Public health aims to promote health and prevent disease in populations through systematic efforts. It covers health protection against infectious diseases and environmental threats, health improvement through education and legislation, and optimizing healthcare services. Some key areas of public health include using statistics and epidemiology to analyze population health data, assessing health needs and priorities, developing management and decision-making skills, and practicing health protection, improvement, screening and quality improvement. Public health also addresses challenges like children's health, aging populations, and health inequalities.
This presentation was given for the staff of King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, 11-14 May, 2016
Its content included:
Ethics of public health and health promotion
Ethics of disasters and emergency medicine.
Resource allocation.
DISCLAIMER:
This presentation is based on Hussein GM, Alkabba AF, Kasule OH. Professionalism and Ethics Handbook for Residents (PEHR): A Practical Guide. Ware J, Kattan T (eds). 1st Edition. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, 2015.AND
Training material presented to the East Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) course on Public Health Ethics (Amman, 2014)
A presentation by Karen Nelson, MBA, MSW, RSW, of the Ottawa Hospital, made to social workers at their 2013 Annual Meeting. A very thorough overview with significant research supporting the link between Social Determinants of Health and healthcare outcomes.
India being a developing country with growing population has been traditionally vulnerable to natural and man made disasters.
Development cannot be sustainable unless disaster mitigation is built into developmental process.
Disaster could be a nature calamity, outbreak of disease, bioterrorism, etc.
New Delhi, Feb 23. The health ministry has proposed a bill that seeks to empower state and local authorities to take appropriate actions to tackle public health emergencies like epidemics and bio-terrorism.
Concept and definitions
Health education
Beliefs and approaches in health promotion
Health promotion strategies and priority actions
Public health, social movement, health inequity and millennium goals
Canadian experience in health promotion
Conclusion
This presentation was given for the staff of King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, 11-14 May, 2016
Its content included:
Ethics of public health and health promotion
Ethics of disasters and emergency medicine.
Resource allocation.
DISCLAIMER:
This presentation is based on Hussein GM, Alkabba AF, Kasule OH. Professionalism and Ethics Handbook for Residents (PEHR): A Practical Guide. Ware J, Kattan T (eds). 1st Edition. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, 2015.AND
Training material presented to the East Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) course on Public Health Ethics (Amman, 2014)
A presentation by Karen Nelson, MBA, MSW, RSW, of the Ottawa Hospital, made to social workers at their 2013 Annual Meeting. A very thorough overview with significant research supporting the link between Social Determinants of Health and healthcare outcomes.
India being a developing country with growing population has been traditionally vulnerable to natural and man made disasters.
Development cannot be sustainable unless disaster mitigation is built into developmental process.
Disaster could be a nature calamity, outbreak of disease, bioterrorism, etc.
New Delhi, Feb 23. The health ministry has proposed a bill that seeks to empower state and local authorities to take appropriate actions to tackle public health emergencies like epidemics and bio-terrorism.
Concept and definitions
Health education
Beliefs and approaches in health promotion
Health promotion strategies and priority actions
Public health, social movement, health inequity and millennium goals
Canadian experience in health promotion
Conclusion
Contains bullet-point summary of questions to be asked in medical interview / consultation based on the presenting complaint or system. Contains additional information on clinical reasoning and developing a differential diagnosis
This is a presentation containing all notes for exams on the topic on immunology. It is mainly useful for Cambridge Medical students but some summaries may also be helpful for others!
This is a collection of instructions or marking sheets for medical examinations in medical school. The document contains one-page overviews of 13 examinations:
Abdomen, cardiovascular, respiratory, peripheral neural, periperal vascular, gait-arms-legs-spine (GALS), groin, thyroid/neck, breast.
DEFINITION
“Actions directed to preventing illness and promoting health to reduce the need for secondary or tertiary health care.
Mosby’s Medical dictionary, 8th edition, 2009
“The action of stopping something from happening or arising”.
Oxford English Dictionary. Lexico 2020
GOALS OF PREVENTION
To promote health
To preserve health
To restore health when it is impaired
To minimize suffering and distress
Successful prevention depends upon:
a knowledge of causation
dynamics of transmission
identification of risk factors and risk groups
availability of prophylactic or early detection and treatment measures,
LEVELS OF PREVENTION
1) Primordial Prevention
2) Primary Prevention
3) Secondary Prevention
4) Tertiary Prevention
PRIMORDIAL PREVENTION
It is the prevention of emergence or development of risk factors in countries or population groups in which they have not yet appeared.
Main intervention is through individual and mass education.
Eg: Efforts directed towards discouraging children from adopting harmful lifestyles.
PRIMARY PREVENTION
“Primary prevention can be defined as the action taken prior to the onset of disease, which removes the possibility that the disease will ever occur.”
Intervention is in the pre- pathogenesis phase of a disease or health problem.
The WHO has recommended the following approaches for the primary prevention of chronic diseases where the risk factors are established: –
A) Population (mass) strategy
B) High -risk strategy
SECONDARY PREVENTION
Definition
“ An Action which halts the progress of a disease at its incipient stage and prevents complications.”
Modes of intervention – Early Diagnosis and Specific treatment
The health programmes initiated by governments are usually at the level of secondary prevention.
Advantages:
Important in reducing the high mortality and morbidity of certain diseases like hypertension, cancer cervix and breast cancer.
Disadvantages:
More expensive and less effective than primary prevention.
Patient is already subjected to mental anguish, physical pain;
TERTIARY PREVENTION
It is defined as “all the measures available to reduce or limit impairments and disabilities, and to promote the patients adjustment to irremediable conditions”.
It is the intervention in the late pathogenesis phase.
Treatment, even in late stages of disease, may prevent sequelae and limit disability.
Modes of Intervention - Disability limitation and Rehabilitation.
MODES OF INTERVENTION
“Intervention” can be defined as any attempt to intervene or interrupt the usual sequence in the development of disease in man.
5 modes of intervention
1. Health promotion
2. Specific protection
3. Early Diagnosis and treatment
4. Disability limitation
5.Rehabilitation
CONCLUSION
To initiate preventive measures it is not necessary to know everything about natural history of the disease.
Main objective of preventive medicine - to intercept or oppose the “cause” and thereby the disease process
Η διαχείριση των μειζόνων συμπεριφορικών παραγόντων κινδύνου στην ΠΦΥEvangelos Fragkoulis
Παρουσίαση μου στα πλαίσια του Consensus Meeting: "Η διαχείριση και ο έλεγχος των Μείζονων Συμπεριφορικών Παραγόντων Κινδύνου για την Υγεία: η συμβολή νέων "εργαλείων" για την αντιμετώπιση τους", Ελληνική Επιστημονική Εταιρεία Οικονομίας και Πολιτικής της Υγείας, Ξυλόκαστρο 6-8 Ιουλίου 2018
Healthy People 2020Healthy People was a call to action and an.docxpooleavelina
Healthy People 2020
Healthy People was a call to action and an attempt to set health goals for the United States for the next 10 years.
Healthy People 2000 established 3 general goals:
Increase the span of healthy life.
Reduce health disparities.
Create access to preventive services for all.
Healthy People 2010 introduced 2 general goals:
Increase quality and years of healthy life.
Eliminate health disparities.
Practical Policy for Preventive Services
The U.S. health care system faces significant challenges that clearly indicate the urgent need for reform.
There is broad evidence that Americans often do not get the care they need even though the United States spends more money per person on health care than any other nation in the world.
Preventive care is underutilized, resulting in higher spending on complex, advanced diseases.
Practical Policy for Preventive Services
Patients with chronic diseases too often do not receive proven and effective treatments such as drug therapies or self management services to help them more effectively manage their conditions.
These problems are exacerbated by a lack of coordination of care for patients with chronic diseases.
Reforming our health care delivery system to improve the quality and value of care is essential to address escalating costs, poor quality, and increasing numbers of Americans without health insurance coverage.
Why policies need to be developed?
Basic needs are not being met (e.g., People are not receiving the health care they need)
People are not being treated fairly (e.g., People with disabilities do not have access to public places)
Resources are distributed unfairly (e.g., Educational services are more limited in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty)
Why policies need to be developed?
Current policies or laws are not enforced or effective (e.g., The current laws on clean water are neither enforced nor effective)
Proposed changes in policies or laws would be harmful (e.g., A plan to eliminate flextime in a large business would reduce parents' ability to be with their children)
Existing or emerging conditions pose a threat to public health, safety, education, or well-being (e.g., New threats from terrorist activity)
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Gordon's functional health pattern includes 11 categories which is a systematic and standardized approach to data collection.
List of Functional Health Patterns
1. Health Perception – Health Management Pattern
describes client’s perceived pattern of health and well being and how health is managed.
2. Nutritional – Metabolic Pattern
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Introduction to Public Health PracticePrevention Health Servic.docxvrickens
Introduction to Public Health Practice
Prevention Health Services
Program Name
Faculty Name :
Date:
Subject Code:
Module No. 4 – Public Health & Health Systems
School of Public Health
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Objective
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At the end of this module, the students should be able to
Describe the health system as a public health concern
Discuss Natural history of disease
Identify and describe the levels of prevention and modes of intervention
Learning Outcome
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The students will acquire knowledge about the natural history of disease as well as the modes of intervention and will be able to apply this knowledge for the prevention of health problems in the community
Content
Public health system
Natural History of Disease
Levels of prevention
Modes of intervention
Health services pyramid
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Public health system
Relationship between public health and other health activities has never been clear.
Different views prevail among health professionals
Public health is part of the health system or the health system is part of public health?
Most components serve the same ends
The term health system refers to all aspects of the organization, financing and provision of programs and services for prevention and treatment of illness and injury.
The public health system is a component of this larger health system.
Public commonly perceives the health system to include only medical care and treatment aspects of the overall system.
However, public health activities are part of larger set of activities that focus on health, well-being, disease and illness.
Some questions to brainstorm
Does the countries have a rational strategy for investing its resources to maintain and improve people’s health?
Is the current strategy excessive in ways that inequitably limited access to and benefit from needed services?
Is the health system accountable to its end-users and ultimate payers for the quality and results of its services.
The issues of health,
Excess
access,
Accountability
and quality
Make the health system a public health concern
Prevention and Health service
Health and illness are dynamic state that are influenced by a wide variety of biological, environmental, behavioral, social and health services factors acting through an ecological model.
The complex interaction of these factors results in the occurrence or absence of disease or injury.
Which in turn contributes to the health status of individuals and populations.
Prevention and Health services
Before we go to prevention, its necessary to understand the Natural history of disease.
The nineteenth-century revolution in thinking brought about by Koch and Pasteur led to the recognition of distinct stages in the development of a disease.
If left untreated, a disease would evolve through a series of stages that characterize its natural history
But if an intervention is applied, the natural history is modified, producing a typical clinical course for the condit ...
Occupational therapists are well situated to work collaboratively with communities to identify needs, develop implementation strategies, and deliver health services and programs.
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2. What is Public Health
Public Health is the science of promoting health, preventing disease
and premature death of a population by systematic efforts of society,
communities or individuals, usually in the presence of limited financial
resources. It covers three key areas (but overlapping):
● Health protection - protection against infectious diseases and
environmental threats
● Health improvement - target individual behaviour or promote health
by education, legislation
● Health-care services - provide, analyse and improve/optimise
health-care services
3. Classification of Public Health Topics
1. SCIENTIFIC TOOLS used in public health
2. Common ANALYSES carried out in public health
3. EXECUTIVE SKILLS required in public health
4. THE PRACTICE of public health
5. SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS of public health
4. 1. Scientific Tools in PH
● Statistics
Analysis of large quantities of data to infer trends.
● Demography (Chapter 2 of PH book)
Analysis of size, structure and distribution of populations.
● Epidemiology (Chapter 3 of PH book)
Analysis of factors that determine or describe health and disease, such as incidence and
distribution, risk factors, as well as control of disease.
● Evidence-based approach (Chapter 5 of PH book)
Evidence-based practice is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best
evidence to inform decisions and procedures. It consists of integrating individual expertise
with the best available external evidence from systematic research in order to improve
outcome.
5. 2. Common Analyses in PH
● Health status of a population (Chapter 4 of PH book)
A survey/study of a population’s health carried out by creating a health
profile, i.e. statistically analysing mortality, morbidity and the factors affecting
health and disease in the population of interest, including inequalities.
● Health needs assessment (Chapter 5 of PH book)
Health needs assessment is a systematic analysis of the health issues facing
a population leading to agreed priorities and resource allocation that will
improve health and reduce inequalities. Action is taken where measures have
a high/the highest impact, where changes are acceptable and can be
integrated into current practice, and are feasible in terms of resource
implications.
6. 3. Executive Skills in PH
● Management (Chapter 1 of PH book)
Developing and implementing public health measures requires
management and leadership skills, as does individual clinical practice.
Managing health-care services mainly consists of managing change.
● Decision making / Prioritisation (Chapter 7 of PH book)
Due to limited resources, one has to decide which public health
measures or clinical practices should be prioritised. This requires
identification of the health needs, analysis of the effectiveness of existing
services, economical evaluation, and ongoing assessment of the success
of any decision implementation as a basis for future improvements.
7. 4. Practice of PH
● Health improvement (Chapter 8) Carried out by directors of PH in PCTs, +nat. programs*
Health improvement comprises preventative measures and strategies for health promotion with the goal of
improving population health, at an individual or population level. Prevention is facilitated by targeting
individual behaviour in order to avoid contraction or manifestation of a disease or limit its outcome. Health
promotion targets the entire population through education, legislation, community development and sound
public policy regarding the prerequisites of health.
● Health protection (Chapter 10) Carried out by National Health Protection Agency
Health protection entails the disciplines and services that protect members of the society from infectious
diseases or environmental threats to their health, such as radiation, chemicals, contamination of resources,
dangers at the workplace, industrial accidents, natural disasters and terrorist acts. It aims to control threats
by developing national, local or individual policies for vaccinations, isolation procedures or emergency
protocols and carries out surveillance of health threats, in order to allow rapid response in case of an
outbreak.
8. 4. Practice of PH ctnd.
● Screening (Chapter 9)
Screening is systematic testing of a defined population/sub-group for risk factors or signs of an illness in
its pre-symptomatic, symptomatic or established stage, with the aim of prevention or a reduction in
morbidity and/or mortality. Action will be taken regarding those individuals who are more likely to be
helped than harmed by further investigations or treatment.
● Improving Quality of Care (Chapter 11) Carried out by directors of PH in PCTs, +nat. programs
Quality is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the
likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. Quality is
then evaluated according to criteria (e.g. Donbedian’s criteria of evaluation), in order to detect problems,
which can be tackled with tools of regulation, dissemination of best practice, market incentives or system-
type approaches.
● Health Policy (Chapter 16)
PH policy relates to the decision of governments mainly with regards to health-care but increasingly also
other public health domains. It is less evidence-based and depends on the political context and cultural
values within a society. PH officers/directors are based in primary care trusts and at the Health Protection
Agency but may soon be placed in local governments and a generalised Public Health Authority.
9. 5. Challenges of PH
● Children’s Health
● Women’s Health
● Adults Health
● Health of the Ageing Population
● Inequalities
● International Development
● Sustainable Development