 Public health office
 Regional health directorate
 Regional training center
 Department of health services
Ministry of health and
population
 Primary health care
institutions
Others
 Academic institutions
 Research organizations
 Community development
organizations
 Quality control offices
 Health training centers
 NGO’s
Public Health Organizations
Opportunities
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8.  Population, Family Planning &
Reproductive Health
 Maternal Child Health
 Public Health Education and Health
Promotion
 Community health planning and policy
development
 Public health administration
 Epidemiology and disease control
 Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
A Sampling of Public Health
 Environmental & occupational health
and safety
 Food and nutrition
 Gerontological health
 HIV AIDS
 Injury control and emergency health
Services
 International Health
 Mental Health
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9.  Oral Health
 Public Health Nursing
 School Health Education andServices
 Women's health and gender development
Cont…
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10. Thank you