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1. AN INTRO TO
Public Health
An introductory guide to
Public Health
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2. Table of
Contents
1) Introduction
2) What is Public Health?
3) Public Health Dimensions
4) Public Health Approach
5) Healthy People 2020
6) Challenge of Unhealthy Life-Styles
7) Career Prospects of Public Health
Professionals
8) Key Public Health Issues
9) Public Health Career Prospects
10) Why Public Health?
11) Research Area in Public Health

3. Introduction
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4. What is Public Health?
Public health is the science of protecting and improving
the health of families and communities through
promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and
injury prevention and detection and control of infectious
diseases.
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5. Public Health Dimensions
Public health is mainly concerned with protecting the
health of the entire community that can be either
as small as a local neighbourhood, or as big as an entire
country or region of the world.
Public health professionals try to prevent problems from
happening or recurring via :
• Educational Programs
• Recommending Policies
• Administering Services
• Conducting Research
Public health also works to limit health disparities. A large
part of public health is promoting healthcare equity, quality
and accessibility.
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6. Public Health Approach
Human population marks a diversity in the patterns of health
and diseases. Even then, there are significant differences in
the health status between different populations. The
determinants of health at the level of large populations are
often not the same as that in the individual levels.
Mainly , Public Health is meant to :
• Define the health problem
• Identify risk factors associated with the problem
• Develop and test community-level interventions to
control or prevent the cause or the problem
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7. Public Health Approach
Contnd..
Surveillance:
What
is the
problem?
Risk Factor
Identification:
What is the
cause?
Intervention
Evaluation:
What
works?
Implementation:
How do you
do it?
Problem Response
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8. Healthy People 2020
Healthy people 2020 is an objective put forward to:
• Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease & premature death
• Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve
the health of all groups
• Create socio-physical environments that promote good
health for all
• Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy
behaviours across all life stages
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9. Challenge of Unhealthy
Life-Styles
Globalization carries leads to rapidly changing lifestyles. The
separation between domestic and international health
problems is losing its usefulness as people and goods get
immigrated across various continents. More than two million
people cross international borders Per day. In today’s world
we need a shift in awareness towards the idea of building
Global public goods that can help us reap the huge potential
benefits of globalization.
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10. Career Prospects of Public
Health Professionals
Public Health has a good impact on almost every aspect of
Modern life, and graduates may find they have the
opportunity to work for a number of employers and in
various settings. Some of the designations include Public
Health Doctor, Tropical Disease Expert, HIV Specialist,
Medical Director and many more.
Public: Government jobs include health department
administration, public nursing, etc
Non-profit: Jobs in this setting often focus on a particular
population
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11. Key Public Health Issues
Public health challenges are no longer just local, national or
Regional – it has turned out to be a Global Challenge.
Historically, disease in other places was seen as an
impediment to exploration, and a challenge to winning a
war.
More than one fifth of the world's population–are unable
to meet their daily minimum needs. Almost one third of all
children are undernourished.
In many countries, which have experienced economic
growth, increasing inequality means that the poorest part of
population has seen little or none of the benefits from this
growth.
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12. Public Health Career
Prospects
If you’re thinking about entering Public Health field but are
still on the board thinking of whether or not its right for
you,
here are various reasons to ponder Public Health Career :
• Job Growth
• Job Security
• Variety
• Mastery
• Improvising Your Community
• Leadership Opportunities
• Enhancing Food Safety
• Professional Benefits
• Immediate Employment
• Changing the Phase of Healthcare Sector
• Interesting Education & Diverse Coursework
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13. Why Public Health?
Public health is a field for people who care about the
greater
good of human beings. Millions of people are alive today
because of the public health initiatives, like vaccination
programs, motor vehicle safety laws, restrictions on the use
of tobacco, family planning & Other prospects.
If you’re thinking about entering Public Health field but are
still on the board thinking of whether or not its right for
you,
here are various reasons to ponder Public Health Career :
 Job Growth
 Job Security
 Variety
 Mastery
 Improvising
 Your Community
 Leadership
Opportunities
 Job Growth
 Job Security
 Variety
 Mastery
 Improvising
 Your Community
 Leadership
Opportunities
 Enhancing Food Safety
 Professional Benefits
 Immediate Employment
 Changing the Phase of
Healthcare Sector
 Interesting Education &
Diverse Coursework
 Enhancing Food Safety
 Professional Benefits
 Immediate Employment
 Changing the Phase of
Healthcare Sector
 Interesting Education &
Diverse Coursework
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14. Research Area in
Public Health
Public Health has broad range in classified sciences. People
who undertake any degree in Public has wide range of
areas
to research that include:
• global environmental change and health
• genomics and health
• obesity, food, and physical activity
• health policy and systems
• public health implementation science
• social determinants of health
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15. “The doctor has been taught to be
interested not in health but in
disease. What the Public is taught is
that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley Montagu
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