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Lecture 4

Public Health
Dr. Ahmed Howilah
Consultant of Community medicine
Assistant Professor of Dental Public Health &
Prosthodontics
Public Health:

 The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and

promoting health through the organized efforts and informed

choices of society, organizations, public and private communities,

and individuals.

 The Vision of Public Health:

Healthy People in Healthy Communities


 The Mission of Public Health: Public health aims to provide

maximum benefit for the largest number of people (WHO). Promote

physical and mental health and Prevent disease, injury, disability

 Public health aims to provide groups of people with the right to be

healthy and live in conditions that support health.

 This means that public health aims to create the right conditions in

order to provide this state of health for the benefit of society.


 A Public Health Approach:

Surveillance (what is the problem?)

Risk Factor Identification (what is the cause?)

Problem

Intervention Evaluation (what works?)

Implementation (how do we do it?) Response


Core Components of Public

Health:
Assessment: Systematically collect, analyze, and make available

information on healthy communities.

Policy Development: Promote the use of a scientific knowledge

base in policy and decision making.

Assurance: Ensure provision of services to those in need.


Essential Public Health Services:

1. Monitor Health

2. Diagnose and Investigate

3. Inform, Educate, Empower

4. Mobilize Community Partnership

5. Develop Policies

6. Enforce Laws

7. Link to/Provide Care


8. Assure a Competent Workforce

9. Evaluate

10. Research
Public Health

Functions:
Surveillance, analysis and evaluation of population’s health status:

 Monitor health status to identify population or community health

problems.

 Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in

the community.

 Monitor environmental and health status to identify and solve

community environmental health problems.


 Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and

health hazards in the community.

 Act as quickly as possible with efficacy in solving and improving

these problems.

Develop policies and plans that support individual and community

health efforts :
 Once the health problem is identified, public health seeks the best

interventions and strategies to solve the public health problem and

identify health and/or social actors or agents that can be carried

out in the best way possible .


Health Promotion:

 This is a public health function that tries to promote the health of

the population, educating in health from the different health,

education and mass media facilities.

 Promoting evidence-based actions on the determinants of health;

Fostering national, community and individual attitudes, knowledge

for healthful living practices; Promoting policies and standards

conducive to good health; Promoting legislative, regulatory, social

and environmental measures that reduce individual and community


Disease Prevention :

There are two strategies to address diseases prevention, the high risk

approach an the population approach:

High risk approach: The high risk approach is aimed at individuals

particularly predisposed to an illness and an individual prevention manner

is offered to them.
Population approach: The population approach attempt to control the

factors of the population as a whole without focusing on a specific

collective matter.
To develop effective programs and health facilities to protect health :

The development and implementation of programs that promote health

improvement of the population as a whole, with the condition that they

are based on efficacy scientific evidence based and that they help to

increase the population’s quality of life.


Evaluation of public health policies, strategies and facilities:

Having just implemented, whatever process included in society to solve

or improve the health problems must be evaluated, to check its right

performance and functioning and analyze if it is associated with an

improvement of the health problems for which were developed.


Important fields of public

health:
Epidemiology: is the cornerstone science of public health defining the

causes, distribution, and prevention of disease and disability.

Biostatistics: Biostatisticians extract meaning from big data, leading us

to quantifiable evidence used by all public health disciplines.

Environmental Health Sciences: examines our environment to explain

how it contributes to health.

Sociomedical Sciences: is called upon to explain and alleviate the burdens

of ill health.
Epidemiology: is the cornerstone science of public health defining the

causes, distribution, and prevention of disease and disability.

Population and Family Health: studies the unique issues that affect

health for the most vulnerable, including children, refugees, and

expectant mothers.

Health Policy and Management: evaluates health systems to build

knowledge of how nations and local organizations can deliver more health

at lower cost
Determinants of

Health:
 Genetic factors

 Behavioral factors

 Social factors

 Environmental factors

 Personal health care


 Public Health……..

 Prevents epidemics and the spread of disease.

 Protects against environmental hazards

 Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery

 Prevents injuries

 Promotes healthy behaviors

 Assures the quality and accessibility of health services

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