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May 16, 2024 · The revised 10 Essential Public Health Services Framework. The revised EPHS framework was released on September 9, 2020. It was a collaborative effort by the Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI), now the PHAB Center for Innovation, the de Beaumont Foundation, and a task force of public health experts, leaders, and practitioners.
- Introduction
- Three Goals of Public Health
- A Population Approach to Autonomy
- Reasons For Integrating The Traditional Goal
- A Rough Model For Integrating The Competing Goals
- Applying The Model
- Justifying The Model
- Concluding Remarks
The notion ‘public health’ may be taken to refer to either a state of something called ‘the public’ (as when public health authorities announce that the public health of a country or region is good, declining, on the rise, etc.), or to a certain societal practice that deals with the former. Henceforth, I will be speaking about the latter when talki...
The traditional goal of Public Health is the promotion of population health.3 Besides noting two key ingredients, I will not go very deeply into what is involved in this goal, partly because it should be rather familiar.4 First, population health in this context is the idea of an aggregate of individual health levels, states, trends etc., and is th...
The most basic problem noted above seems to be the tension between the population perspective of Public Health and the individualistic perspective of traditional medical ethical notions of autonomy. A primary task for anyone who wants to bring the additional goals into the goal structure of Public Health thus seems to be to demonstrate how this can...
As mentioned in a footnote above, the actual adoption of this new kind of goal for Public Health seems to have had caused some unease among Public Health professionals. Comments from this group on the new goal structure do their best to describe the new goal as a small variation on the traditional goal, which mainly introduces a supplementary idea ...
Based on the conclusion of the preceding section, my suggestion is that just as it was needed to integrate the autonomy and equality goals, also the resulting integrated additional goal and the traditional goal of promoting population health need to be integrated. The result of this is an integrated, multidimensionalgoal structure that allows for c...
In spite of the claim above that one of the points of the integrated, multidimensional model is that it is normatively open, there are obviously some ideas about the goals of Public Health that are ruled out by it. In particular, the two ideas discussed earlier, that the traditional or the integrated additional goal should be the solegoal of Public...
The integrated multidimensional model of the goals of Public Health may, as indicated, be justified in three separate ways. One of these is to see the model as a conceptual framework fit for describing and comparing actual goal-structures for Public Health in different areas, countries, regions, etc. from an ethical point of view. The justification...
I have argued above that the integrated multidimensional model can handle most of the ethical challenges directed at the traditional goal of Public Health, the suggested additions of the goals of autonomy and equality, as well as a goal integrating both of the latter two. I have furthermore suggested that this model can be of use both for ethics—de...
- Christian Munthe
- 2008
Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations.
For health emergencies, we: prepare for emergencies by identifying, mitigating and managing risks. prevent emergencies and support development of tools necessary during outbreaks. detect and respond to acute health emergencies. support delivery of essential health services in fragile settings. For health and well-being we:
A timeline of key public health milestones, created for the occasion of the World Health Organization’s 75th anniversary, serves as a reminder of some of the most memorable successes and how these have contributed to improved health across the world.
Public health aims are achieved through surveillance of cases and the promotion of healthy behaviors, communities and environments. Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. [3] Many diseases are preventable through simple, nonmedical methods.
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Apr 12, 2019 · Acheson’s influential definition from 1988 asserts that public health is ‘the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals’ (Acheson 1988); it effectively captures that public ...
