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Public health refers to "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to health based on population health analysis. The population in question can be as small as a handful of people, or as large as all the inhabitants of several continents (for instance, in the case of a pandemic). The dimensions of health can encompass "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity", as defined by the United Nations' World Health Organization. Public health incorporates the interdisciplinary approaches of epidemiology, biostatistics and health services. Environmental health, community health, behavioral health, health economics, public policy, insurance medicine and occupational safety and health are other important subfields.
The focus of public health intervention is to improve health and quality of life through prevention and treatment of disease and other physical and mental health conditions. This is done through surveillance of cases and health indicators, and through promotion of healthy behaviors. Examples of common public health measures include promotion of hand washing, breastfeeding, delivery of vaccinations, and distribution of condoms to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
In this video, Dr Greg Martin takes a look at the question, "what is public heath?" and also considers what it is that public health professionals do including research and surveillance and actions to prevent disease and improve access to care and treatment. This is a useful video for people wanting to work in public health. If you're considering a career in public health and want to know a little more about what a job in public health might look like, then take a look...
For more information on Public Health click on links below: Faculty of Public Health: http://www.fph.org.uk Public Health England: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england Health Education Wessex: http://www.wessexdeanery.nhs.uk/public_health.aspx Public Health Online Resource for Careers, Skills and Training http://www.phorcast.org.uk
Viruses and other infectious diseases, like Ebola, are some of the main threats to our increasingly interconnected world. Rachel asks how we can pick up infections at the onset of symptoms and provide an early warning system. Rachel McKendry is Professor of Biomedicine and Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL. She is Director of i-sense, an EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary research collaboration to develop global early-warning systems for infectious diseases such as pandemic influenza, MRSA and HIV by combining self-reported symptoms on the web with low-cost mobile phone-connected diagnostic tests. -- TEDxExeter 2015 took the long view both back into the past and ahead into the future. We asked our speakers to help us understand the challenges that face us now -...
When Lissa Rankin, MD researched what optimizes the health of the body and what predisposes the body to illness, she was surprised by what she found. When asked "What's the greatest risk factor for disease?" she found that perhaps it's not our diet, our exercise regimen, the absence of bad habits like smoking, or genetics that most profoundly affect the health of the body. To her surprise, she found that scientific evidence suggests that loneliness may be the greatest public health issue few people are talking about. We are tribal beings, and when we feel lonely, our nervous systems sense a threat, activating stress responses that predispose the body to illness. When we come together in conscious community, our nervous systems relax and the body's self-healing mechanisms activate, which ma...
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health — an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools — to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, ...
People with various jobs in the public health industry describe their positions.
Welcome to the https://YourSchoolMatch.com/ College Degree video series. Today we are going to cover 5 careers for a Public Health Degree. From Epidemiology to Health Administration, a graduate with a Public Health degree will discover various career opportunities available. Let's take a look at 6 health careers: First is Occupational Health and Safety Specialists Who inspect various work environments and work procedures to make sure employees are adhering to regulations on safety, health, and the environment. They even design programs to prevent disease or injury in the workplace as well as damage to the environment. These specialists earn $64,660 per year. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/occupational-health-and-safety-specialists.htm Next up: Epidemiologists The prevention of...
Public health problems are diverse and include infectious diseases, chronic diseases, emergencies, injuries, environmental health threats, and more. Learn about public health’s role in smoke-free laws, disease tracking, and hurricane disaster response. Find out how focusing on the health of groups of people has made our lives longer, prevented early deaths, and continues to make us healthier. This video also introduces the Public Health Impact Pyramid as a framework to improve health. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/videos/public-health/PH101-Intro-To-Public-Health__wmv_48Kps.wmv
May 2012 -- In our video series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Here, Allison Martin, a surgeon who earned her MPH in 2012, talks about how her interest in public service led her to pursue both a degree in medicine and in public health.
Ethical Challenges in Public Health Interventions: Catastrophic a
The Nexus of Quality of Life, Social Resilience and Health – Related Technologies The panel explores the relationship between sports, performance and quality of life. A society’s adaptive and transformative capacities are key to its long-term wellbeing and particularly to the quality of life of its people, whether measured in access to public health and utilities services, infrastructure or transportation. Innovative ways to build social resilience, either at the level of local communities or in large urban centers require a mix of policy design instruments and cross-sector information campaigns and research. One dimension of these platforms relates to internet-based analytics platforms designed to reveal health risk factors worldwide. Quantifying health – related devices and technologie...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B01AZ4VDYW/book Lawrence O. Gostins seminal Public Health Law is widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this bold third edition, Gostin is joined by Lindsay F. Wiley to analyze major health threats of our time such as chronic diseases, emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, natural disasters, opiod overdose, and gun violence. The authors draw on constitutional law, administrative law, local government law, and tort law to develop their conception of law as a tool for protecting the publics health. The book creates an intellectual framework for modern public health law and supports that framework with illustrations of the scientific, p...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B00716RCY8/book Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status. Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over smoking regulation. The nations discussed in this bookaustralia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United Statesrestrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where smoking is permitted. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individ...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B00EZ3VKZC/book The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct. Utilising criminal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its use raises a number of complex questions that merit exploration. This examination of the interface between criminal law and public health brings together international experts from a variety of disciplines, including law, criminology, public health, philosophy and health policy, in order to examine the theoretical and practical ...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B00A26DOEQ/book Introduction to Health Care Management is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book that covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and clinics. Filled with examples to engage the readers imagination, the important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources, are all thoroughly covered.guidelines and rubrics along with numerous case studies make this text both student-friendly and teacher friendly. It is the perfect resource for students of healthcare management, nursing, allied health, business administration, pharmacy, occupational therapy, public administrat...
Read your free e-book: http://downloadapp.us/mebk/50/en/B00LS6ZU82/book Public Health Law In A Nutshell provides a fascinating, informative, and concise assessment of the critical role of law in American society to protect the communitys health. Its chapters lay out definitive legal issues underlying core public health powers to prevent and control communicable and chronic conditions like influenza, obesity, cancer, and heart disease. The text also explores legal routes to address sources of public health threats, including tobacco and alcohol use, guns, vehicles, defective products, and the built environment. Understanding the field of public health law encompasses its constitutional sources and limits as well as the many possibilities and pitfalls of historic and modern attempts to regul...
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How public health is the lens to address poverty, violence, discrimination, and injustice. Redefining the role of public health to be the 21st century urban solution and critical social justice tool, in Baltimore and around the world. Recorded at TEDxBaltimore January 2016. As the Commissioner of Health in Baltimore, Dr. Wen has been reimagining the role of public health. She has engaged public health in violence prevention and launched an opioid overdose prevention program that is training every resident to save lives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
Public Health is a broad and evolving discipline. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Postdoctoral Association is pleased to present an overview of the five core areas of public health (epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioral sciences, environmental health, and health policy and management), with an inside peak of special topics from the experts. Participants will learn how to pose a research question and how to develop a study design (epidemiology and biostatistics), learn about gene-environment interactions (environmental health), safety climate research (social and behavioral sciences), and health financing (health policy and management). 1/5: Introduction, case, and background of public health 2/5: Introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics 3/5: Introduction...
www.massmed.org | Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, delivers the 125th annual Shattuck Lecture, sponsored by the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Frieden discussed such issues as controlling antibiotic resistant infections, HIV, TB, vaccine preventable diseases, heroin and opioid abuse, hypertension and tobacco use.
Presented By: Connie Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of Policy Unit: Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health; Arnab Mukherjea, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Francisco; Caroline Peck, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.O.G., Chief of Chronic Disease Control Branch, California Department of Public Health; Abby M. Rincón, M.P.H., Director of Diversity, University of California, Berkeley - School of Public Health; Rob Simmons, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., M.C.H.E.S., C.P.H., Master of Public Health Program Director and Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University - School of Population Health; Denise Woods, Dr.P.H., M.A., Project Manager, University of California, Los Angeles - Fielding School of Public Health Sunday October 13, 2013 11th Annual UC Davis ...
UCI PubHlth 1: Principles of Public Health (Fall 2012). Lec 01. Principles of Public Health -- Introduction to the Course -- View the complete course: http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/pubhlth1_principles_of_public_health.html Instructor: Zuzana Bic, Ph.D. License: Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Terms of Use: http://ocw.uci.edu/info. More courses at http://ocw.uci.edu Description: Introduces the major concepts and principles of public health and the determinants of health status in communities. Emphasizes the ecological model that focuses on the linkages and relationships among multiple natural and social determinants affecting health. Course may be offered online. Recorded on September 27, 2012. Required attribution: Bic, Zuzana. Principles of Public Health 1 (UCI OpenCourseWare: University of Ca...
A revision video for the 19th Century Public Health source based paper of the OCR History GCSE. Here's a video on source questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLSX3AVqJq4 :)
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Dr. Tomas J. Aragón, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, explores the concepts for controlling outbreaks and infectious diseases. As the Health Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, he discusses how an outbreak investigation is conducted and then controlled. Series: "UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine presents Mini Medical School for the Public" [2/2014] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25804]