HE302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Occupational Safety And Health, Health Promotion, Reproductive Health
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Public health: concerned with protecting health of populations; emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion. Population health: a unified effort of prevention + health promotion + health protection, diagnosis, treatment, and care of peoples; integrating and balancing the aforementioned interventions. Health promotion: process of implementing interventions that enable people and communities to increase control over and to improve their health . including promoting healthy behaviours, creating supportive environments, and encouraging healthy public policies (pho, 2020) Definitions of public health have changed over the years. Health in western industrialized countries develop: mandatory public health (e. g. immunizations, use broad definition of health to include more than physical well-being and the absence of disease. Declaration of alma ata (1978: expressed need for urgent action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to protect and promote the health of all people. First international declaration underlining the importance of primary health care.
