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• describe the purpose of public health • define key terms used in public health • identify prominent events in the history of public health • recognize the core public health functions and services • describe the role of different stakeholders in the field of public health • list some determinants of health
Public health is essential to all aspects of health and wellbeing and is crucial to reducing health inequalities and influencing the wider determinants of health.
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Mar 18, 2019 · Public health is critical to a healthy, fair, and sustainable society. Realizing this vision requires imagining a public health community that can maintain its foundational core while adapting and responding to contemporary imperatives such as entrenched inequities and ecological degradation.
- Lindsay McLaren, Paula Braitstein, David Buckeridge, Damien Contandriopoulos, Maria I. Creatore, Guy...
- 10.17269/s41997-019-00196-2
- 2019
- 2019/06
3.1 Unpacking the 12 essential public health functions into subfunctions, public health services and system enablers 19 3.2 Defining public health services and system enablers 21
With recent emphasis on creating a stronger, more patient-centred, health system in Ontario, there remains no clear definition of a “public health” system, hindering the ability to integrate preventive public health and health care practices. This study aims to describe public health systems and initiate a research agenda for this field. Methods:
- Tamika Jarvis
- 2017
Public health focuses on the social, environmental and economic factors affecting health as well as on the communities and settings where people gather and live. Because the public health system works to prevent problems before they come up, it is often invisible, and receives little attention from governments until something goers wrong. There ...
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Building health system resilience to public health challenges: guidance for implementation in countries. ISBN 978-92-4-009432-1 (electronic version) ISBN 978-92-4-009433-8 (print version) World Health Organization 2024. Some rights reserved.
