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Health is:
The absence of disease.
A state that allows the individual to adequately cope with all the demands of daily life.Â
Equilibrium an individual establishes within and between themselves and their social and physical environment.Â
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.Â
Public health is:
The science and art of organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment; the control of communicable infections; the education of the individual in personal hygiene; the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease; and the development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his birthright of health and longevity.
Activities that society does collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy. This includes organized community efforts to prevent, identify, preempt, and counter threats to the public’s health.
What we, as a society, do collectively, to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
Public health promotes and protects the health of all people and their communities. This science-based, evidence-backed field strives to give everyone a safe place to live, learn, work and play.
Core functions of Public Health
- Systematically collecting, analyzing, and making available information on the health of a community.
- Assess and monitor population health.
- Investigate and diagnose hazards and root causes.
- Promoting the use of scientific knowledge in decision making about public health policies.
- Communicate effectively to educate public to strengthen health.
- Strengthen and mobilize communities and partnerships.
- Create, champion, and implement policies.
- Utilize legal and regulatory actions to protect health.
- Ensuring that services necessary to achieve agreed upon public health goals are provided.
- Enable equitable access to health services and care
Build diverse and skilled workforce. - Innovate through evaluation research and quality improvement.
- Build and maintain strong public health infrastructure.
The 10 essential Public Health services
- Monitor health: Assess and monitor population health status, factors that influence health, and community needs and assets.
- Diagnose and investigate: Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the populationÂ
- Inform, educate, empower: Communicate effectively to inform and educate people about health, factors that influence it, and how to improve it.
- Mobilize community partnerships: Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health.
- Develop policies: Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health.
- Enforce Laws: Utilize legal and regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health.
- Link to/provide care: Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy.
- Assure a competent workforce: Build and support a diverse and skilled public health workforce.
- Evaluate: Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement.
- Research: Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health.
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