Public health

The goal of public health nursing is to prevent disease and promote the health of people and the community. A key component in this is epidemiology. What surprised me most is how critical epidemiology is to public health nursing. Epidemiology is generally concerned with quantifying things like injuries, disability, morbidity, and mortality. For me, these numbers never showed importance. They were just another static in a reading to brush over. Nursing was always about putting a face to that…

Transportation has a central bearing on public health. In the recent years, there has been a major concern on the rising cost of health care across the world. Statistics indicate that over 40 percent of the provincial budget in the United States is allocated to the health care sector. The cause and ways to mitigate diseases has been of great importance to policy makers. In fact, research indicates that a large extent of the diseases which pause a threat to public health are chronic and can be…

1. What are the three core functions of public health? The three core functions of public health are assessment, policy development, and assurance. The assessment helps in monitoring a environmental and health status to help identify and solve, community environmental and health problems. It provides surveillance for diseases/injury by systematically collecting, monitors trends; analyzes the causes, and identifies the needs to make available information on healthy communities. Policy…

This report will discuss the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2015-2019 that aims to reduce avoidable burden of disease/injury so all individuals health and wellbeing is improved. The priority areas within the plan will be listed, with ‘healthier eating and active living’ being the main focus. Several at-risk population groups targetted in the plan will be mentioned, with low socio-economic groups specifically being discussed. The determinants of health will also be explored in the…

communities, and societies. I have always expressed the importance of a healthy environment. Working for a Doctor who has her masters in public health has given me the upper hand and much insight on the possibilities I will have with this field. Her concentration is gerontology and she focuses on the longevity of her elderly patients. I decided early on that health promotion and behavior is important to me because I want to promote healthy behaviors and promote healthy habits and impacting…

References Gerst-Emerson, K., & Jayawardhana, J. (2015). Loneliness as a public health issue: The impact of loneliness on health care utilization among older adults. American Journal of Public Health, 105(5), 1013-1019. doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302427 This article states that loneliness is one of the biggest issues for older adults. Loneliness can be tie to more health care issues and utilization of the health care facilities. They go on to state that a lot of elderly patients visit their doctors…

distance to shops and consumers, many conflicts arose. A great concern of exchange of diseases between human and animals emerged. In Hardy’s scholarship, Pioneers in the Victorian province: veterinarians, public health and urban animal economy, it presented various factors of improving public health. With the presence of veterinarians, and meat inspectors, they seek to control the diseases threatening to attack the immune system, leaving humans vulnerable and sickly. Animals were part of daily…

I majored in Public Health, because I simply wanted to help make somebody else life a little more better. I knew since I was little that I wanted to be somewhere in the health field, but I was not sure where. Hands on medicine I knew I couldn’t handle, so that just left me working behind the scene, but still saving somebody life. With this degree I could work at so many jobs at the government or non-government organization level. My first dream place to work at is the Center for Disease Control…

As a Public Health major, it is required to take the Consumer Health and Public Health class. Before taking this class, I thought I will learn only about the issues that related to the food safety or regulation in this country. However, this class covered deeper than my expectation. This class did not teach me only about food safety or regulation, but it taught me about the health care management, health insurance, health services and products, doctor-patient communication, traditional vs.…

I think I fell in love with the idea of a career in public health before I ever even knew what public health was. Upon entering my undergraduate career, I had a profound passion for the medical field and had hopes of pursuing a medical degree. Although I have always had a large-hearted ambition for helping others and a dedication to the medical field, the more classes I took at the collegiate level, the less passionate I became about the life I had previously envisioned. I was continuously…