This document outlines the strategic objectives and focus areas of a public health department for 2010-2013. It discusses fostering resilient communities by developing an integrated healthcare system and ensuring situational awareness during health threats or emergencies. The strategic objectives include developing the public health workforce, promoting effective communication during incidents, and incorporating post-incident recovery into planning. National health security is defined as being prepared for, protected from, and resilient against health threats.
Glen Griffiths has been involved in patient eHealth solutions since 2002. He provides advice and implements patient portal solutions, including supporting www.htmc.co.uk. Patient portals provide opportunities to build around affinity groups like those with specific diseases or locations. Portals can offer secure messaging, medical record access, transactional features, and signposting to trusted health information. Effective portals require motivation to inform patients systematically, resources for long-term commitment, and user activation.
Mental Health Forum May 2016 Walter KmetWalter Kmet
Walter Kmet, CEO of WentWest and WSPHN, discusses opportunities to improve integrated care delivery through the Primary Health Network framework. The framework focuses on integration at the whole-of-system, care/population group, and patient-centric levels. Kmet also emphasizes the importance of understanding population health needs, organizing care delivery through protocols and performance review, and strengthening payment, governance, information, leadership and other supports to build an integrated care system.
The document discusses achieving universal health coverage and strengthening health systems. It notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of countries having strong health systems that can provide quality services to the entire population. It emphasizes that more funding needs to go to health in order to reach the goal of universal coverage by 2030, including spending on protecting health workers, infrastructure, disease prevention, and community-level healthcare. It also stresses the need for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments for marginalized groups. The document promotes learning from innovative approaches to healthcare delivery seen during the pandemic and committing to invest in health systems that protect everyone.
A detailed approach to an integrated health care system in Scotland presented by Dr. Anne Hendry from National Clinical Lead for Integrated Care.
Source Page:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/city-operations/curam-research-institute/curam-roundtable/index.html
Population Health Management PresentationCANorfolk
The document discusses population health management (PHM) and its role in supporting integrated care systems (ICS) in the UK. Key points:
- ICSs will be established everywhere by 2021 to integrate primary/specialist care, physical/mental health, and health/social care.
- PHM solutions will help ICSs understand health needs and match NHS services accordingly through data analysis.
- PHM aims to improve population health through proactive, data-driven care that prevents illness and reduces health inequalities.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
The document discusses the importance of health workers and strengthening health systems. It notes that there is currently a shortage of over 7 million health workers globally, projected to rise to nearly 13 million. African countries will be hardest hit, with a shortage of 2 million doctors, nurses and midwives needed. The document reviews different components of health systems and provides examples of projects in the Philippines, Ghana and other countries that have empowered and supported health workers, helping address shortages. It argues for continued efforts to strengthen health systems, optimize resources, and foster an environment where health workers are motivated to help reach more people.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
This document summarizes strategies for strengthening health services to deliver improved nutrition. It outlines that while evidence-based interventions exist to address persistent nutrition issues like stunting and anemia, they require an equitable and high-quality delivery system. This involves developing the nutrition workforce through appropriate policies, training, supervision and resources. It also stresses the need to build community demand for better services and coordinate delivery across sectors through multi-level strengthening of health systems and partnerships with frontline workers. The goal is to systematically support service providers and empower communities to drive improved nutrition outcomes.
Health for all- primary health care- millennium development goalsAhmed-Refat Refat
PHC is the essential care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable method and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost they and the country can afford to maintain in the spirit of self reliance and self determination.
Al
Glen Griffiths has been involved in patient eHealth solutions since 2002. He provides advice and implements patient portal solutions, including supporting www.htmc.co.uk. Patient portals provide opportunities to build around affinity groups like those with specific diseases or locations. Portals can offer secure messaging, medical record access, transactional features, and signposting to trusted health information. Effective portals require motivation to inform patients systematically, resources for long-term commitment, and user activation.
Mental Health Forum May 2016 Walter KmetWalter Kmet
Walter Kmet, CEO of WentWest and WSPHN, discusses opportunities to improve integrated care delivery through the Primary Health Network framework. The framework focuses on integration at the whole-of-system, care/population group, and patient-centric levels. Kmet also emphasizes the importance of understanding population health needs, organizing care delivery through protocols and performance review, and strengthening payment, governance, information, leadership and other supports to build an integrated care system.
The document discusses achieving universal health coverage and strengthening health systems. It notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of countries having strong health systems that can provide quality services to the entire population. It emphasizes that more funding needs to go to health in order to reach the goal of universal coverage by 2030, including spending on protecting health workers, infrastructure, disease prevention, and community-level healthcare. It also stresses the need for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments for marginalized groups. The document promotes learning from innovative approaches to healthcare delivery seen during the pandemic and committing to invest in health systems that protect everyone.
A detailed approach to an integrated health care system in Scotland presented by Dr. Anne Hendry from National Clinical Lead for Integrated Care.
Source Page:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/city-operations/curam-research-institute/curam-roundtable/index.html
Population Health Management PresentationCANorfolk
The document discusses population health management (PHM) and its role in supporting integrated care systems (ICS) in the UK. Key points:
- ICSs will be established everywhere by 2021 to integrate primary/specialist care, physical/mental health, and health/social care.
- PHM solutions will help ICSs understand health needs and match NHS services accordingly through data analysis.
- PHM aims to improve population health through proactive, data-driven care that prevents illness and reduces health inequalities.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
The document discusses the importance of health workers and strengthening health systems. It notes that there is currently a shortage of over 7 million health workers globally, projected to rise to nearly 13 million. African countries will be hardest hit, with a shortage of 2 million doctors, nurses and midwives needed. The document reviews different components of health systems and provides examples of projects in the Philippines, Ghana and other countries that have empowered and supported health workers, helping address shortages. It argues for continued efforts to strengthen health systems, optimize resources, and foster an environment where health workers are motivated to help reach more people.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
This document summarizes strategies for strengthening health services to deliver improved nutrition. It outlines that while evidence-based interventions exist to address persistent nutrition issues like stunting and anemia, they require an equitable and high-quality delivery system. This involves developing the nutrition workforce through appropriate policies, training, supervision and resources. It also stresses the need to build community demand for better services and coordinate delivery across sectors through multi-level strengthening of health systems and partnerships with frontline workers. The goal is to systematically support service providers and empower communities to drive improved nutrition outcomes.
Health for all- primary health care- millennium development goalsAhmed-Refat Refat
PHC is the essential care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable method and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost they and the country can afford to maintain in the spirit of self reliance and self determination.
Al
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
This document summarizes community health interventions in Senegal supported by USAID and ChildFund Senegal from 2006-2021. It discusses expanding access to health services, strengthening service delivery through standardizing tools and training community health volunteers, and institutionalizing community health services. Key accomplishments include expanding coverage, strengthening service delivery, and motivating community health volunteers. Recent initiatives focus on gender and youth, including revising home visiting and community alert strategies to engage men and adolescents. The Community Action Cycle aims to prevent early marriage and pregnancy through community reflection and mobilization.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
The C3 tool is an Excel-based tool that can examine options for allocating and engaging CHWs (community health workers) to help strengthen CHW policy and programming. It allows users to input data on the population, CHW workload and time spent on various health activities. The tool then compares the number of CHWs needed to implement different policy scenarios against the number of CHWs available to determine if coverage targets can be realistically achieved. It is meant to facilitate planning and discussions between ministries of health and partners on rational CHW programming approaches based on available resources. The tool does not provide costing information or guarantee accurate predictions, but allows comparison of alternative CHW allocation scenarios to help guide policy decisions.
Workplace health promotion presentationmike parker
Workplace health promotion programs aim to improve employee health and reduce costs through coordinated policies, benefits, and environmental supports. These programs address multiple health risks and levels of the organization at once. Increasing costs of healthcare and decreased productivity due to employee illness are driving more employers to implement wellness programs. Evaluation of programs shows some success in increasing healthy behaviors like fruit/vegetable consumption and decreasing smoking rates. Further research is still needed to identify the most effective interventions.
This document outlines the key aspects of primary health care according to the WHO and the Declaration of Alma-Ata. It discusses the eight essential elements of primary health care, including health education, treatment of endemic diseases, immunization, and maternal/child health. The four pillars of primary health care are also defined as active community participation, inter-sectoral linkages, appropriate technology use, and support mechanisms. Primary health care aims to be accessible and affordable while addressing the major health problems in a community through promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services.
Function , Core competencies and scope of public healthsirjana Tiwari
The document discusses the core competencies and scope of public health. It outlines seven core competencies - biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, social and behavioral sciences, critical thinking, and problem solving. It also discusses emerging competencies like evidence-based approaches, public health systems, planning/management, policy, leadership, communication, and inter-professional practice. Additionally, the document outlines the broad scope of public health, covering areas like infectious and chronic disease prevention, mental health, bioterrorism, demography, environmental health, health financing, and addressing social determinants of health.
This document discusses improving access to and equity in healthcare. It notes that while progress has been made towards the Millennium Development Goals, significant gaps remain between the health and life expectancy of different groups. Two success stories are provided that illustrate how nurses are helping to close these gaps and improve access: 1) A nurse visits at-risk mothers and their families to improve health outcomes and reduce social problems. 2) A nurse practitioner travels to provide chronic disease care to underserved rural and Aboriginal communities.
Challenges towards health care & Nursing personnel due to Covid 19Mounika Bhallam
CHALLENGES TOWARDS HEALTH CARE & NURSING PERSONNEL DUE TO COVID -19: this topic will provide knowledge regarding Challenges and overcoming of covid issues in Hospital and community.
This document discusses key concepts in health policy, including definitions of health policy, the aims of health policies in maintaining and improving population health status, and essential concepts like health status, health services, organization and financing of health systems, and the roles of public health, health commissioning, and ensuring appropriateness of care. It also covers international trends, provider-purchaser models, and major challenges for developing countries, including health reform, decentralization, tools for policymaking, and ensuring equity in health.
Decentralization
Tools of Policy making
Financing Health care
Public-Private Partnership
Health Research
International Organizations
Equity
Health Reforms in Developing Countries
Stake Holders
This document discusses the primary health care system, including its goals, definition, organization, and role of community nurses. It describes the primary health care system in Egypt, which aims to provide universal health coverage through initiatives like expanding health insurance and reorganizing services into a family-focused approach. The primary health care system has different levels of care - primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. It operates based on principles like being equitable, appropriate, and community-participating.
Homes Within Reach: County Behavioral Health Housing Plans 2015Marcella Maguire
PA Housing Alliance's annual Homes within Reach conference brings together leaders in state affordable housing initiatives. This presentation educates that audience about the state's requirement that every County's Behavioral Health Authority have a County Housing Plan.
Tatjana Hejgaard, Karen Karlsson Eriksen, Knowledge-based recommendations in ...THL
This document discusses knowledge-based recommendations for health promotion provided to municipalities in Denmark. It notes that Denmark has a population of 5.8 million people divided into 5 regions and 98 municipalities, on average with 59,000 people each. The municipalities are responsible for services like childcare, schools, eldercare, unemployment services, and local health promotion. 235 recommendations across 11 health topics like overweight, drugs, hygiene, and physical activity have been developed. Implementation of the recommendations focuses on areas like programs, information, early identification, and follow up. An example recommendation on programs for school children with moderate overweight is provided. Overall municipalities have positively received the recommendations and made progress in implementing them in areas such as diet, physical activity, mental
Shaping public health in south africa through health yogan pillayNCAS1
Health Promotions Foundation South Africa, Benefits of a Health Promotions Foundation, National Council Against Smoking, Soul City, HPF, Soul City Phuza Wize Campaign,
The document discusses improving health literacy to reduce health inequalities. It finds that limited health literacy is associated with unhealthy behaviors and increased health risks, and disproportionately impacts disadvantaged groups. Improving health literacy can build resilience, empower self-management of long-term conditions, and address social determinants of health. Effective strategies include developing health literacy from an early age, ensuring accessible health information and services, improving general literacy and skills, and adopting community-led and tailored approaches for vulnerable groups.
Primary health care is the first level of contact between individuals and the health system, providing essential care for common health problems. It aims to provide universally accessible care that is scientifically sound, socially appropriate, and prioritizes those most in need. Evidence shows primary care-oriented systems lead to better health outcomes, lower costs, and greater equity. The document proposes a holistic ecosystem approach that incorporates contributions from all stakeholders to make primary health care centers more attractive and effective in underserved rural areas. It suggests training local students and providing incentives to work in these areas, as well as leveraging technology and public-private partnerships to expand access to primary care.
Foundational Learning in Social Determinants of Health for Health Professionals by Dr. Haydee Encarnacion Garcia. Presented at the Emerging Trends in Nursing Conference at Indiana Wesleyan University on June 1, 2017.
Developing non-clinical approaches and are pathways to fundamental socioeconomic issues that are presented in the primary care and secondary care settings
The document discusses key concepts and components related to health, public health, and primary health care. It defines health as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Public health aims to improve health through prevention of disease and promotion of healthy lifestyles. Primary health care focuses on equitable access to services including public education, nutrition, sanitation, immunization, and treatment. It is based on principles of community participation and intersectoral collaboration.
Social prescribing is an intervention that aims to address patients' non-clinical needs by connecting them with local community services and activities like arts, leisure, learning, or volunteering groups. It has shown positive mental, emotional, and social benefits. The advantages include reduced need for clinical care, increased patient autonomy, and acknowledgment of socioeconomic factors impacting health. The US model incorporates a social prescribing coordinator and volunteers to guide patients to alternative services and support individual needs. UK clinicians agree patients' social needs are as important as medical conditions, and social prescribing could help address unmet resource needs in primary care.
PRIME Centre Wales
Long Term Conditions Consensus Meeting
Tuesday 10th November 2015, St Mary's Priory, Abergavenny, NP7 5ND
http://www.primecentre.wales/ltc-consensus-meeting.php
The document discusses public health approaches and models. It differentiates between the public health model, which focuses on populations, disease prevention, health promotion and environmental/behavioral interventions, and the medical model, which focuses on individual diagnosis, treatment and medical interventions. The public health approach involves defining health problems, identifying risk factors, developing and testing population-level interventions, and monitoring/evaluating interventions. Key principles of public health approaches include focusing on overall population health, addressing multiple determinants of health, collaborating across sectors, basing decisions on evidence, and investing in upstream factors. Challenges to public health approaches include fragmentation, lack of resources, weak capacity and poor connections between research and policymaking.
Management as a function of quality assurancesamehibrahim44
This document discusses health care delivery systems and primary health care. It defines primary health care as essential health care that is accessible to communities based on practical and scientifically sound methods. The key principles of primary health care are intersectoral collaboration, community participation, appropriate technology, equity, prevention and health promotion, and decentralization. The document also outlines the eight essential elements of primary health care: immunization, nutrition, water/sanitation, disease treatment, health education, maternal/child care including family planning, essential drugs, and additional elements like oral health and mental health. It defines key terms related to health care delivery systems.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
This document summarizes community health interventions in Senegal supported by USAID and ChildFund Senegal from 2006-2021. It discusses expanding access to health services, strengthening service delivery through standardizing tools and training community health volunteers, and institutionalizing community health services. Key accomplishments include expanding coverage, strengthening service delivery, and motivating community health volunteers. Recent initiatives focus on gender and youth, including revising home visiting and community alert strategies to engage men and adolescents. The Community Action Cycle aims to prevent early marriage and pregnancy through community reflection and mobilization.
Strengthening the Building Blocks of Health Systems Doing Better, Reaching Mo...CORE Group
The C3 tool is an Excel-based tool that can examine options for allocating and engaging CHWs (community health workers) to help strengthen CHW policy and programming. It allows users to input data on the population, CHW workload and time spent on various health activities. The tool then compares the number of CHWs needed to implement different policy scenarios against the number of CHWs available to determine if coverage targets can be realistically achieved. It is meant to facilitate planning and discussions between ministries of health and partners on rational CHW programming approaches based on available resources. The tool does not provide costing information or guarantee accurate predictions, but allows comparison of alternative CHW allocation scenarios to help guide policy decisions.
Workplace health promotion presentationmike parker
Workplace health promotion programs aim to improve employee health and reduce costs through coordinated policies, benefits, and environmental supports. These programs address multiple health risks and levels of the organization at once. Increasing costs of healthcare and decreased productivity due to employee illness are driving more employers to implement wellness programs. Evaluation of programs shows some success in increasing healthy behaviors like fruit/vegetable consumption and decreasing smoking rates. Further research is still needed to identify the most effective interventions.
This document outlines the key aspects of primary health care according to the WHO and the Declaration of Alma-Ata. It discusses the eight essential elements of primary health care, including health education, treatment of endemic diseases, immunization, and maternal/child health. The four pillars of primary health care are also defined as active community participation, inter-sectoral linkages, appropriate technology use, and support mechanisms. Primary health care aims to be accessible and affordable while addressing the major health problems in a community through promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services.
Function , Core competencies and scope of public healthsirjana Tiwari
The document discusses the core competencies and scope of public health. It outlines seven core competencies - biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, social and behavioral sciences, critical thinking, and problem solving. It also discusses emerging competencies like evidence-based approaches, public health systems, planning/management, policy, leadership, communication, and inter-professional practice. Additionally, the document outlines the broad scope of public health, covering areas like infectious and chronic disease prevention, mental health, bioterrorism, demography, environmental health, health financing, and addressing social determinants of health.
This document discusses improving access to and equity in healthcare. It notes that while progress has been made towards the Millennium Development Goals, significant gaps remain between the health and life expectancy of different groups. Two success stories are provided that illustrate how nurses are helping to close these gaps and improve access: 1) A nurse visits at-risk mothers and their families to improve health outcomes and reduce social problems. 2) A nurse practitioner travels to provide chronic disease care to underserved rural and Aboriginal communities.
Challenges towards health care & Nursing personnel due to Covid 19Mounika Bhallam
CHALLENGES TOWARDS HEALTH CARE & NURSING PERSONNEL DUE TO COVID -19: this topic will provide knowledge regarding Challenges and overcoming of covid issues in Hospital and community.
This document discusses key concepts in health policy, including definitions of health policy, the aims of health policies in maintaining and improving population health status, and essential concepts like health status, health services, organization and financing of health systems, and the roles of public health, health commissioning, and ensuring appropriateness of care. It also covers international trends, provider-purchaser models, and major challenges for developing countries, including health reform, decentralization, tools for policymaking, and ensuring equity in health.
Decentralization
Tools of Policy making
Financing Health care
Public-Private Partnership
Health Research
International Organizations
Equity
Health Reforms in Developing Countries
Stake Holders
This document discusses the primary health care system, including its goals, definition, organization, and role of community nurses. It describes the primary health care system in Egypt, which aims to provide universal health coverage through initiatives like expanding health insurance and reorganizing services into a family-focused approach. The primary health care system has different levels of care - primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. It operates based on principles like being equitable, appropriate, and community-participating.
Homes Within Reach: County Behavioral Health Housing Plans 2015Marcella Maguire
PA Housing Alliance's annual Homes within Reach conference brings together leaders in state affordable housing initiatives. This presentation educates that audience about the state's requirement that every County's Behavioral Health Authority have a County Housing Plan.
Tatjana Hejgaard, Karen Karlsson Eriksen, Knowledge-based recommendations in ...THL
This document discusses knowledge-based recommendations for health promotion provided to municipalities in Denmark. It notes that Denmark has a population of 5.8 million people divided into 5 regions and 98 municipalities, on average with 59,000 people each. The municipalities are responsible for services like childcare, schools, eldercare, unemployment services, and local health promotion. 235 recommendations across 11 health topics like overweight, drugs, hygiene, and physical activity have been developed. Implementation of the recommendations focuses on areas like programs, information, early identification, and follow up. An example recommendation on programs for school children with moderate overweight is provided. Overall municipalities have positively received the recommendations and made progress in implementing them in areas such as diet, physical activity, mental
Shaping public health in south africa through health yogan pillayNCAS1
Health Promotions Foundation South Africa, Benefits of a Health Promotions Foundation, National Council Against Smoking, Soul City, HPF, Soul City Phuza Wize Campaign,
The document discusses improving health literacy to reduce health inequalities. It finds that limited health literacy is associated with unhealthy behaviors and increased health risks, and disproportionately impacts disadvantaged groups. Improving health literacy can build resilience, empower self-management of long-term conditions, and address social determinants of health. Effective strategies include developing health literacy from an early age, ensuring accessible health information and services, improving general literacy and skills, and adopting community-led and tailored approaches for vulnerable groups.
Primary health care is the first level of contact between individuals and the health system, providing essential care for common health problems. It aims to provide universally accessible care that is scientifically sound, socially appropriate, and prioritizes those most in need. Evidence shows primary care-oriented systems lead to better health outcomes, lower costs, and greater equity. The document proposes a holistic ecosystem approach that incorporates contributions from all stakeholders to make primary health care centers more attractive and effective in underserved rural areas. It suggests training local students and providing incentives to work in these areas, as well as leveraging technology and public-private partnerships to expand access to primary care.
Foundational Learning in Social Determinants of Health for Health Professionals by Dr. Haydee Encarnacion Garcia. Presented at the Emerging Trends in Nursing Conference at Indiana Wesleyan University on June 1, 2017.
Developing non-clinical approaches and are pathways to fundamental socioeconomic issues that are presented in the primary care and secondary care settings
The document discusses key concepts and components related to health, public health, and primary health care. It defines health as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Public health aims to improve health through prevention of disease and promotion of healthy lifestyles. Primary health care focuses on equitable access to services including public education, nutrition, sanitation, immunization, and treatment. It is based on principles of community participation and intersectoral collaboration.
Social prescribing is an intervention that aims to address patients' non-clinical needs by connecting them with local community services and activities like arts, leisure, learning, or volunteering groups. It has shown positive mental, emotional, and social benefits. The advantages include reduced need for clinical care, increased patient autonomy, and acknowledgment of socioeconomic factors impacting health. The US model incorporates a social prescribing coordinator and volunteers to guide patients to alternative services and support individual needs. UK clinicians agree patients' social needs are as important as medical conditions, and social prescribing could help address unmet resource needs in primary care.
PRIME Centre Wales
Long Term Conditions Consensus Meeting
Tuesday 10th November 2015, St Mary's Priory, Abergavenny, NP7 5ND
http://www.primecentre.wales/ltc-consensus-meeting.php
The document discusses public health approaches and models. It differentiates between the public health model, which focuses on populations, disease prevention, health promotion and environmental/behavioral interventions, and the medical model, which focuses on individual diagnosis, treatment and medical interventions. The public health approach involves defining health problems, identifying risk factors, developing and testing population-level interventions, and monitoring/evaluating interventions. Key principles of public health approaches include focusing on overall population health, addressing multiple determinants of health, collaborating across sectors, basing decisions on evidence, and investing in upstream factors. Challenges to public health approaches include fragmentation, lack of resources, weak capacity and poor connections between research and policymaking.
Management as a function of quality assurancesamehibrahim44
This document discusses health care delivery systems and primary health care. It defines primary health care as essential health care that is accessible to communities based on practical and scientifically sound methods. The key principles of primary health care are intersectoral collaboration, community participation, appropriate technology, equity, prevention and health promotion, and decentralization. The document also outlines the eight essential elements of primary health care: immunization, nutrition, water/sanitation, disease treatment, health education, maternal/child care including family planning, essential drugs, and additional elements like oral health and mental health. It defines key terms related to health care delivery systems.
Mike Harryman National Health Security Strategy.pptFETPBatch30
The National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) provides guidance for minimizing health risks from large-scale incidents. It defines national health security as being prepared for, protected from, able to respond to, and recover from incidents. The NHSS aims to build community resilience and strengthen emergency response systems. Key components of community resilience include public health, social connections, and organizational integration. The strategy emphasizes that healthy communities are resilient communities. Implementing the NHSS requires coordination across all levels of government and various organizations.
The National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) provides guidance for minimizing health risks from large-scale incidents. It defines national health security as being prepared for, protected from, able to respond to, and recover from incidents. The NHSS aims to build community resilience and strengthen emergency response systems. Key components of community resilience include public health, social connections, and organizational integration. The strategy emphasizes that health communities are resilient communities and addresses the needs of at-risk groups. It also expresses that health security requires cooperation across all levels of government, organizations, communities, and individuals.
The existing gross inequalities in the health status of people, particularly between developed and developing countries as well as within countries are of common concern to all countries. Hence, the need for the Alma- Ata declarations which states that health is a basic human right, and that governments should be responsible to assure that right for their citizens and to develop appropriate strategies to fulfill this promise.
Community health nursing combines nursing skills with public health to promote health and prevent illness at the community level. It focuses on populations rather than individuals. The goals are to empower communities to address their own health issues, strengthen community resources, and provide services like health education, immunizations, and clinics. Community health nurses conduct home visits, run clinics, collect local health data, and link people to services. Their roles include direct caregiving, education, advocacy, and coordinating care for populations.
All Our Health - A Call to Action to All Healthcare ProfessionalsViv Bennett
A Public Health England programme - All Our Health is a call to action for all healthcare professionals, individually and collectively, to close the health and wellbeing gap,
contribute to a radical upgrade in prevention and public health and develop a social movement for health
This document provides an overview of community health programs in the Philippines. It discusses key concepts in community health including primary health care, determinants of health, and the levels of the health care system. It also outlines several specific health programs implemented by the Department of Health in the Philippines, including programs focused on adolescents, breastfeeding promotion, cancer control, and diabetes control. The overall goal of the health programs is to improve health outcomes by reducing mortality and morbidity rates through prevention and early treatment initiatives.
World international health day april 7 th 2019anjalatchi
The document discusses World Health Day which is celebrated annually on April 7th. The theme for 2019 is universal health coverage, with a focus on ensuring everyone can access needed care. Key goals are improving understanding of universal health coverage and its foundation of primary healthcare, and spurring action to make universal healthcare a reality worldwide. The document outlines characteristics of primary healthcare and its role as the basis for achieving universal coverage and better health outcomes. Stakeholders like health workers and policymakers have important roles to play in realizing health for all.
1) The document discusses establishing Wellness Clinics in India under the Ayushman Bharat program to deliver comprehensive primary health care services close to where people live.
2) It outlines plans to convert 150,000 sub-centers and primary health centers into Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs) by 2022 to provide services like screening for non-communicable diseases, reproductive health services, and treatment of minor ailments.
3) The HWCs will be staffed by mid-level health providers and ASHA workers who will receive additional training to handle the expanded services while ensuring continuity of care through referrals between different levels of facilities.
This is the first part of the lecture in Community Health Nursing. This course provides an overview of the Philippine Health Care Delivery System and the different programs implemented by the Philippine Department of Health to promote and protect the health of the people.
This document provides an overview of community health nursing. It defines key terms like community, health, and nursing. It describes the causes of poor health and the three types of communities. It explains that community health nursing combines nursing, public health, and social work to promote health, prevent disease, and rehabilitate illness within a defined community. The aims, objectives, principles, functions, and roles of community health nursing are outlined. These include health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, evaluation, and research at the individual, family, and population levels.
Primary health care (PHC) aims to provide comprehensive, affordable care that is as close to communities as possible. The key principles of PHC are that it is socially appropriate, universally accessible, and focuses on those most in need. PHC addresses major health problems through promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services. It incorporates related sectors like agriculture, education, and housing. PHC relies on community participation and self-reliance. Its core activities include education on health problems, nutrition, immunization, and treatment of common illnesses. PHC forms the basis of broader health systems by organizing resources to promote health and narrow health inequalities.
community oeiented nursing and family oriented nursingRahulPawar515923
1) Community-oriented nursing focuses on preserving the health of entire communities and populations, as well as individuals and families. It aims to provide care in community-based settings to reduce healthcare costs.
2) Public health nursing is a form of community-oriented nursing that emphasizes disease prevention for populations through services like health monitoring, policy development, and ensuring access to care.
3) Family-oriented nursing provides care to families as a unit, with the goals of identifying health needs, educating families, and helping them manage health independently.
Community health nursing synthesizes nursing and public health knowledge to promote health and prevent disease at the community level. It involves assessing community health needs, planning and implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes. Key roles of the community health nurse include providing direct care, advocating for clients, consulting with other providers, coordinating services, educating the public, and evaluating programs. The overall goal is to improve health across an entire population.
Unit -I : Community Health IntroductionSMVDCoN ,J&K
Special field of nursing that combines the skill of nursing, public health and same phase of social assistance and function as part of the total public health program for the promotion of health, the improvement of the condition in the social & physical environment, rehabilitation of illness & Disability.
The document discusses different types of community-oriented nursing. It describes community-based nursing as focusing on illness care of individuals and families across the lifespan. Community health nursing focuses on health care of entire communities and populations as well as individuals, families, and groups. The goal of public health nursing is to organize community efforts to prevent disease and promote health through applying scientific knowledge.
Primary health care (PHC) refers to essential health care that is accessible, affordable, and provided at the local community level. It aims to address the most common health problems and is the first point of contact for individuals with the health system. PHC services include health promotion, disease prevention, treatment of common illnesses, and community development. It is intended to be universally accessible and rely on community participation. The principles of PHC emphasize equity, self-reliance, and intersectoral coordination.
Primary health care (PHC) refers to essential health care that is accessible, affordable, and provided at the local community level. It aims to address the most common health problems and is the first point of contact for individuals with the health system. PHC services include health promotion, disease prevention, treatment of common illnesses, and community development. It is intended to be universally accessible and rely on community participation. The principles of PHC emphasize equity, self-reliance, and involvement of all community sectors.
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This document summarizes a rabies forum held in Jefferson County, Colorado on October 9, 2014. It discusses rabies concerns in Colorado and Jefferson County, including recent case data showing increasing cases in bats and skunks. Prevention strategies are covered, including vaccinating pets, avoiding contact with wildlife, and quarantining or observing animals after exposures. Quarantine requirements differ based on the animal's vaccination status and type of exposure. The forum aims to educate public health practitioners and veterinarians on rabies transmission and prevention.
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3. EP Three Year CyclesEP Three Year Cycles
• 2004 – 2007 Mass Prophylaxis
• 2007 – 2010 Hospital/Medical Surge
• 2010 – 2013 National Health Security
Strategy
4. National Health Security StrategyNational Health Security Strategy
• The purpose of the National Health Security Strategy
(NHSS) is to refocus the patchwork of disparate public
health and medical preparedness, response, and
recovery strategies in order to ensure that the nation is
prepared for, protected from, and resilient in the face of
health threats or incidents with potentially negative
health consequences. This refocusing will strengthen
the community, integrate response and recovery
systems, generate a framework for accountability and
continuous quality improvement, and create seamless
coordination between all levels of the medical system.
The resulting NHSS will provide a common vision for
how the nation will achieve national health security.
5. National Health SecurityNational Health Security
• National health security is a state in which
the nation and its people are prepared for,
protected from, and resilient in the face of
health threats or incidents with potentially
negative health consequences.
6. Strategic ObjectivesStrategic Objectives
1. Foster informed, empowered individuals
and communities
2. Develop and maintain the workforce
3. Ensure situational awareness
4. Foster integrated, scalable healthcare
delivery systems
5. Ensure timely and effective
communications
7. Strategic ObjectivesStrategic Objectives
6. Promote an effective countermeasures
enterprise
7. Ensure prevention or mitigation of
environmental and emerging threats
8. Incorporate post-incident health recovery
into planning and response
9. Work to enhance national health security
10.Ensure all systems are based on good
science and quality improvement
8. When something goes wrong, do you tend to
bounce back or fall apart? When you have
resilience, you harness inner strengths and
rebound more quickly from a setback or
challenge, whether it's a job loss, an illness, a
disaster or the death of a loved one.
In contrast, if you lack resilience, you tend to
dwell on problems, feel victimized, become
overwhelmed and turn to unhealthy coping
mechanisms. You may even be more inclined to
develop mental health problems.
9. Because disaster disrupts so many aspects
of daily life, many problems for disaster
survivors are immediate and practical in
nature. People may need help locating
missing loved ones; finding temporary
housing, clothing, and food; obtaining
transportation; applying for financial
assistance, unemployment insurance,
building permits, income tax assistance;
getting medical care, replacement of
eyeglasses or medications; obtaining help
with demolition, digging out and clean-up.
11. Next StepsNext Steps
• Staff Inventory
• Continued work with special needs
• Continued work with other programs
• Encouraging community preparedness
• Epidemiology
12. Staff InventoryStaff Inventory
• Mental health training
• Community organizations/neighbors
• Health promotion
• Gardening skills
• Mechanical/trade skills
• Flexibility
• Adaptability
14. JCPH Program IntegrationJCPH Program Integration
• Produce Fairs/Food Security
• Tobacco Cessation
• Environmental Health/Community Plans
• Community Health Assessment
– Special Needs
• Health Promotions
• Emergency Preparedness
– Plans & Training
17. An adequately sized, capable, and diverse
workforce is a key ingredient of health
security systems. The workforce for
national health security includes but is not
limited to employees in public health,
health care, homeland security, pre-
hospital emergency medical systems,
volunteers and others.
18. During National Preparedness Month, we
stress the importance of strengthening the
security and resiliency of our Nation
through systematic preparation for the full
range of hazards threatening the United
States in the 21st century, including
natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemic
disease, and acts of terrorism
Proclamation - President Barack Obama,
Today I will be talking about our focus for the next three years. Every three years the CDPHE in coordination with the CDC establishes a general focus. While we still do a lot of other things this is kind of our overarching goal. The next three years, and our grant year begins in August so we just technically are moving into 20010, but the focus will be resiliency.
I would like to start with the slide that I have ended with in my last two presentations. I felt very strongly that becoming recognized for our efforts in EP by NACCHO and PPHR would be very important. It has been primarily because we turned in such a strong application. Because of this leadership we were awarded the only extra position in the state last year. This position primarily supports other counties who are now going through that application process, but she is housed here and works on other projects with us as well. Surveillance has grown considerably over the last year with our continuing relationship with infection control at Lutheran, and the school surveillance project that we did last year. And now food defense is taking off in private industry. Just the other day a great community partner Miller Coors talked about how they are working very hard on their food defense plans. Food defense is basically assuring that you have the controls in place to prevent intentional contamination of your product, there is even a checklist of things that make you more vulnerable and what you can do to reduce those vulnerabilities. So we were pretty much on the mark with where we thought a lot of our focus should be.
It is nice to see that they are trying to bring things together at the national level and create a system that works. I can tell you, regardless of your political perspective, that from my perspective I have seen some movement towards more coordination throughout government.
The trend here that is relevant is the resiliency piece. Response occurs in sort of a cycle, preparedness, response, and recovery. In looking at my slide of the future we have focused a lot on planning and preparedness, now we need to focus on the final piece which is recovery. I can tell you from personal experience, ittook us over a year from the first H1N1 case to finally get back to a point where we aren’t dealing with H1N1. I thought a lot about the long term implications of our response and I knew it would drag on but we did not have a recovery plan done, this will be one of our top priorities. Of course after a year, how resilient will our staff be if we have another hard influenza year? How resilient will the community be? We need to think about that.
These are some of the challenges that come up, I found these while doing a Google search on this subject just to see what would come up. Obviously a lot of it comes back to the mental health issues that people deal with following disasters. These issues are a problem but on the bright side there is such a foundation of work related to this already that applying it to EP is a small step. Also, we have focused a lot on the individual because each person obviously deals with disaster is different ways, this allows us to take a broader approach to community resiliency.
We have talked a lot about how having a plan, developing a kit and making sure that you have extra batteries, meds, etc on hand is important. Do you have copies of important paperwork or documents? Do you have at least some of the things that you rely on to create a sense of normalcy. But we have not focused a lot about how being healthy can help you be more resilient following a disaster. As my friend says “health is the first wealth”. If you are generally in good health following an event you can do more to help yourself and your family or community to recover. This sense of self reliance, this ability to begin to move your life back to normalcy, has been shown to reduce the incidence of stress and other issues related to traumatic events. But if you are in poor health and unable to reestablish a routine or do certain things for yourself, it could create more stress.
I think there has been a lot of discussion over the last several years surrounding healthcare debate regarding how we tend to deal with problems after they happen. This is important but I think we are slowly seeing a shift towards more prevention based activities, that of course is our job. At the NACCHO conference this year there was a lot of talk about this resiliency focus and one of the themes that came out of this was that a health community is a resilient community. So I think you can start to see how encouraging departments to focus on this can truly integrate EP with everything else that public health does. We will still be there for mass clinics, for distributing meds, working with all of our partners on all hazards response, but when the excitement dies down from all of the effort and work we still have to remember that some of our communities may not fully recover for a long time. Look at LA five years after Katrina, we can look at the new homes, we can look at the rebuilding, but is there any research out there about how the community is coping? Is there anything that we could learn from that to make sure that if we have a bad flu year, if SARS reappears, can we be doing anything now that will help our communities bounce back faster? Even a major snowstorm or a large fire if you have been following what is going on is Russia where people have to shelter in place or are exposed to harmful smoke; the healthier they are the easier it will be on all response organizations.
Another thing we can do is a staff inventory, this was initially done right before the DNC. The goal of this is to capture any skills that staff might have related to resiliency that they don’t use in their current role or that we might not know about.
So what do we do for this or how do we go about integrating a resiliency approach into what we do? Now that our funding has dropped back to more traditional levels its not like we can just keep doing more. Our saving grace is the partnerships that we have both within the organization and the county. We are going to have to rely on the people in the organization to help us out. And before I get to many people upset with me this does not mean asking them to do more work, it means us working with them on what they already do and translating that into EP plans. So many of our staff are out in the community everyday working and educating people on what we do. If we can support this work and make sure it is coordinated than we are building resilient communities by just doing our daily work. To give one great example of how this would work is through the advocacy group that grew out of strategic planning. This group came up with I think 8 slides that could be added to any presentation that anyone in the department does. These slides give a quick overview of JCPH and what we do. Adding one more slide about resiliency can help get this going.
Data collection and community health assessments are specifically discussed in the NHS as a way to effectively collect information to identify risk which will be used to determine workforce shortages and invest in building capacity. This makes me excited as well. I had made a push to include H1N1 evaluation as part of the upcoming health assessments required by SB 194. I felt at the time that this assessment could be used to bring this all together. Fortunately someone saw the wisdom in that and it is now going to be a part of the national health strategy.
Two things about this slide: When I first started doing this work having public health mentioned before homeland security or many of these other disciplines was rare. So public health is rising in visibility. The next paragraph in the Health Security Strategy goes on to talk about how shortages are projected in key workforce areas the primary one being public. So they are doing a gap analysis and risk assessment as we speak related to how to improve the PH workforce, what the outcome will be I do not know but I have already e-mailed HHS and asked for 2 million dollars.
One final note on the NHS related to PH. One of the last concepts they present in the interim plan is that they need to find ways to integrate NHS into routine PH programs. I talked about that a little bit from the perspective of resiliency but the plan talks about it from the perspective of health security in general. This is what we have been talking about for years, EP has the same mission as the rest of public health, and because this is the program that health security is being driven through we can be the doorway to introduce health security into routine programs.
I know I got away from the specific focus of resiliency but I started putting the presentation together before I read the guidance and I was very pleasantly surprised with how much the yare trying to integrate public health into the big picture. So we will be starting with resiliency but will be doing a lot more with the overall health security strategy if our resources allow.