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Flashcards in What is Public Health Deck (5)
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1
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What does health promotion do

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  • To provide people with the opportunity for better health
  • To educate people on potential harms to their health
  • To organise ways for people to eat well, be more active, stop smoking cigarettes
2
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Define health promotion

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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health

3
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What is the aim of health protection

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  • Protect the public from hazards, keep water running and restaurants open
  • Run the public health response to emergencies
  • Prevent and control infectious diseases
4
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What things matter to peoples health

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  • money
  • housing
  • food
  • family and friends
  • community
  • skills and jobs
5
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What does public health focus on

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  • the determinants of this persons health
  • prevention strategies
  • how to deliver health services to meet the needs of different populations
  • inequalties in health outcomes
  • infectious and non-communicable disease epidemiology; extent, causes and impacts of diseases